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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes. With authoring software, instructional designers can steer online students through a mixtape of digital content—videos, graphs, weblinks, PDFs, drag-and-drop activities, PowerPoint slides, quizzes, survey tools and so on.

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As College Innovation Efforts Grow, So Do Warnings of a ‘McDonaldization’ of Higher Ed

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He specifically faults measures such as the National Student Survey , a satisfaction poll administered to undergraduates during their final year of study in colleges throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We often ask students to write an essay of 3,000 words on a topic, and it must have six learning outcomes ,” he said. “So

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?Tressie McMillan Cottom on For-Profit Higher Ed, Purdue, and Dream Data Sets

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Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Then yep, we’re on board.”

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7 Ways for Learning Designers to Build Habit-Forming Experiences

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Edtech companies use these buzzwords to describe the next generation of learning tools. Without imposed schedules, proximity to peers, or physical classrooms, even the best-intentioned students never make it through a MOOC or fail to reengage with the educational app they downloaded. “Self-paced.”

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To Better Serve Adult Learners, Eliminate the Barriers Between Work and Learning

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In a national survey , we found that providing academic credit for experience and on-the-job learning was among employers’ top priorities for colleges and universities, alongside other work-integrated learning themes such industry validation and including real-world projects in the curriculum. The bigger market is college and career.

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How to Bring Innovation to Campus Without Cheapening Education

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Yet, at the same time, many college leaders are finding that institutions can learn from tech-savvy companies, especially when it comes to kind of creating a culture of innovation and trying new things. Certainly in Britain, [in] the student satisfaction surveys that students all fill in, they're all quite happy.

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MissionU Says It Can Replace Traditional College With a One-Year Program

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A venture-backed company today announced a new educational offering billed as an alternative to the standard undergraduate experience. Institutions should be accountable to the outcomes of their students,” says Braun, calling the debt burdens shouldered by many college graduates “a massive, massive societal injustice.”

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