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In Coastal Alaska, 2 Visions for the Future of Higher Education

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“People who do online do so because it fits their busy life,” Kraft says. In contrast, Outer Coast offers liberal arts courses in person, conducted in the style of small-group seminars. It’s inspired by Deep Springs College, a tiny, two-year, private school in California founded a century ago by banking and power-company magnate L.L.

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OPINION: As students return to campus, higher ed must build on what we learned during the pandemic

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Almost everyone admits the potential of online learning, used selectively and wisely. While online classes do not work well for young children, many college courses worked well enough to demonstrate new potential for a post-pandemicfuture. He became Stanford’s first vice provost for online learning in 2012.

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How to balance work and study as a teacher

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According to LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Learning Report, 93 per cent of employees would stay at a company longer if their employers invested in their careers. CPD opportunities for teachers might include: : Workshops, seminars and conferences. Online learning. Professional reading. Mentoring others.

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How Colleges Are Thinking Differently to Serve Adult Students

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Colleges and companies are trying to learn how to attract and educate this large population of current and potential adult learners. Indeed, a 2019 report from the U.S. Audience question]: I'm a representative of an e-assessment platform company [from the Netherlands].

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Sal Khan’s New Online School Wants to Make ‘Mastery Learning’ Global

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Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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Today’s Awkward Zoom Classes Could Bring a New Era of Higher Education

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In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful. It never does.

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

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