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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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a far smaller number grant degrees online. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S.,

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AI Is Everywhere. Now It Wants to Teach You Chinese.

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The once novel technology behind chess- and gameshow-playing computers is all but commonplace today; it’s in everything from medical diagnostic applications to Gmail spam filters—and as some high school and college students are finding out, a new generation of online tools for foreign language learning.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). ” (30). Adult learners don’t appear.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). ” (30). Adult learners don’t appear.

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Meet Two Leaders Trying to Reinvent College

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Our second guest, Ben Nelson, first dreamed of rebooting higher education back when he was an undergraduate at University of Pennsylvania, where he did a research project on how to reinvent higher education. You can watch the complete discussion [coming soon], or hear a podcast version.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency.