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New Report Sheds Light on Higher Ed’s Innovation Challenges

Edsurge

A new report surveying academic administrators released Wednesday by the Online Learning Consortium and Learning House sheds some insight on innovation challenges at higher education institutions. For some schools, changing times means putting a greater emphasis on online learning.

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How One University is Working to ‘Humanize’ Online Teaching

Edsurge

No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. They share how teaching online can involve a surprising amount of passion—and even some tears. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about your Humanizing Online Learning training course. We talk about things like empathy.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”.

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5 critical considerations for CBE and CBL implementation

eSchool News

Are academic credentials simply assumed to represent relevant learning, or do they actually document and verify competencies with evidence of learning? First and Foremost, Focus on Learning. How do we get from educational “business as usual” to cultural changes, even transformation, that make learning central?

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Making College A Powerful Experience For the Most Marginalized

MindShift

Childcare, work, documentation status, and the many “hoops” students have to jump through to get a college degree are often some of the biggest barriers. They document work experiences related to school, post writings and the readings, and upload everything to an online platform. COMPETENCY BASED LEARNING.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.”