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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

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Their attention is also captured by an intense entertainment milieu of movies, TV, video games, comics, and the internet (with more students in the grip of internet addiction , even to mostly text-based sites such as Reddit). One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” “ Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction,” according to MIndwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Kiron and Red Hat have joined edX.

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Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” “Digital badges aren’t replacing the bachelor’s degree any time soon,” Inside Higher Ed helpfully points out. The video platform has raised $165.1 ” Imperial College London has joined edX.

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Fraternity Members Suspended for Racist, Homophobic Video.” ” From the press release : “ Concentric Sky Announces BadgeRank – a New Search Engine for Digital Badges.” Then It Wasn’t.” ” All this at Syracuse University. ” Testing.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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” Via NPR : “ Texas High Schools To Require Police Interaction Education Video.” “ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. SNHU and LRNG are merging “to Create ‘ WeWork for Education ’ Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses.”