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What Online Learning Reveals About Innovation in Higher Education

Edsurge

It was mobile, cheap, and played rock ’n’ roll without parental oversight. The latter, which could offer cheaper, more convenient and more established online courses, experienced user growth. For example, Christensen recalled his $2, staticky childhood transistor radio. But it was exactly what Christensen wanted.

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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

Edsurge

What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? As the group’s new CEO, Stephanie Khurana, put it in an interview with EdSurge this week: “The focus of the mission is to really help postsecondary completion and issues of economic mobility.”

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How Innovations in Voice Technology Are Reshaping Education

Edsurge

Voice, after all, is one of the most natural ways to interface with technology, says Coursera’s Alexander Sanchez. As a senior product manager, Sanchez looks for innovative opportunities to maximize learning experiences across devices and technologies. How do you imagine Coursera students using voice to support their learning?

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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

The Hechinger Report

But advocates for true online instruction say that students’ experience of taking courses on their own schedules over mobile platforms may come back to them later, when they’re ready to move on to graduate or professional educations. Coursera is providing 550 colleges and universities with free access to its online courses.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

Edsurge

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding? Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst. Derek Barkalow, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology A Case Study in Science and Engineering Job Shadowing in High School - Ann Gaudino, Ed.D.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Indeed, young people prefer learning from YouTube than from textbooks — according, ironically, to Pearson. Common Core State Standards.

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