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Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution

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I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 10 feet away. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture.

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Still, Watters runs deep #EDEN15

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Audrey Watters and Maarten de Laat Education writer and journalist Audrey Watters describes herself as a recovering academic, serial dropout and rabble rouser - her blog also carries the epithet 'trouble maker'. Educational technology is not new, she said, but we must avoid purposeful reinterpretation of history.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent. Teaching portfolios aren’t a new idea.