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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

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School Work and Surveillance

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I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. " There is a growing digital proctoring industry that offers schools way to monitor students during online test-taking.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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Not Your Grandfather's Corporate Training: 5 Trends Changing Workforce Learning

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In general, the industries most responsive to these new developments are technology-based ones, usually with a young employee demographic. This year the amount of companies who are now comfortable with employing MOOCs as part of their learning strategy rose by 13 percent since last year to 43 percent in 2016.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” “Can a District Disrupt the Edtech Industry ?” Where Are They Now?”