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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

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Shifting practices regarding grades may inspire students to take risks and study for the sake of learning. In the midst of these trends, we wanted to hear how academic innovation leaders are thinking and feeling about higher education right now. Wendy Schatzberg, director for the center of teaching and learning at Utah Tech University.

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Today's Newsletter: Some Vital Statistics for Educators

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They also predict a decrease in spending on self-paced online learning which would seem to indicate an increase in spending on mediated or teacher directed online learning. As fully functional laptops merge with tablets, this seems a trend that may continue. The complete breakdown is available at Statista.

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

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There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigning aspects of their model, and what types of support they need along the way. Stay tuned! -

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. According to the company’s white paper , EDU tokens will initially cost about $1 USD per 12 EDU tokens.)

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Engrade users can access Knovation’s digital content

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The companies will provide users of McGraw-Hill Education’s Engrade, a learning management and assessment platform for K-12 education, access to the Knovation Content Collection with more than 360,000 online learning resources, including videos, white papers, games, podcasts and articles using a single integrated search.

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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

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They released a white paper yesterday called “Ideas For Designing An Affordable New Educational Institution,” where they lay out a framework for essentially a new class of university that would take advantage of various trends that have emerged in the past few years. There is nothing brand-new in the proposal.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Trends to watch: Chinese investment in ed-tech. ” Trends to watch: investors’ interest in English language learning (software). ” Trends to watch: the demise of journalism. .” ” Trends to watch: investors’ interest in English language learning (software).