In the face of an increasing average student-loan debt and 44 percent for graduates ages 22 to 27 taking jobs that don’t require bachelor’s degrees, it is tempting to question the worth of college education. But rather than throwing out degrees altogether, it is really time to reassess how both education providers and students perceive and participate higher education. Jeff […]
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IRISHMAN Mike Feerick likes to stir things up, writes Andrew Trounson in The Australian. He was running the world’s first massive open online courses before the MOOC acronym was born. And, unlike most MOOCs, his free online education site ALISON is making money. But an even bigger disruptive force is on the way. Feerick calls […]
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http://ift.tt/eA8V8JRyan Lawler, Senior Editor for TechCrunch: Thanks to pretty incredible traction in an industry that historically has been loathe to adopt technology, Clever has raised a new, $30 million round of financing just one year after its last round. The funding is being led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and includes participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital, as […]
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A study following teens who had summer jobs found violent crime in that population almost cut in half, during and following the employment. Cynthia Graber reports for Scientific American: Violence is more than a criminal problem. It’s also a public health issue. More than 6,000 people are injured annually due to violence, mostly young people […]
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Sameer Bhatia, founder and CEO of ProProfs: The biggest obstacle to education in Africa is access. According to UNESCO, nearly one-quarter of children in Sub-Saharan Africa have never been to school or dropped out early. Part of the reason for the large number of uneducated children is the huge shortage of teachers. Of the 1.7 […]
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http://ift.tt/eA8V8JFirst came MOOCs — Massive Open Online Courses — and now universities are experimenting with SPOCs, or small private online classes, better known as “hybrid” or “blended learning,” in place of larger, less personal class structures. The courses offer MOOC-style video lectures along with other online features like course materials in an actual college class. Students […]
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According to recent data from IDC, Google shipped 715,000 Chromebooks to schools in the third quarter. Meanwhile, Apple shipped 702,000 iPads to schools in the same time frame. Chromebooks now account for one quarter of the entire educational market. Laptops running Chrome OS have gone from zero to a quarter of the market in only […]
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An annual report by The Open University said the current key challenge for education specialists is to engage thousands of learners in productive discussions while learning in a collaborative, online environment. The report, Innovating Pedagogy 2014, is the third annual report concerning technological trends that could revolutionize education. It suggests that the next step in the world […]
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Brendan O’Malley, University World News: Universities risk becoming irrelevant and irresponsible if they don’t equip staff to deal with the digital age, said Martin Bean, vice-chancellor of the Open University, in the 2014 Sir John Cass’s Foundation Lecture at the Cass Business School in London. Bean said he wanted to focus his 5 November lecture […]
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In this article, Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of Education and History at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU, reviewes three books on American teaching: The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein; Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) by Elizabeth […]
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