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Hand-picked selections of articles, reports, blog posts and events from the last seven days (or so). :: Learning New Lessons I’ve been in the digital higher education arena long enough to sti... Delete the scoop?
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Professor Direct, a new service run by StraighterLine, allows professors to set the price of their online courses, as well as how much time they devote to "amenities" like office hours, online tutorials and responding to students e-mails. 
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One group has been calling its project Exponential Boston, and raising money to launch an inaugural program in mid-2013, aimed at helping education-focused entrepreneurs turn concepts into companies. The core team at Exponential includes EdTech entrepreneur Hakan Satiroglu; Boston University entrepreneurship czar Vinit Nijhawan; and Mark Miller, a banker who often works with EdTech companies. Delete the scoop?
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In the face of disruptive change, higher education needs a new, more innovative business model. Delete the scoop?
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AVNetwork : Although it seems hard to believe, almost 30 years ago the courts were deciding whether it should be legal to record video content for future playback. Delete the scoop?
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And raise a glass to the moron angel investors who created this mess in the first place and now are getting what they deserve. Delete the scoop?
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Even if universities may look well on the surface there is an increasing (and justified) concern that all will change soon. New data and analysis increase the anxiety that the current monopoly of h... Delete the scoop?
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Useful data on college demand, funding and labour market changes. A PowerPoint presentation by Bill Gates... Delete the scoop?
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Content is that which fills something. Service is that which accomplishes something. Content starts with the desires of creators to make things. Servic... Via Jesse Martin Delete the scoop?
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We’re witnessing the end of higher education as we know it. This transformation is being brought on by “MOOCs” — massive open online courses being offered for little or no cost. Delete the scoop?
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If there’s a weak link in digital higher education, it’s instructional media. Too often college students are presented with repurposed text, cheaply and quickly produced by people with ... Delete the scoop?
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Online courses are transforming higher education, creating new opportunities for the best and huge problems for the rest Via StraighterLine 
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If you only paid attention to the higher education establishment and the elite writers of the East and West Coasts, you might think that the most important issue in higher education today is how to provide access to college for more students. Via Alberto Acereda, PhD Delete the scoop?
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Departments at 11 elite universities provide half of the field's tenured and tenure-track professors, according to an analysis of more than 3,000 professors. Delete the scoop?
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Higher education seems to finally be realizing that a much bigger change is needed. Delete the scoop?
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As Pearson - along with the entire textbook publishing industry - rethinks its role in education, one of the company's executives says it could look to build the core competencies of digital content creators like video game giant Electronic Arts. Via Mark Smithers Delete the scoop?
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Remarkably little attention is paid to the quality of digital instructional content in higher ed. In fact, if you were to read the work of writers from the educational technology guild … Con... Delete the scoop?
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Here are four things universities are deathly afraid of: What if the model that “everyone must go to college” stops being pushed by employers and governments? Delete the scoop?
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Every few years, one of my friends from the early days of digital enthusiasm turns up on the media’s radar as a “defector.” Huzzah! The former advocate or progenitor of the Next New Thing has turned into a flaming critic. Perhaps he or she has even issued a jeremiad against the former Great Hope of All Humanity. It’s a turnkey, media-ready narrative, easy to convey and easy for a low-attention reading public to digest: He was for it. Now he’s agin’ it. You can tweet that and have enough characters left over for a haiku.
Jaron Lanier, who emerged into the media spotlight in the early ’90s as the chief spokesperson for Virtual Reality, seems to be having a longer — and more vocal — run at this sort of thing than most. In “Half A Manifesto,” published in Wired (2000), Lanier struck out against what he saw as a cybernetic totalism wherein some techno enthusiasts were laboring to create our nonbiological replacement species. You Are Not A Gadget (2011) went a bit further into “fighting the future,” exploring the ways in which Web 2.0 disruption depersonalized or was economically unfair to “creatives.” The latest chapter of this saga, “What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web,” is the much-ballyhooed portrait by Ron Rosenbaum for Smithsonian Magazine that portrays Jaron as being like a “spy who came in from the cold.”