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Here is The EvoLLLution’s interview with Bonnie Patterson.
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ETS releases a new test to measure students' non-academic skills. Colleges want to use test for advising and finding remedial students with "grit." Delete the scoop?
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Skittish college professors won't stop the digital disruption of higher education. This online educational revolution is the next wave, and it is still very early. Rarely has a societal problem been presented with such an ideal solution. We should embrace it passionately, because it's happening whether we do or not. Delete the scoop?
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Here's a course topic not currently offered by any of the providers of massive open online courses: "The Implications of Coursera’s For-Profit Business Model for Global Public Education." The course was proposed last week by Robert Meister,... Delete the scoop?
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Challenging findings of landmark 2011 study, new data suggest that college students make significantly bigger gains in critical thinking. But differences in methodology may contribute to the differing conclusions. Delete the scoop?
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I am receiving an increasing number of emails from people that have questions about competency-, proficiency-, mastery-, and performance-based education, and I’m sure many of you do as well. Delete the scoop?
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Times Higher Education Some Professors Want Brakes Put on MOOCs The Nonprofit Quarterly Although initial news coverage suggested that Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) were a harbinger of democratic higher education available to all, professors... Delete the scoop?
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The reform will oblige students to opt at age 15 to follow either a vocational or academic course of study, and to pass new exams at each stage of their schooling.
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New concepts include job programs and compressed course loads.
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Despite a year of considerable hype as leading colleges and universities created online partnerships to try to redefine higher education, a recent spate of strong faculty reactions make clear that tradition will not change easily or silently, especially at institutions with a strong history of faculty influence. Citing a variety of reasons, the three universities’ decisions offer a spectrum of reactions to a new wave of online learning and the companies, in this case 2U, that are trying to drive that change.
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Seeking to “reset” a contentious debate about the role of technology in California public higher education, the authors of a new report argue that California policy makers need a statewide approach to end what they call years of isolated, segmented and ineffective online offerings.
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If you're a social media junkie, you and a few million others know what Tumblr is. If not, you might be wondering why Yahoo! would pay a king’s ransom for it.
Alberto Acereda, PhD's insight:
He’s a high school dropout who started the social networking site Tumblr six years ago. On Monday, New Yorker David Karp officially sold the site to Yahoo! for more than $1 billion.
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Twenty-five percent of ACT test takers in 2012 were prepared for college, according to ACT’s 2012 Condition of College and Career Readiness report. Delete the scoop?
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According to data from the Department of Education on college degrees by gender, the US college degree gap favoring women started back in 1978. The concern about gender imbalances and gender equity in higher education is very selective, imbalanced and inequitable – there is only concern when women are under-represented and never any concern when men are under-represented. Delete the scoop?
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The future will be grim if you run one of the 4,100 colleges or universities in the United States and are unwilling to embrace dramatic change. Delete the scoop?
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Study challenges assumption that professors have become more lenient in evaluating students, or that their grades have less "signaling" power. Another researcher challenges paper as inaccurate. Delete the scoop?
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The public is invited to join Sir John Daniel, a world-renowned researcher and theorist in the field of online and distance education, for a presentation, “Making sense of MOOCs and other emerging models in higher education,” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Delete the scoop?
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The first in a series of articles reviewing this look at how the Khan Academy came to be, and why these ideas can truly change education. Delete the scoop?
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Technology, economics and the redefinition of ‘the college experience’ are three forces that will create the most significant changes in higher education. Delete the scoop?
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A new report focused on bridging the gap between higher education and the labor market was published last week. Delete the scoop?
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Half of undergraduate students now get an internship or co-op placement before graduating but where are the jobs?
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For students who really don’t know the score upon arrival, waiting until they’re leaving is just too late. Better to get to them early, so they can appreciate what the academic side of the college can offer before it’s gone.
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When we talk about machine learning being used to automatically grade writing, most people don’t know what that looks like. Because they don’t know the technology, they make it up.
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