How to Make $60k Tuition Work
Another great flag from Robert Gibson: father of a George Washington University student is suing...
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Category: E-learning
The Letter i wish i would receive from my daughter’s university
The fall term is coming fast and I want you to know that YYY University will support your learning regardless of the status of the pandemic that has upended lives and killed thousands.
Today we are announcing:
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A Simple Metric to Align Higher Education with the Workplace
It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
Read MoreThe Kids Can’t Write? They Write All Day…
Cross-post from 11trees.com… Infographics are often quite silly. They try to boil down complex issues into simplistic graphics, with stick figures and stylized pie charts. The good ones, though, unveil some central truth...
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What Happens When Kids Take Over School: Unschooling the Viking Way
What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
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An Ed Tech Design Manifesto
We don’t always know what we want, or what we’ll really use. Visionaries can see what...
Read MoreWhy Do We Hire Universities?
Two great reads today: Ev William’s, as reported by Wired: “Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company,” he said. “Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long...
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Read MoreMOOC Completion Rates – The Netflixing of Education (Part 1)
A new study reported in Inside Higher Ed takes a dim view to sub-10% completion rates in a sampling of MOOCs. How many people start watching Breaking Bad or Walking Dead on Netflix and don’t get engaged? Technology is...
Read MoreHow Amazon Will Replace Universities
How do we know what anyone knows? For school admissions, for hiring… An experiment in the second category is well under way in US K12. The Common Core has landed, with children and parents boycotting the tough new exams in...
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How much will I earn? How much will I learn? Cost vs. Value of Higher Education in the US
Like the forces of good and evil in a Harry Potter knock-off, educators and stakeholders are...
Read MoreCompetency Craziness: What do Katniss Everdeen and Rodney Dangerfield Have in Common?
My daughter is in seventh grade. She’s reading Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff (and that Homer guy), and enjoying it. She was sitting on a Saturday morning (after a good shot of cartoons) reading – every...
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