The History and Future of MOOCs and the New Open Education Week | Spotlight on Digital ... - 0 views
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Technological Advances Demand Adaptation from Public Higher Education | The EvoLLLution - 0 views
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While MOOCS are hardly a step forward pedagogically, they have brought distance learning out of the shadows and into daily discourse about the future of higher education.
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The lines between for-profit and not-for-profit are blurring as partnerships evolve between community colleges offering two-year diplomas and for-profit colleges awarding the bachelor’s degree. For-profit corporations now provide the platform and technical know-how for expanding the reach of not-for-profit master’s programs at many major universities.
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Educational technologies will need to be employed for building new models of learning
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Group of seven major universities seeks to offer online microcredentials | InsideHigherEd - 3 views
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Tentatively dubbed the University Learning Store, the project is a joint effort involving the Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, the University of Washington, the University of California’s Davis, Irvine and Los Angeles campuses, and the University of Wisconsin Extension.
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Reclaiming Innovation Can we reclaim innovation? - 0 views
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what's not to like about innovation?
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Yet as 2014 churns on, the glow is wearing off. Today, innovation is increasingly conflated with hype, disruption for disruption's sake, and outsourcing laced with a dose of austerity-driven downsizing. Call it innovation fatigue.
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Audrey Watters has noted the essentially apocalyptic flavor of what she describes as "the myth and the millennialism of disruptive innovation" — mythic in the sense that it prophesies "the destruction of the old and the ascension of the new" and constitutes a narrative that "has been widely accepted as unassailably true." When applied to education, disruptive innovation promises nothing less than "the end of school as we know it."
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7 competency-based higher ed programs to keep an eye on | Education Dive - 0 views
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ompetency-based education, also known as direct assessment learning, is a sometimes-controversial model that has gained ground in recent months.
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Advocates say competency-based ed puts the focus on students’ capabilities rather than how many hours per week they spend in the classroom. The benefit for employers, they say, is that prospective employees can be judged more easily, based on their demonstrated competencies rather than guessing how their grades will translate to real-world work. By
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In September, an audit by the department’s Office of Inspector General found that the department was not adequately addressing the risks posed by competency-based/direct assessment programs, increasing the likelihood that schools would create programs that didn’t meet criteria to receive Title IV federal financial aid.
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GOOD Video: How Do We Make Learning Relevant to Students? - Education - GOOD - 1 views
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"I wanted to avoid the usual doom and gloom—the usual 'it's all crap and there's no hope for the future,'
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it's about people who are out of the box of education completely who are trying to improve the system."
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pedagogical approach that employs technology that serves new models of learning—and not just for the sake of having the newest gadget in the lab.
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Lumina-funded group seeks to lead conversation on competency-based education @insidehig... - 0 views
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Competency-based education appears to be higher education’s "next big thing." Yet many academics aren’t sure what it is. And that goes double for lawmakers and journalists.
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A new group is stepping in to try to clear up some of the confusion. The nascent Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) will include up to 20 institutions that offer competency-based degrees or are well on their way to creating them.
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A new group is stepping in to try to clear up some of the confusion. The nascent Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) will include up to 20 institutions that offer competency-based degrees or are well on their way to creating them. The Lumina Foundation is funding the three-year effort. Public Agenda, a nonprofit research organization, is coordinating the work.
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Competency-based online program at Kentucky's community colleges @insidehighered - 0 views
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Sometimes potentially “disruptive” approaches to higher education arrive on campuses with little fanfare. And they can become solid additions to traditional colleges rather than an existential threat. Take Kentucky’s two-year college system, which three years ago began an online offering aimed at working adults. The project, dubbed “Learn on Demand,” hits most of the buzzwords du jour, featuring modular courses that lead to stackable credentials, with both self-paced and competency-based elements. All that’s missing is a MOOC.
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Roughly 1,000 students are enrolled in Learn on Demand at any one time, according to officials at the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Many heard about it by word of mouth, and a growing number of the system’s 33,000 online students have been attracted to the convenience of the classes, which can be broken into modules that take as little as three weeks to complete.
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On-campus students have also begun “plugging their schedules” with the courses, says Jay Box, the system’s chancellor.
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