Strategic Plan - 1 views
Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course | Fast Co... - 1 views
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Higher education is an enormous business in the United States--we spend approximately $400 billion annually on universities, a figure greater than the revenues of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter combined
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The man who started this revolution no longer believes the hype.
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If this was an education revolution, it was a disturbingly uneven one.
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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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Teaching Section of US Tech Plan 2016 - 2 views
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They need continuous, just-in-time support that includes professional development, mentors, and informal collaborations.
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roughly half say that lack of training is one of the biggest barriers to incorporating technology into their teaching.
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Institutions responsible for pre-service and in-service professional development for educators should focus explicitly on ensuring all educators are capable of selecting, evaluating, and using appropriate technologies and resources to create experiences that advance student engagement and learning. They also should pay special care to make certain that educators understand the privacy and security concerns associated with technology.
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Donald Clark Plan B: More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years - all drive... - 0 views
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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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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These axioms and postulates may be a starting point for some plans - 0 views
Taught Statistics for many years and investigated much. http://www.textbooksfree.org/Education%20Axioms%20and%20Postulates.pdf http://www.textbooksfree.org/One%20Plan%20to%20Educate%20the%20Class%2...
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