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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

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The company, which was started by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and is now one of the most well-funded in the education industry , has always been highly picky about which colleges it works with to develop courses. That means that colleges could use the Coursera software as an alternative to their learning-management system.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. I’ve always thought of the U.S. While here in the U.S.,

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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Now, a couple with similar industry cred has a similar vision—along with plenty of funding. “We We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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How Colleges Can Help Educate the 40-Million-Plus Newly Unemployed

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Before joining JFF, Lexi spent nearly a decade in public service at the federal level, including working on Capitol Hill for six years, and serving as a policy advisor to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. We need to be learning from each other and we need to be doing it all together,” she said.

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In Evolving World of Microcredentials, Students, Colleges and Employers Want Different Things

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Nicola Soares: It definitely depends on the industry. If you look at an industry like healthcare, there's obviously very regulated sort of needs on credentialing and certain types of skills that are in demand. We've been doing that for the last 40 years—with Prior Learning Assessment and with ACE credit recommendations.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

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I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. The promise of ed-tech — now as always: make teaching and learning cheaper, faster, more scalable, more efficient. He went from an F to an A+ without learning a thing."