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Leadership within education is always a challenge, but in the rapidly changing technology landscape we now work in, it seems even more daunting. I've collected some interesting reflections on educational leadership here. Enjoy!
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In 2019, Let’s Bring the Community Back to College.

In 2019, Let’s Bring the Community Back to College. | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology i
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Amazon Taps Stanford Professor, Candace Thille to Lead Internal Professional Learning

Amazon Taps Stanford Professor, Candace Thille to Lead Internal Professional Learning | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
One of the most prominent researchers and critics of how learning technologies are built and used in higher education is joining, temporarily, one o
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School of the Air kids close the books on a tough year under continuing drought

School of the Air kids close the books on a tough year under continuing drought | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
These bush kids have battled one of the driest times that New South Wales has seen, but at least they can be glad to conclude this school year.
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Amazon's Candace Thille on Her First Jobs

Amazon's Candace Thille on Her First Jobs | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
In her job as the director of learning sciences, Candace Thille has found a way to make a job out of the thing she is most passionate about.
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How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face

How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Accessing higher education is critical for many people seeking asylum. It’s not simply a means of acquiring the qualifications and skills necessary for employment. It’s also essential to living a meaningful life
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VCE 2018: Secrets of the ATAR meet the team who calculate the four-digit rank

VCE 2018: Secrets of the ATAR meet the team who calculate the four-digit rank | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Every year a parent phones to ask if their child has achieved a high 99.95 or a low 99.95. "My advice ... is to go and give your child a hug,” a VTAC director says.
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A College Experiment That Really Worked

A College Experiment That Really Worked | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
It shows that many, many more students from modest backgrounds should be attending universities from which they’re likely to graduate — and that getting them to enroll isn’t very difficult. It is a matter of encouraging them to do so and making sure the financial aid remains available.
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A Closer Look at Today’s Innovations: The 2018 #Horizon Report - #EDUCAUSE

A Closer Look at Today’s Innovations: The 2018 #Horizon Report - #EDUCAUSE | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it

The annual NMC Higher Education Horizon Report is a recognized resource that explores emergent areas likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, ...

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Is it time to fall out of love with universities?

Is it time to fall out of love with universities? | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Opinion: Vocational provision languishes as degrees, increasingly, fail to deliver
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How 'Buddy Benches' are making playtime less lonely

How 'Buddy Benches' are making playtime less lonely | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Buddy Benches are proving popular in Irish schools, with a mission to improve the lives of adults as well as children.
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Simon Sinek: Why good leaders make you feel safe

Simon Sinek: Why good leaders make you feel safe | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
What makes a great leader? Management theorist Simon Sinek suggests, it’s someone who makes their employees feel secure, who draws staffers into a circle of trust. But creating trust and safety — especially in an uneven economy — means taking on big responsibility.
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The Dream Act Remains a Distant Dream

The Dream Act Remains a Distant Dream | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
The lack of progress toward a solution can be blamed on the rancid politics of the Trump era.
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Complexity: A Leader's Framework for Understanding and Managing Change in Higher Education

Complexity: A Leader's Framework for Understanding and Managing Change in Higher Education | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Complex adaptive systems offer higher education leaders a framework for understanding dramatic systemic change as well as approaches to engaging, mana
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Schools and Colleges Try Virtual Reality Science Labs. But Can VR Replace a Cadaver?

Schools and Colleges Try Virtual Reality Science Labs. But Can VR Replace a Cadaver? | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
When Case Western Reserve University launches a new health education campus with the Cleveland Clinic next year, one feature will be conspicuousl
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Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students.

Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students. | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Chinese schools are beginning to track students to prevent them from skipping classes or falling asleep in class — and a facial recognition system prevents cheating.
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Higher education policy in 2018: Culture wars reignite, but in the end it's all about the money

Higher education policy in 2018: Culture wars reignite, but in the end it's all about the money | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Tensions between the government and the university sector ran high in 2018, with the government cutting funding to student places and research and a big push back from universities.
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Trump’s School Safety Commission Targets Anti-Discrimination Rules, Not Guns

Trump’s School Safety Commission Targets Anti-Discrimination Rules, Not Guns | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Trump's school safety commission recommended the rescission of Obama-era discipline guidelines that had aimed to reduce racial discrimination
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UTS to open Australia's first Indigenous residential college

UTS to open Australia's first Indigenous residential college | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
UTS will build an indigenous residential college to encourage more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to go to university
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Japan's Juntendo University admits rigging interviews to keep women out

Japan's Juntendo University admits rigging interviews to keep women out | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Juntendo University is the latest school to admit it made entrance interviews harder for women to pass, saying it was because females were more mature and had a natural advantage against young male applicants who needed to be rescued.
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Dx: Digital Transformation of Higher Education | EDUCAUSE

Dx: Digital Transformation of Higher Education | EDUCAUSE | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Digital transformation (Dx) is a cultural, workforce, and technological shift. It is being driven by technology trends and changes that include advances in analytics, artificial intelligence, the cloud, mobile, consumerization, social networks, and storage capacities. Those drivers are enabling a new approach to everything from digital architectures to how campus leaders interact with the IT organization, all with the expected outcomes of new business models, improved student outcomes, different teaching and learning methods, and new research capabilities.
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Netherlands considers creating faculty positions based on teaching, not research metrics

Netherlands considers creating faculty positions based on teaching, not research metrics | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Country plans shift away from evaluating faculty members only on research metrics. Move would also make it possible to be hired on the basis of teaching.
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Matthew Hedges and the Danger of Scholarship in the UAE

Matthew Hedges and the Danger of Scholarship in the UAE | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Matthew Hedges wasn’t the first academic to stand accused of espionage, and he won’t be the last.
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The big idea: one change that could transform universities

The big idea: one change that could transform universities | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
What single change to university practice would have the most positive and far-reaching consequences? Eight academics and thinkers give us their views
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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brother
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Education boost key to Pasifika success

Education boost key to Pasifika success | Educational Leadership | Scoop.it
New Zealand's largest tertiary provider for Pasifika students has launched a strategy to further boost Pasifika success and numbers.
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