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How can you achieve inclusive education? Learn practical strategies to create inclusion at your school with this online course for teachers from QUT. 
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The intensive mode offers opportunities to enhance student learning. It also risks exhausting academics and students, and leaving students behind. But careful design can mitigate these risks.
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Short online courses boost work skills but qualifications are needed to change jobs.
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Learn about the unbundled university, the marketization of higher education and more, with this online course from the University of Leeds.
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Increasing use of technology on campus will erode division between online and offline education, according to Jeff Maggioncalda
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Stackable programmes and courses deliver flexibility and options to the market and allow universities to unlock their breadth of knowledge. Paul Kofman describes a quiet revolution. Technological disruption affects every sector of the economy including education. From TEDx talks on YouTube to edX MOOCs and Udacity nanodegrees, the mode of delivery is increasingly online.
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Prof Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Digital Education, University of Edinburgh gives his views on MOOCs.
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Udacity and some boot camps offer money-back guarantees despite state bans on job-placement promises in higher education. But some say the offers are a form of risk sharing worth considering.
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MOOCs may have been overhyped, but their impact is far from over, says Simon Nelson, of the online-learning provider FutureLearn. And traditional colleges have a huge opportunity if they’re just willing to think a little differently.
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Whether or not Moocs live up to the hype, technology’s impact on universities is real and growing, Stanford University’s John Hennessy tells Ellie Bothwell
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Leading universities will offer fully accredited undergraduate courses online within five years, says the founder of a leading US online university network.
Peter Mellow's insight:
I love the last sentence:
"The hype around Moocs might have faded, but the big impact could be about to begin."
Peter Mellow's curator insight,
July 5, 2016 9:48 PM
I love the last sentence:
"The hype around Moocs might have faded, but the big impact could be about to begin."
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Dr Qian Tang, UNESCO’s assistant director-general for education, highlighted the benefits of online learning and MOOCs.
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Many colleges these days are experimenting with short-form online degrees to try to reach new audiences and offer new options, often at a lower cost
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The online degree market has been one of the fastest-growing and most resilient segments of American higher education over the last two decades
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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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Recently, we reached out to education experts around the world to hear what they considered the most pressing issues facing our sector today. Surprisingly, they all said that little has changed in terms of our most common challenges. What was changing, they agreed, were the innovative ways that the global community has begun tackling them.
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Ten free courses of educational tools so that teachers add skills and competencies to their professional careers.
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Five years and 11 million students on, Anant Agarwal, chief executive of the nonprofit organization, says there is still plenty of innovation to come from the venture and its university partners: “We’re just getting started.”
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News, voices and jobs for education professionals. Optimized for your mobile phone.
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Microsoft’s education team is sponsoring five new online courses designed to help guide K–12 principals, headmasters, superintendents and school leaders through the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation.
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Former MIT dean Christine Ortiz is building a radical nonprofit research institution focused on the intersection of technology and humanity, to increase college access for underprivileged students.
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When faced with challenges, online learners draw on resources from their workstations, diverse online spaces, and their network of friends and family.
