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Stanford University has launched a digital education office with the intent of broadening equity and access to higher education through digital pathways. 
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In the last few years, the education sector has been evolving at pace to take advantage of new technologies to help save costs, meet rising student expectations, and compete with online learning institutions, and rightly so.
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Unit4, a fast growing leader in enterprise applications for service organizations, today released the findings of an independent multi-national research study into the student digital experience around administration. 7 in 10 students would recommend that their university reviews and changes its digital strategy related to student administration. Around one third of students feel student administration systems do not meet their expectations, making them less likely to recommend the institution.
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The cost of a four-year degree has shot up 15X in the past 40 years. Despite the crazy cost, college is still worth it for many folks today. And it's matter of time when certain disruptors start offering real college degree courses for much fewer costs. Here’s My Prediction for How the Disruption Will Play Out. It’s only a matter of time before Coursera and other online disruptors start offering real college degree courses. What happens when you can get a bona fide online college degree—one that confers the exact same benefits of an in-person college degree—for a couple of thousand dollars? The number of kids going to traditional college will crater. And schools will be forced to slash their tuition costs. Many top American colleges are already making this shift. You can get a degree from Ivy League school University of Pennsylvania over the internet now. The best part? Online tuition costs roughly half what you’d pay versus sitting in a lecture hall... even though the course material is identical. Look, we’re barely in the first inning of disrupting education. Who knows, maybe in a few years the likes of Google and Amazon will open up their own colleges. You’ll get trained by Google for free. And when you finish, Google will charge companies to recruit you.
Peter Mellow's insight:
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There are strong social divisions in how young people use digital technology at home, according to international research from the OECD.
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We recently told you about Canada’s blossoming tech scene. Now, some of the world’s biggest education influencers are gathering in Toronto to shape our schools of the future. Andreas Schleicher, a Director at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is just one acclaimed speaker who’ll be tackling themes of big data, gamification, social media, coding and digital culture at … Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Yves Carmeille "Libre passeur"
Patricia Stitson's curator insight,
May 26, 2016 11:35 AM
As emphasized in the excerpt below, I picture this as the old serfdom... Those who are fully digitally literate will live in the castle and those who are not will not. Further, they will be woefully ignorant of what is going on within those walls. We must make being digital not just trendy but instead create a culture where people realize that it is a landscape that has become an intricate part of living on the planet. It is not 'other' and people there are not 'those people' but rather a fully integrated part of humanity.
"“Students unable to navigate through a complex digital landscape will no longer be able to participate fully in the economic, social and cultural life around them,” he explained." 
johanna krijnsen's curator insight,
May 27, 2016 5:58 AM
'Investing in education technology is no longer an option, but a necessity, says the German statistician Andreas Schleicher'
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