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Claire Murray (University of South Australia) talks about research looking at the claims made by EdTech companies and investors about the ‘digital disruption’ of universities.She talks about how the EdTech sector is limited by its focus on the economic value of higher education and promises o 
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Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college.
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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.
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Ginning up ideas isn’t always the hard part in academic innovation. Instead, more and more leaders working on digital initiatives at colleges ar
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Can we imagine a world where postsecondary providers simultaneously impart the most important technical, cognitive and non-cognitive capabilities sought by employers for entry-level positions across a wide range of professions? The answer is yes for both higher education institutions as well as bootcamps.
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This debate begins with a blogpost by Professor Kourosh Kayvani, a Sydney-based structural engineer and director at management consultancy firm Aurecon. His experience includes lead - New Zealand Herald
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From Teach For America to Khan Academy, innovative initiatives have been popping up in the world of education over the last several years, all looking to change — for the better — the way things are done in the field. What is it about the current climate that makes it so ripe for new, big ideas? Rick Hess, Ed.M.'90, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, thinks he knows.
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For nearly 30 years, pundits have predicted that education technology would disrupt higher education. Online courses will reduce costs and create..
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The current narrative of college faculty as resistors to change and innovation is going to shift. It may never have been true to begin with.
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College leaders have much to learn from IBM's response in the 1990s.
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Technology has disrupted the way universities offer courses, the types of skills we will need, and the duration for which we will need them. Here are three things universities must do to survive.
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Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen makes the case for optimism about educational technology.
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Adult education professionals can lay the foundation for next-generation education and lead the way in the next disruption of an entire business sector by encouraging radical innovations in edtech.
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