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Though the title of this article I wrote says 10 years, it may be more or less (and given the pace of change, I would lean towards sooner rather than later).
If you haven’t read Christensen’s/Horn’s/Johnson’s work re: disruption — such as Disrupting Class and/or The Innovator’s Dilemma — it would be worth your time to do so.…
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Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...PayWizard launches first dedicated payment and subscriber management solution for TV and media industry — from PayWizard
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London, 21 February 2013 – PayWizard, specialists in payment and subscription management, has launched the TV and media industry’s first dedicated, end to end payment and subscription solution.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Professors’ Big Stage – op-ed from the New York Times by Thomas Friedman
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I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?”…
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Some very frustrated reflections after reading:
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While I think MOOCs have a ways to go, I continue to support them because they are forcing higher ed to innovate and experiment more. But the conversation continues to move away from traditional higher ed, as the changes — especially the prices — aren’t changing fast enough.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...College branding: The tipping point — from forbes.com by Roger Dooley
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Change is coming to this market. While there are multiple issues of increasing importance to schools, two stand out as major game-changers.
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Important notes for the boards throughout higher education to consider:
Your institution can’t increase tuition by one dime next year.…
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First, what prompted the questions and reflections that are listed below? For that, I turn to some recent items that I ran across involving the use of robotics and whether that may or may not be affecting employment:
The work of Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee; for example their book Race Against the Machine
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But digital innovation has also changed how the economic pie is distributed, and here the news is not good for the median worker.…
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With thanks going out to Ross Dawson for his recent tweet on this.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...MOOCs for credit — from insidehighered.com by Scott Jaschik
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Two announcements this week suggest that MOOCs — massive open online courses — will increasingly include a route for students to receive academic credit.
Georgia State University announced Tuesday that it will start to review MOOCs for credit much like it reviews courses students have taken at other institutions, or exams they have taken to demonstrate competency in certain areas.…
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