The world is your classroom.
If you and a group of friends are arguing about some piece of trivia and someone says, Let’s look this up on Wikipedia,” and then that person starts to read the information out loud to the group, thus resolving the argument. This represents a microlearning moment. This actually foreshadows a much larger transformation – socialstructed learning.
Continue reading… “The future of education eliminates the classroom”
Watson
IBM achieved a quantum leap in artificial intelligence technology in 2011 when its Watson computer program trounced human champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a three-day Jeopardy! tournament, taking home the million-dollar prize by outscoring the second place competitor by a three-to-one margin.
Continue reading… “IBM’s Watson goes to college”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Last week I went through the process of analyzing how much of what I learned in college that I’m still using today. This ends up being a difficult thing to assess.
Continue reading… “The Half-Life of a College Education”
Apple’s iTunes U
Apple has reached an iTunes milestone. They have announced that the company’s iTunes U courses have topped a billion downloads.
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College graduates who are unemployed and have had to move back in with their parents have become a stock figure of the past few years and is helping to cement the Millennials’ reputation as the “Boomerang Generation.” How many of these graduates are returning to live with mom and dad ((or their aunt or uncle)?
Continue reading… “Exactly how many college graduates live back at home?”
Not all Ph.D. students want a career as a tenured college professor. There are many fields, such as humanities, that spending your life buried in books and papers is the gold standard of success. Data from the National Science Foundation has been broken down on the job market for doctorate holders and we take a look at just what fraction of new graduates were landing jobs in the academy.
Continue reading… “How many Ph.D.’s find academic jobs by graduation?”
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What do startups like Groupon, Twitter, Living Social, and Guitar Hero all have in common? They are all fast-growing startups that built their business on Ruby on Rails. Rails is the best way for beginners to learn how to build their own web applications and it comes with all the advantages of power, agility, and robustness of these top websites.
Continue reading… “DaVinci Coders classes starting April 15th”
Kaplan and Pearson have unveiled their new startup programs.
When it comes to picking an accelerator or incubator programs, ed-tech entrepreneurs will be spoiled by the choices.
Continue reading… “A deluge of new ed-tech accelerators”
Coursera adds 29 universities and institutes to their online venture.
Providers of free online higher education are expanding the ranks of universities that contribute courses to their Web sites. They are also adding many schools from outside the United States.
An increasing number of companies are requiring college degrees.
It used to take just a high school diploma to get a low level job like a file clerk. Today, it takes a college degree: the new minimum requirement for getting even the lowest-level job.
Continue reading… “A college degree is the new high school diploma”
Keyglove
Wearable technologies will be entering mainstream use in four to five years in the classroom. The 2013 NMC/EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Horizon Report for Higher Education has identified some of the trailblazers that are already using wearable technologies in their classrooms.
Continue reading… “7 wearable technologies being developed now”
Educators have known that the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming quicker than anyone imagined. In just 30 days, the largest school system in the U.S. began offering credit for online courses, a major university began awarding degrees without any class time required, and scores of public universities are moving their courses online. The point at which online higher education becomes mainstream is no longer in some fuzzy hypothetical future; the next president’s Secretary of Education will need an entire department dedicated to the massive transition.
Continue reading… “Online education replacing physical colleges at a record pace”
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