Futurist Thomas Frey: A couple years ago I was on a weekend outing in Vail, Colorado and ended up attending a kayaking tournament taking place on the Gore Creek in the heart of town.
72% of MOOC professors don’t think their students deserve college credit
The actual number of professors who discount the quality of MOOCs is probably much higher than 72%.
Seventy-two percent of professors who have taught Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) don’t believe that students should get official college credit, even if they did well in the class. More importantly, these are the professors who voluntarily took time to teach online courses, which means the actual number of professors who discount the quality of MOOCs is probably much higher. The survey reveals the Grand Canyon-size gap between the higher-education establishment and the coalition of tech companies and lawmakers that are mandating college credit for online courses.
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8 free online courses entrepreneurs can’t miss
Entrepreneurs can hop online and hone their expertise for free.
Education for entrepreneurs is slowly but surely becoming more mainstream. Traditional universities are offering entrepreneurs more tools than ever before. But Coursera and Udacity, education startups, have taken this a step further. They are offering in-depth classes on entrepreneurship taught by industry heavy-weights such as Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Steve Blank for free.
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Massive open online courses are transforming higher education and science
MOOCs: Internet-based teaching programs are designed to handle thousands of students simultaneously.
Engineering, science, and technology have at the forefront of the massive open online course movement. These classes also are providing fodder for scientific research on learning.
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Difference in unemployment by level of education
The question of whether college is “worth it” continues to be hot.
Last week, the national unemployment rate fell from 7.9 percent to 7.7 percent after a strong Non-Farm Payrolls report. But the unemployment rate differs greatly for people with different levels of education.
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17% of smart, poor kids apply to the wrong colleges
The majority of high-achieving kids from low-income backgrounds fail to apply to any selective colleges.
Middle-class American high-school seniors with good grades go through a familiar ritual of the college application process each year. The seniors file a bunch of applications. They submit test scores, grades, essays, and letters of recommendation. They apply to a “reach” school or two and a “safety” school or two along with some in the middle. The idea is to see where you can get in and then decide where you want to go after researching both the quality of the schools on offer and the actual financial cost of attending. This system is a bit stressful and annoying, but basically it works. Students get matched with schools that roughly suit their level of academic preparation and people have a chance to shop around a bit for the myriad forms of financial aid that make college attendance feasible.
Welcome to the future of education: Technology is changing the way students learn
Technology will make education even more accessible and more reliable than it has today.
Kevin Kelly told the audience at the 2007 EG Conference for youth and young adults that 10 years ago no one would have believed the Internet was coming, least of all him.
The future of education eliminates the classroom
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.
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The Half-Life of a College Education
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.
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Apple’s iTunes U tops a billion downloads
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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How many Ph.D.’s find academic jobs by graduation?
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.
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DaVinci Coders classes starting April 15th
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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.
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