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”
Providers of free online higher education add more schools, including foreign schools
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.
A college degree is the new high school diploma
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”
7 wearable technologies being developed now
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”
Online education replacing physical colleges at a record pace
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”
Coursera moves closer to academic acceptance
Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Stanford University computer science professors who started Coursera,
Coursera, an online-education provider is one step closer to academic acceptance, saying Thursday that the American Council on Education would recommend colleges grant credit for the successful completion of some of its free classes.
Continue reading… “Coursera moves closer to academic acceptance”
Micro Credits: A Tool for Self-Organizing the Complex World of Education
Futurist Thomas Frey: A recent TEDx talk about solving traffic jams started by asking the simple question, “Who is in charge of the daily bread supply for the city of London?”
Continue reading… “Micro Credits: A Tool for Self-Organizing the Complex World of Education”
Coursera – best new startup of 2012
.
Tech Crunch has picked Coursera as the 2012 Crunchies’ “Best Overall Startup” for 2012. Coursera was chosen because more than anything else our country is heading into a period where higher education and job training is not catching up with the pace of innovation. The creative part of “creative destruction” has not yet kicked in. Coursera has opened up access to proprietary content, over 200 courses from over 33 top international and domestic schools like Stanford and Princeton and is one of the bright points of light pointing towards value and job creation in the creative space.
Continue reading… “Coursera – best new startup of 2012”
Eight brilliant people talk about the future of online education
Online education will have an enormous transformative impact on billions of people around the world.
The single most important technological development of the millennium is the advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs). The first reason it is so important is the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. And the second reason is for the equally disruptive effect MOOCs will inevitably have on the global education industry.
Continue reading… “Eight brilliant people talk about the future of online education”
Will your college still be in business by the time you want to graduate?
The question for the class of 2014 is what is your college plan and what is the likelihood that your college or university you attend will still be in business by the time you want to graduate.
A lot of High School kids ask whether or not they should go to college. The answer is yes. You find out about yourself when you go to college. You learn how to learn. You are exposed to new ideas. If you are into business that is where you learn the languages of business, accounting, finance, marketing and sales in college.
Continue reading… “Will your college still be in business by the time you want to graduate?”
Chinese college graduates reluctant to pursue blue collar jobs
Graduates in China say no thank you to factory jobs.
Guangzhou, China, a city with a population of 15 million, is the hub of a manufacturing region where factories make everything from T-shirts and shoes to auto parts, tablet computers and solar panels. Despite the factories offering double-digit annual pay increases and better benefits, many are desperate for workers.
Continue reading… “Chinese college graduates reluctant to pursue blue collar jobs”
Top 5 hottest careers you may have never considered
There are plenty of job siting open despite the less-than-booming U.S. employment market. But there’s a mismatch between the skills that applicants have and the skills required for the careers that are in hot demand. Among employers, 25% reported that they had open positions in science and engineering that were hard to fill, and 18% said they were struggling to fill jobs in computer programming and information technology (IT), according to a 2011 report by McKinsey & Co. Looking ahead, employers could face a shortage of 85 million high- and medium-skilled workers worldwide by 2020.
Continue reading… “Top 5 hottest careers you may have never considered”
