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Coursera’s Daphne Koller discusses plans for the future of a format that some thought would never last this long. 
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OpenStax selected 11 schools for its national Open Educational Resource Institutional Partnership Program.
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While edtech companies and educational start-ups aiming to ‘disrupt’ higher ed from the outside have gained momentum in recent years, some universities have embraced the unknown by creating their own R&D labs for innovation.
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"University of Northwestern—St. Paul is offering the first zero-textbook-cost degree or “Z-degree” in Minnesota and one of the first bachelor Z-degrees in the nation, with the online Bachelor of Science in Business Management program."
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Each summer Mary Meeker releases her Internet Trends presentation. At the release of each report, I wonder if postsecondary education will be featured in the deck. And each summer I am sad that it is
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In a new podcast, a prominent critic of education technology deconstructs what she calls the "Silicon Valley narrative."
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A professor at Georgia Tech fooled his students by using a robot as a teaching assistant for his Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence Class
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The financial struggle of public research institutions may be a matter of choice—not necessity, as public leaders say.
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For the second year in a row, innovators with very different notions of how to improve higher education brought us their pitches. Here’s how they fared.
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Last year, Deanna Marcum’s issue brief on talent management in academic libraries reflected in part on some of the challenges that academic libraries face in their processes for selection of library staff.
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I like the idea of giving a little homework for candidates of a job opening. It can give you insight into the type of employee they would be. Never forget employees are the life blood of any organization.
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March 7, 2016 11:24 AM
I like the idea of giving a little homework for candidates of a job opening. It can give you insight into the type of employee they would be. Never forget employees are the life blood of any organization. 
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March 11, 2016 6:31 AM
I like the idea of giving a little homework for candidates of a job opening. It can give you insight into the type of employee they would be. Never forget employees are the life blood of any organization.
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Since 2011, ELI’s Key Issues survey has been a way for the higher education teaching and learning community to discover the common ground that cuts across differences such as Carnegie Classification and [...]...
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Since 2011, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) has been surveying the EDUCAUSE community in order to identify and track the key issues (formerly called content anchors) in higher education teaching and learning for the coming year.
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Over the last decade, the price of college textbooks has soared. Since 2006, the cost of a college textbook increased by 73% - over four times the rate of inflation. Today, individual textbooks often cost over $200, sometimes as high as $400.
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The NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI).
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If you don't already know this, this is one of the best resources for learning about future trends in Higher Ed.
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The best designs are human centered. Putting human beings at the center of the process helps us create and maintain humanity as we innovate and move forward.
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Penn State is partnering with Dreamit — named one of the top 10 accelerators in the world by Forbes — to create an accelerator focused on educational technology. Launching March 2016, Dreamit EdTech will assist startups seeking to solve challenges faced by educators at all levels of learning, including higher education, adult skills acquisition, primary and secondary education. Entrepreneurs will be selected based on an application process. Upon acceptance, they will spend four months developing and de-risking their companies using Dreamit’s curriculum and access to its global network.
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Data about how students learn could open new vistas in education, if only instructors can figure out how to use it.
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"Concerns about Yik Yak and analysis of MOOCs and online teaching were among the most popular stories this past year on our Wired Campus blog."
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Ohio State's Office of Distance Education and eLearning invites you to the Ohio Union for Innovate, an annual conference exploring recent advancements, best practices, and provocative theories on teaching and learning with technology.
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Innovation is getting plenty of attention from Higher Ed. these days. Some good content about timely edtech topics.
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In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching a…
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Adopting new technologies is now commonplace for academic librarians but one emerging technology stands to change both how libraries function and the symbolic nature of their collections.
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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's delivers Harvard's 2008 Commencement address
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Great reminder how failure can inspire success.
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