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Innov8

EdTech 10: The Good Stuff

Getting Smart Staff

Happy Saturday! We are half way through November and definitely feeling thankful for so many interesting and good things happening in the world of education this week.
Personalized Learning

Enriching Online Education through E-Service-Learning

Guest Author

While the physical separation of online students from the campus poses a significant challenge to participating in service-learning opportunities, pioneering educators are attempting to offer equivalent learning experiences to online students.
Leadership

CEOs Want Hard-Working Decision-Making Team Players

Tom Vander Ark

A survey of chief executives indicates that 92% say education is very or the most important national competitiveness issue. But the survey, conducted by the The Business Council and The Conference Board, isn't a flattering picture of U.S. education.
Personalized Learning

Freemium U

Tom Vander Ark

Scott Hines is the president of World Education University (WEU). He's also mayor of the city of Rancho Mirage, CA. While this may turn out to be University Mirage, you should pay attention to this business model.
Personalized Learning

Smart Cities: Los Angeles

Tom Vander Ark

LA significantly lags the Bay Area, New York, and Chicago as an edtech leader. The activity level is closer to that of Seattle, a metro area less than a third its size.
Personalized Learning

Next-Gen State U

Tom Vander Ark

A state policy maker called and asked how a next-gen state university would work. They had spent lots of money with a brand name consultant that had given them predictable advice (create a consortium or start a new institution) and the policy maker had the sense that they weren’t pushing hard enough. Given the pressure for lower costs, better outcomes, and expanded access, there’s a new conversation about further and higher education (as they’d say in the Eurozone).
Personalized Learning

Canvas.net: An Open MOOC From Instructure

Tom Vander Ark

Next week classes kick off on Canvas.net, a hosting site for massively open online courses (MOOC) from universities including Ball State, Brown, Central Florida, and Utah. Unlike Coursera and Udacity, content partners can make decisions about the course instruction, assessment, instructional materials, and cost.
EdTech

What You’ll See More of 2013

Tom Vander Ark

A reporter asked me what to expect on the education front in 2013. To some extent you'll see an extension of the blog " 5 Megatrends That Shaped 2012 Education." But like MOOCs in 2012, there are likely to be a few breakout trends that few predicted.