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Re-thinking the future of Education

A sneak peek in the (various possible) future(s) of education

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Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
TED, 2007 Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) c...

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New experiments in self-teaching | Sugata Mitra
TED: " Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they...

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How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
TED Published on May 10, 2013 Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture wor...

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Article washingtonpost.com

University of Vermont Medical School to Eliminate Lectures Completely by 2019
Washington Post, Research confirms that retention after a lecture is about 10% and "taking notes from 'a sage on a stage' isn't as effective as other w...

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Unbundled: Reimagining Higher Education | Anant Agarwal | HuffPost (2013)
Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX "...as Jeffrey Selingo describes in his book College UnBound. One key to this shift might be the concept of unbundling many...

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Article edsurge.com

The Future of Education Isn’t Free. It’s Open. | EdSurge News
"Listening to the political debates about education in the United States, you might get the mistaken impression that nothing is changing other than cost...

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Poverty, and the cost of college

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Article garlikov.com

The Socratic Method
Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling, by Rick Garlikov, " The experiment was to see whether I could teach these students binary arithmetic (arithmet...

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TED: "Hey Science Teachers: Make it Fun!"
TED: Tyler DeWitt

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Article joshbersin.com

The Disruption of Digital Learning: Ten Things We Have Learned – Josh Bersin (2017)
Digital learning is here: what are the ten trends to make sense of this new... First, as a preview, let me explain why this topic is so important. Th...

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Blockchain in Education (pdf, eBook)
Abstract: "This report introduces the fundamental principles of the Blockchain focusing on its potential for the education sector. It explains how this ...

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Article itpro.co.uk

Bett 2018: Education technology can lack institutional support | IT PRO
Launch of Innovation Index suggests more buy-in from educators is needed to bolster technology "The results of the survey found that 88 percent of te...

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Article washingtonpost.com

Koch network laying groundwork to transform America’s education system - Washingto...
Arizona is ground zero in 2018, but the push is much more ambitious than vouchers. “The Charles Koch Institute distributed roughly $100 million to 35...

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Article edsurge.com

More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses...
Jeffrey R. Young - EdSurge Goodbye MOOCs, hello microcredentials. As federal and local funding fades and Silicon Valley gains greater influence in ...

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Article economist.com

Why governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education - The ...
AUTOMATION and globalisation have brought drastic changes to Western labour markets. Middle-skilled jobs are disappearing fast. In America, wages for bl...

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Starting College for Free
A philanthropist and education reformer has partnered with leading universities to create a top-notch library of online courses. Students who do well ea...

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Opinion | How to Level the College Playing Field - The New York Times
I have spent a lifetime in education. Now I am dying. There are a few things I want to get off my chest.

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Article theatlantic.com

The Third Education Revolution - The Atlantic
Higher Education's Push Toward Lifelong Learning Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of tod...

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Building Skills Outside the Classroom With New Ways of Learning - The New York Times
Project-centered approaches to education could eventually make traditional methods as outdated as chalk and blackboards. "... this is not a typical s...

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Article economist.com

England has become one of the world’s biggest education laboratories - The Economist
The big classroom experiment:ASH GROVE ACADEMY, a state primary which sits in Moss Roe, a poor suburb on the outskirts of Macclesfield, is an excellent ...

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Article theatlantic.com

The Future of College Looks Like the Future of Retail - The Atlantic
Similar to e-commerce firms, online-degree programs are beginning to incorporate elements of an older-school, brick-and-mortar model.

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Article coindesk.com

Universities in China to Build Blockchain DAO for Affordable Education - CoinDesk
A group of top-tier Chinese universities plans to build a distributed organization to make educational resources more accessible and affordable...

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