By Elizabeth Koprowski. The Netherlands has been pushing for international enrollment, and the number of foreign students has been growing in recent years. In 2014, the country hosted more than 60,000 students, and the most recent figures for 2016 suggest that international students account for at least 10% of Dutch university students. More...
By Elizabeth Koprowski. Many university study abroad programs used to encourage students to study abroad during their junior year. This wisdom was based on the idea that most students would be well-established in their degree field, but would still have time upon return to take any additional requirements and still graduate within four years. More...
By Joanna Hughes. While much has been said about the allures of an Indian education, an obstacle has long stood between aspiring students and some of India’s most prestigious institutions: entrance test restrictions. Until now, that is. A recent meeting between India’s HRD and External Affairs officials yielded plans for the opening up of exams -- and, by proxy, university admissions -- to international students. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms
Sanjay Sarma, Karen E. Willcox, Philip H. Lippel, MIT Open Education Policy Initiative, 2016/04/04
This is an interesting forward-looking document from MIT. While the authors take pains to be clear that this is not a blueprint for the future of education, it does draw out some interesting lines of thoughts, including recommendations for research collaboration, showing the relevance of online learning to higher ed, creating the 'learning engineer', and fostering change to implement reforms. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms
Sanjay Sarma, Karen E. Willcox, Philip H. Lippel, MIT Open Education Policy Initiative, 2016/04/04
This is an interesting forward-looking document from MIT. While the authors take pains to be clear that this is not a blueprint for the future of education, it does draw out some interesting lines of thoughts, including recommendations for research collaboration, showing the relevance of online learning to higher ed, creating the 'learning engineer', and fostering change to implement reforms. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Labster
Labster, 2016/04/05
I watched a presentation this morning from Labster - "Students can freely perform experiments in a self-directed virtual lab. Labster works directly in the web browser and on iPads, and can be accessed anywhere, anytime." Good concept, good idea. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Report: Education Leaders, Staff Want more Individualization
Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology, 2016/04/05
Of course, I would make my usual distinction between personal and personalized, but beyond that, I can't say the story is a surprise (though you'd be hard-pressed to find technology supporting this objective). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mining the Quantified Self: Personal Knowledge Discovery as a Challenge for Data Science
Tom Fawcett, Big Data, 2016/04/05
Researchers know how to do analytics on large data sets, but doing useful analytics on individual people still eludes them. "despite small dataset size, the QS domain should be appealing to re- searchers (because it opens up interesting issues) and significant in its impact on the real world (because it can have a direct effect on people’s lives)." But it's not, because it's hard. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Crowd Source: Inside the company that fakes it all... for a price
Metafilter, 2016/04/05
I wonder how much data is fake. This is what makes me wonder: "Crowds on Demand brands themselves as "the experts at celebrating your top salesperson, your best clients or a family member with a memorable and fun event!". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Going further
Doug Peterson, doug — off the record, 2016/04/05
Doug peterson says there should be pushback on the post What does the fox say? More...
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