Fundación Telefónica’s commitment to education is reflected not only through the activity of its direct intervention programs with children and young people in Europe and Latin America, but also in the constant exploration of innovative educational trends and the enhancement of experiences and projects that have given proven results. top100_educational_innovations.pdf. More...
Cedefop Director James Calleja praised Malta’s efforts to draft a national quality assurance framework for further and higher education based on the Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European higher education area (ESG) and a European quality assurance in VET (EQAVET) perspective. More...
Cedefop co-organises a training and knowledge-sharing course on skills needs anticipation and matching with the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO), the Skills Development and Employability Unit of the ILO and the European Training Foundation (ETF). The course will take place in Turin (Italy) between 20 and 24 October and the deadline for applications is 15 September.
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By Michael Horn. With the explosion of online learning, a disruptive innovation, there has been significant attention paid to the likely unbundling of higher education (see Michael Staton’s AEI piece and this University Ventures Fund piece, for example). The Clayton Christensen Institute has written unbundling recently. In every industry, the early successful products and services often have an interdependent architecture—meaning that they tend to be proprietary and bundled. More...
By Molly Schulson. Apple announced on June 30 that they have enhanced the iTunes U experience for iPad users. For example, educators are now able to create and edit their own iTunes U courses directly on their iPads for the first time. They can incorporate pictures and video captured from their iPad’s camera and also add their work from other apps such as iWork or iBooks Author to their iTunes U courses. More...
By Kelly Maher. MOOCs are open access online courses that allow limitless participation. Anyone who has an internet connection and a will to learn is welcome. More...
By Ron Bethke. Idk if u hav noticed, but the writing seen on the internet and social media is not always the best example of the King’s English. However, habits built through writing on social media don’t all have to be bad—and in many ways, can help improve writing. More...
By . This year, two national groups have devised plans to make paying for higher education a problem of the past. Both argue that it’s not only feasible, but that it won’t cost more than we already spend, as a nation, on higher education. More...
By . In what was designed to target low-income students with limited job and education prospects back in the late 1980s, a skills pipeline program is gaining momentum as more of today’s students realize the benefit of ‘middle skills,’ or those that require less than a traditional four-year degree but more than a high school diploma, and pay well per hour right after graduation. More...
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