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HBS, SEAS, FAS partner with 2U, Inc., to offer the Harvard Business Analytics Program
2U, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU) today announced a new partnership with Harvard Business School (HBS), the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Department of Statistics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to deliver the Harvard Business Analytics Program. More...
Higher education treading carefully with Trump administration
Along with much, if not most, of America, higher education seeks to gain a clearer picture of trends with the Trump administration. More...
OnBase by Hyland supports student service at Southern Adventist University
Collegedale, Tennessee-based Southern Adventist University (Southern) recently selected OnBase by Hyland to support its campus-wide digital information management strategy. Southern will migrate to OnBase from Nolij, which was recently acquired by Hyland, and will deliver functionality and workflows, increase departmental efficiencies and support superior student service. More...
Colorado Education Association partners with Edthena
The Colorado Education Association (CEA) is partnering with Edthena to embed video observation and feedback into courses offered on COpilot, the state’s online professional learning platform. More...
Bridging the gap between education and occupation
Download our latest whitepaper, "Bridging The Gap Between Education And Occupation" and learn how colleges and universities are bridging the gap between the career readiness of their students and the challenge employers have finding qualified applicants in a competitive market. More...
Taking steps to ensure affordability
When someone from an underrepresented background is considering whether to attend college, a number of factors come to bear on that decision. Am I prepared for college? Are there people like me? Will I feel welcomed and supported. More...
The campus-speech debate spends summer break in statehouses
Until this summer, the debate about free speech on college campuses was shaped by small groups of student activists, forcefully protesting an ever-expanding list of controversial speakers, and their critics and defenders, who were mostly reactive. More...
On the value or otherwise of SAMR, RAT etc.
On the value or otherwise of SAMR, RAT etc.
David T. Jones, The Weblog of (a) David Jones, 2016/08/26
This is a topic that could occupy the rest of your day if you let it. Don't.
Here is the argument: "SAMR is not a model of learning.... SAMR does not relate to skills; it does nothing to develop the higher order skills of Bloom’s revised taxonomy: creativity, evaluation, analysis – the areas that we clearly need to focus on and develop with our young people." SAMR (Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition) may indeed may be derived from RAT (Replacement, Amplification, and Transformation. More...
WhatsApp users to receive adverts
WhatsApp users to receive adverts
BBC News, 2016/08/26
Readers of my social network accounts will know that I have shuttered my Facebook accounts and ceased using that service. The reason is that Facebook disabled the ad blocker I use in Firefox in order to force advertisements into the news stream. I have also made sure to uninstall WhatsApp (which is owned by Facebook) from my phone. More...