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December 31, 2016

3 Steps to Choose the Right Online Degree Major

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By Joe Chapman, US News

Prospective online students should consider their career goals and virtually connect with an enrollment counselor. For some, choosing an online degree program can be daunting. With dozens of programs to choose from, deciding on the right fit can be tough – especially considering the financial investment. Remember, your online degree choice should reflect your interests and passions and ultimately lead to a career that is satisfying and rewarding. For online students, choosing the right degree program can be easier if online education is being used to further a current career path, because you most likely have an idea of the degree you need to continue. However, it’s still important to follow these steps, as you may discover a new degree option or career path that piques your interest and ultimately achieves your goals in a different way.

http://www.usnews.com/education/online-learning-lessons/articles/2016-12-16/3-steps-to-choose-the-right-online-degree-major

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Digital is Changing Major Aspects of K-12 Education

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by Reg Johnson, Cisco

There have been many conversations about the impact of technology on individual schools, but much less about the impact on entire education systems. To address this, Cisco staged five roundtable discussions in Australia to investigate the opportunities presented by digitization. While technology disruption has been immense, we are in the early stages of even more profound change. The Internet of Things is being thought of as the second-generation Internet, or “Industrial Internet.” If the Internet was about connecting people, IoT is about connecting people to machines and machines to machines. As a consequence, there is likely to be more change in learning in the next five years than there has been since Gutenberg. Why? Because we are at a tipping point where new technologies can engage more students, render learning more relevant, contain costs, and enhance equity.

http://blogs.cisco.com/education/digital-is-changing-major-aspects-of-k-12-education

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Switching Careers: Advice from a Nanodegree Graduate

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by Elyse Kolin, Udacity

Udacity students pursue a wide array of career goals. Many are preparing to launch new careers, while others are switching careers—turning their existing skills and interests in new directions. In this post we feature Mike Miller, a Nanodegree Plus graduate who successfully switched his career from mathematics educator to iOS developer. In an in-depth interview, Mike generously shared details about his journey from software hobbyist to full-time iOS developer. He discussed his challenges, described his successes, and explored the role that Udacity playe

http://blog.udacity.com/2016/12/switching-careers-advice-nanodegree-graduate.html

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December 30, 2016

Report: Tech-Savvy K–12 Teachers Will Survive the Age of Automation

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By Sri Ravipati, THE Journal

While artificial intelligence (AI) continues to automate operations across industries like accounting, law and healthcare, machines are unlikely to replace teachers any time soon, according to research from the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. In “Teaching in the Machine Age,” report author and lead researcher Thomas Arnett argues that the “teaching profession is not immune to the effects of scientific and technological progress.” But instead of “viewing technological progress as a threat,” teachers should embrace AI innovations to help automate basic teaching tasks. Arnett outlines three “challenging circumstances” and explains how teachers and administrators can leverage technology to solve these problems and enhance their instructional models.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/12/12/report-tech-savvy-k12-teachers-will-survive-the-age-of-automation.aspx

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Trending: Online courses in game theory, 3D printing

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by Lavina Mulchandani, Hindustan Times

As massive open online courses, or MOOCs, catch on, the number of students registering is climbing by as much as 70% a year, and hallowed institutes that never offered them before — like Oxford University — are opening their doors virtually too. “MOOCs used to be seen as almost an extra-curricular activity. But even the book-centric Indian students are learning that it can be very enriching, personally and professionally, to attend a prestigious foreign university virtually,” says education consultant Karan Gupta. “It also helps expand the horizon when it comes to higher study options, as MOOCs allow students to opt for standalone courses in topics like game theory, antimicrobial resistance or 3D printing.”

http://www.hindustantimes.com/education/now-trending-online-courses-in-game-theory-3d-printing/story-Rn0A7XG2Fxwt3m7wPftEAK.html

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Toys, Education Companies Invest $24 Million in Mobile Gaming Startup

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By Sri Ravipati, THE Journal

Several major companies in the toys and games industry have invested in a California-based startup that builds immersive games and content for its flagship iPad accessory.TechCrunch reported that Osmo, “an early entrant in IoT toys,” has raised $24 million in funding from Mattel, Sesame Workshop, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and several venture capital funds. Osmo’s gaming system, designed for children ages 5–12, utilizes its own Reflective Artificial Intelligence technology to integrate physical puzzle pieces, blocks and other toys into a digital environment. With Pizza Co., for example, students learn business and math skills as they run their own virtual pizza shop using tangible money tiles that register on their iPad.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/12/13/toy-industry-leaders-invest-24-million-in-mobile-gaming-startup.aspx

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December 29, 2016

10 Most Popular edX Courses in 2016

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BY JERRY HAMEDI, eDX

As the year comes to a close, we take a look back at our ten most popular courses of 2016, as selected by you, our learners. Our list, based on total enrollments and learner ratings, showcases your favorite courses and what you’ve had to say about them.

http://blog.edx.org/10-most-popular-courses-edx-courses-in-2016

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This online software makes learning a new language simpler and more affordable than ever

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by Alessia Grunberger, Insider Picks

There are a lot of benefits to being bilingual. Besides the obvious social advantages — like traveling with ease and sounding awesome to your unilingual friends — being able to speak more than one language makes you an invaluable asset to employers. For these reasons and many others, picking up a new tongue is always one of the top New Year’s resolutions people make year after year.

http://www.businessinsider.com/babbel-learn-foreign-language-online-software-2016-12?r=UK&IR=T

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Digital education: Pedagogy online

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by Mike Sharples, Nature

Teachers in much of the developed world now use smartboards, tablets and student-centred, collaborative and project-based learning. Universities are adopting flipped teaching: students learn online, then solve problems in the classroom. Some can access remote lab equipment and telescopes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) involve people around the world in study and conversation. The continuing change is provoking existential dread among some faculty members, who envision teachers replaced with computer-based tutors and universities moving to online-only courses in the next decade. Those shifts can also foster an excitement that Robert Ubell’s Going Online captures. The book is the view from the control room of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, where Ubell heads the digital-education unit.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v540/n7633/full/540340a.html

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December 28, 2016

Making data analytics work for you—instead of the other way around

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By Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams, McKinsey Quarterly

Does your data have a purpose? If not, you’re spinning your wheels. Here’s how to discover one and then translate it into action. The data-analytics revolution now under way has the potential to transform how companies organize, operate, manage talent, and create value. Advanced data analytics is a quintessential business matter. That means the CEO and other top executives must be able to clearly articulate its purpose and then translate it into action—not just in an analytics department, but throughout the organization where the insights will be used.

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/making-data-analytics-work-for-you-instead-of-the-other-way-around

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College IT leaders: The future of campus cloud technology has arrived

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by Jarrett Carter, Education Dive

Campus Technology reports on the growing presence of cloud technology on college campuses and a new survey of IT officials who overwhelmingly project more growth for 2017. More than 81% of survey respondents say they will invest more in cloud technologies for email, data storage and collaborative research and teaching modules next year, and that the 35% of current campus cloud technologies may nearly double in the next five years. While most institutions are using cloud-based computing for data backup and smaller functions, some officials see full campus services moving to the platform.

http://www.educationdive.com/news/college-it-leaders-the-future-of-campus-cloud-technology-has-arrived/432441/

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Educators Face Familiar Challenges in Increasing Tech-Enabled Student Collaboration

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BY JULIA MCCANDLESS, Converge

Similar challenges appear in both traditional and digital learning environments when it comes to collaboration. Most can agree that the days of the “traditional classroom” are limited. More schools and universities are implementing technology — from iPads to classroom websites to complete digital environments — to enhance student learning. Moreover, technology has brought increased opportunities for enhanced student collaboration and communication. But while the potential may be there, when it comes to actually developing the 21st-century classroom, educators are facing some familiar challenges.

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/higher-ed/Educators-Face-Familiar-Challenges-in-Increasing-Tech-Enabled-Student-Collaboration.html

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December 27, 2016

The Secret to Digital Innovation in the Liberal Arts

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By David Raths, Campus Technology

Small liberal arts colleges looking to innovate with technology in education are finding strength in numbers. Liberal arts colleges are at something of a disadvantage in the pursuit of digital technology innovation because they don’t have the size or resources of large research universities. But some are finding strength in numbers as they collaborate on projects involving MOOCs and other online learning strategies. During a Dec. 8 Future Trends Forum video chat hosted by futurist Bryan Alexander, several liberal arts technology leaders spoke about their efforts to define their colleges’ approach to digital innovation.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/12/12/the-secret-to-digital-innovation-in-the-liberal-arts.aspx

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Quality Assurance Standards for Non-Traditional Education Programs

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By Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

Entangled Solutions is forming a Quality Assurance Task Force to drive accountability and transparency for emerging models of education. The higher education consultancy today announced the initial members of the task force, who will “collaborate in the development of quality assurance standards that can be used to measure and report on outcomes for a diverse, cross section of education providers,” according to a press release. The task force includes representatives from the University of Texas at Austin, Western Governors University and Bellevue University, as well as higher education industry leaders, former policymakers and associations, who will collect feedback from stakeholders to codify “transparent, outcome-oriented standards for evaluating educational programs.” A draft of the standards will be published for public comment. Once the standards are finalized, an independent nonprofit organization will be created to maintain and update them over time.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/12/14/new-task-force-to-develop-quality-assurance-standards-for-nontraditional-education-programs.aspx

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3 Forces Shaping Ed Tech in 2017

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By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

Ovum’s latest report examines the key trends that are expected to impact higher education in the new year. Sometimes predictions about coming trends in a given segment seem willy-nilly. First, we’re marching in this direction, and then suddenly, it’s a new year and we’re marching in that direction. Not so with Ovum in its recent report, “2017 Trends to Watch: Higher Education.” There, the industry is expected to follow in the same direction it has been heading for the past year. The key watchwords: use of innovative technology in teaching and learning, improvement of the student experience and an overall IT strategy that focuses on IT agility. The main difference: Colleges and universities have made “significant advancement” along the way.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/12/13/3-forces-shaping-ed-tech-in-2017.aspx

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December 26, 2016

AV Design and Project Management Software That Makes Life Easier

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by Mike Tomei, Campus Technology

While there’s no substitute for experience when it comes to AV system design, these tools can help you through the process. With all the factors that go into implementing the correct audiovisual systems for a higher ed classroom, AV design and installation projects can be rather daunting for those who are new to the industry. There’s no substitute for experience when it comes to AV system design — and even though colleges and universities often use AV contractors for equipment installation, in-house AV or IT departments still must handle many of the initial design and project management tasks. Thankfully, there are tools out there that can help you through the process. Here are some recommendations on software that makes my life easier during the design and construction phases of AV projects. I have no affiliation with any of these pieces of software — I’m just a fan.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/12/14/av-design-and-project-management-software-that-makes-life-easier.aspx

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Competency-Based Education: Saving Students Time and Money

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by Carlos Rivers and Judith Sebesta, EDUCAUSE Review

Competency-based education offers the opportunity to accelerate learning and thus time-to-credential; alternative pricing structures such as all-you-can-take subscription models; and credit for prior learning. The Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Program, a competency-based BAAS in Organizational Leadership at Texas A&M University–Commerce, illustrates how these time and cost savings can benefit students. The TAMU-C Institute for Competency-Based Education will assist additional higher education institutions across Texas in developing their own TAB programs.

http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/12/competency-based-education-saving-students-time-and-money

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Institutional Analytics and the Data Tsunami

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by Gordon Wishon and John Rome, EDUCAUSE Review

An advanced analytics platform helps prepare your institution for the volume, variety, and velocity of data coming your way. Tremendous opportunities exist from using nontraditional data sources to find new ways to advance student success and institutional performance. The ability to deliver analytic services in the public cloud will force the rethinking of current or future on-premises solutions because of the potential flexibility and innovation offered. While data scientist is the hot new job title, the rest of the institution’s analytics workforce must develop and strengthen their skills and technology tools to engage, evaluate, and leverage these new, impending, and inevitable analytics platforms.

http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/12/institutional-analytics-and-the-data-tsunami

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December 25, 2016

Modeling an IT Strategy for Student Success

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by John Suess and Henry Childers, EDUCAUSE Review

For institutions to fully benefit from their investments in student success and to position themselves for continued improvement, IT leadership must get engaged and develop an IT strategy that supports student success and can evolve with the institution’s needs. The issue of student success has risen to the forefront of public attention thanks in part to the Obama administration’s goal of making the United States the world leader in four-year degree attainment among 25–34 year olds and the Gates Foundation and its emphasis on postsecondary success. If you type “student success initiative site:.edu” into the Google search box, you will get 15,200 results, providing one indication of how widespread campus efforts to improve student success have become.

http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/11/modeling-an-it-strategy-for-student-success

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Workforce capacity and mobile access to courses: Higher ed trends to watch in 2017

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by Jarrett Carter, Education Dive

Executives from educational engagement firm Cengage are weighing in on how access and training are going to be key focus areas for higher education, and their supporting systems of finance, exposure and governance in the year to come. Officials say that building confidence and workforce capacity, mobile access to training and education, and accrediting credentialing modules are among the top concerns for institutions going into new eras of student diversity and access. Some expect for federal aid to be extended to for-profit, non-traditional learning options like bootcamps and workforce training programs.

http://www.educationdive.com/news/workforce-capacity-and-mobile-access-to-courses-higher-ed-trends-to-watch/432364/

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Are coding bootcamps the next higher ed bubble to burst?

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by Jarrett Carter, Education Dive

Bloomberg examines the bubble-bursting potential that surrounds coding bootcamps, which some officials say once offered access to in-demand computer science jobs at a fraction of the price of a college degree, but are now being frowned upon by premier companies like Google. California-based Coding House was shut down by the state’s Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education last month, amid charges of falsified job placement rates and a multitude of allegations that graduates were unprepared for basic interview questions from computer programming firms. Coding bootcamps will graduate about 18,000 students this year, triple the number of graduates from two years ago. Representatives from multiple firms speaking with Bloomberg say they all but disqualify applicants from the hiring process who list bootcamp credentials on their resumes.

http://www.educationdive.com/news/are-coding-bootcamps-the-next-higher-ed-bubble-to-burst/432343/

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