We decided to produce an expert roundup on the topic of the future of education. We asked 106 education experts to answer one question: “What are your thoughts on the future of education?” In part 2 of this series, we …
What’s behind the soaring cost of college textbooks
Despite growing online markets for discounted books, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. That has caused 65 percent of students to skip buying required texts …
EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program
EdX, the nonprofit online-education group founded by MIT and Harvard, is quietly developing a “MicroBachelors” degree that is designed to break the undergraduate credential into Lego-like components.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-01-25-edx-quietly-developing-microbachelors-program…
2017 Top Ten Books on Online Learning
2017 Top Ten Books on Online Learning
We selected ten books which help capture the ideas and resources made available in 2017. We make no pretense to be representative of all books published in all languages – our focus is …
5 Ideas for Writing with Technology
I think what happens to a lot of teachers is that they confuse the idea of teaching writing — when they are talking about technology — with teaching handwriting or keyboarding.
