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What Scholars Are Saying About Online Education
By Jeff Dunn
During a recent lecture at Stanford University, scholars and respondents debated the merits of online learning. From the current disruption happening to the technology needed to bring it full circle, the debate covered all the hot-button issues when it comes to education, technology, and online learning.
Read more: edudemic.com
Posted in Online Education
Tagged edtech, MOOCs, online learning, Stanford University, technology
What We’re Watching: Which States Are Making Gains and Which Are Not
In this video Paul Peterson and Eric Hanushek discuss the results of their new study which looks at which countries and which U.S. states are growing the most in student achievement. As Eric Hanushek points out, the U.S. is doing middling, but some states are doing well and some are doing awfully.
Watch the video at Education Next: educationnext.org
Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University. Eric A. Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
Disruptive Higher Education is Opening Access Worldwide
Thomas Gibbons
Dean, School of Continuing Studies
Northwestern University
2012-2013 President, UPCEA
Something extraordinary is taking place in higher education. Not a week goes by without a national headline about the latest “it” initiative in the online learning world.
This summer a dozen highly ranked universities announced signing up with Coursera, a private start-up that will offer free online classes. They join forces with founding institutions Stanford, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan.
Cross-posted from The EvoLLLution, originally published August 3, 2012.
Has Higher Education Become an Engine of Inequality?
Inequality is growing in the United States, and social mobility is slowing. A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that 62 percent of Americans raised in the top one-fifth of the income scale stay in the top two-fifths; 65 percent born in the bottom fifth stay in the bottom two-fifths.
Education, long praised as the great equalizer, no longer seems to be performing as advertised. A study by Stanford University shows that the gap in standardized-test scores between low-income and high-income students has widened about 40 percent since the 1960s—now double that between black and white students. A… Continue reading
Changing the Economics of Education
John Hennessy and Salman Khan on how technology can make the college numbers add up
Is there anything to be done about the rising price of higher education? That was the question posed to John Hennessy, president of Stanford University, and Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, a nonprofit online-learning organization. They sat down with The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg to discuss how technology might be part of the solution.
Continue reading, or watch the video at WSJ: online.wsj.com
