Posts Tagged ‘disruptive technologies’
Shifting Landscapes, Changing Assumptions Reshape Higher Ed
by Philip DiSalvio
June 11, 2012
In 1852, Massachusetts became the first state to provide all its citizens access to a free public education. Over the next 66 years, every other state made the same guarantee. Based on a factory-model classroom and inspired in part by the approach Horace Mann saw in Prussia in 1843, it seemed to adequately prepare American ...
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Will MITx Change How We Think About Higher Education?
by Philip DiSalvio
February 6, 2012
While many colleges and universities are trying to adapt to the forces affecting higher education today, a recent move by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology is about to cause a seismic shift.
The prototype version of MITx is scheduled for launch in spring 2012. MITx is an outgrowth of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), which began in ...
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Does Community Engagement Have a Place in a Placeless University?
by Dan W. Butin
March 25, 2013
NEJHE on Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
It will be truly ironic if the most impersonal technology of all ends up saving the most personal kind of teaching and learning in higher education.
I speak about the dramatic rise of online learning and MOOCs. Everyone, it seems, is talking about and questioning the relevance and ...
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