In every generation since 1862, America has innovated on the form of the university. Until ours.
From the land-grant universities to Clark Kerr's seminal work, America's higher education landscape has faced almost continuous "innovator's dilemma." Competition in its purest sense reigned...
A Florida institution has implemented a universal e-portfolio application after testing it in one of its schools. Florida International University has signed a campus-wide license for Portfolium. This e-portfolio company provides a cloud-based service to let users capture, curate and share their education, skills and experiences...
For those of us who have been in the business of post-secondary innovation for a while College Disrupted is a bit like a documentary that takes place in your home town -- it shows the places where we played growing up. Of course when someone else tells it, it is never exactly as you remember it but these are mere nits and the book is certainly a worthwhile primer or reminder of many of the major discussions in Higher Education.
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University of South Wales and UNICAF Team Up to Offer Online Degree Programs Across the World's Second Largest Continent
Denver-based Galvanize has picked up another $3 million in investment, this time from the Colorado Impact Fund, which only puts money into local ventures.
The startup, which first raised $18 million back in mid-2014, plans to use the money for further product development and expansion...
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5. Data, Technology, and the Great Unbundling of Higher Education
By Ryan Craig and Allison Williams
Portfolium has partnered with America's largest educational system, the California Community College System ("CCC"), to help students connect learning with career opportunity. Over 2.1M students will have the opportunity to create free ePortfolios, and link together with millions of other students, faculty, and employers to further their learning and career success.
Private student loan companies are taking
off in both emerging and developed markets.
Kirsten Noben surveys the landscape
Students at Western Governors University, an exclusively online higher ed institution, get a free lesson in responsible borrowing that is paying dividends many years beyond graduation.
