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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...
EDUCAUSE Review Online - Top Ten of 2015
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.
The competency-based education marketplace eschews the bundled approach of traditional degrees, instead promising to produce workers adept in just the right skills employers want. Education expert Ryan Craig believes that unbundling could destroy all but a handful of colleges and universities.
Harvard Medical School recently made news by announcing "major" changes in its curriculum. Professors will "flip" the classroom, giving students access to the lectures in advance of class - so that professors and students can use precious time together to foster deeper learning, rather than simply to transmit content.
Unbundling is a hot topic in higher education. There's a book about it, College Disrupted, by Ryan Craig and The Chronicle of Higher Education started the year with the launch of Re:Learning, an ongoing special report on the new education landscape. But will people or institutions buy what's getting unbundled?
