Having taken an extended vacation the past few weeks, I returned to the United States to see that the pace of innovation in education is continuing at a breakneck pace. From my perch, here’s a roundup of some of the more interesting happenings in that time: Online learning in higher education The announcement from Harvard [...]
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“I’d make different choices for my new school if I didn’t have the pressure to be perfect on day one.” — New school entrepreneur— “New school design is anti-Lean Startup. You spend eighteen months designing an untested, uniterated school model and then – bang – you open a school that will be around for one [...]
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The ASU Skysong Education Innovation Summit has become the can’t-miss education innovation event of the year in just the three years since it was founded—and this year came as close to living up to the hype as anything could (full disclosure: I am a member of the advisory board). Held at Arizona State University’s Skysong [...]
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Many of my friends in the education world are fond of talking about how the University of Phoenix is not in fact a disruptive innovation. They don’t just stop this statement with the University of Phoenix of course. I’m using the University of Phoenix as shorthand. What they mean are many of the distinctly online [...]
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Back in January, my friend Bror Saxberg, chief learning officer of Kaplan, published an eye-popping blog about a meta-analysis that Kurt VanLehn published recently about nearly 100 well-constructed papers about computers used to tutor learners. A couple of headlines from the meta-analysis are worth spotlighting here. First, the work shines some questions on Benjamin Bloom’s [...]
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Yesterday in this blog I said that there’s an organization that is already using a sophisticated data system to deliver a fully competency-based education model and producing remarkable results. That organization is Western Governors University (WGU), and its success offers a compelling template for K-12. My view about the power that a data system like [...]
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Imagine if each state provided its K-12 students a simple, navigable portal that linked them to the best learning resources in the world and they could choose their favorite path from a menu of possibilities. Imagine if K-12 students, with protections in place, could connect to learning teams, mentors, and experts worldwide in convenient, accessible, [...]
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I coauthored this piece with Gunnar Counselman, the founder and CEO of Fidelis, a venture-backed technology company that partners with leading colleges, veterans’ organizations, and companies to solve the military-to-career transition for the nation’s service members. He has also been a colleague of mine for the past several years as an adjunct fellow at Innosight Institute. [...]
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The idea that the public school system needs to transform from its factory-based model to a 21st-century student-centric design is repeated so often it’s become axiomatic. On Digital Learning Day in February, President Obama himself said that “the effective use of digital-learning tools . . . [helps ensure] no student is overlooked and every child [...]
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Entering 2012, the state of Virginia was coping with the effects of a faulty funding formula, which did not provide equity for all students statewide, that the existence of full-time virtual schools had exposed. Senate Bill 598 was introduced in January to fix the problem by insuring fair funding for public school students who wanted [...]
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