New Models of Higher Education

Jeffrey R. Young - EdSurge Goodbye MOOCs, hello microcredentials. As federal and local funding fades and Silicon Valley gains greater influenc... (2017)

EdX, the nonprofit online-education group founded by MIT and Harvard, is quietly developing a “MicroBachelors” degree that is designed to break the... (2018)

Chronicle of Higher Education, 2016: "hristine Ortiz is taking a leave from her prestigious post as a professor and dean at the Massachusetts Inst... (2016)

Professor Christine Ortiz is stepping down from her post as dean for graduate education to found a new residential research university. “The goal... (2017)

Washington Post, Research confirms that retention after a lecture is about 10% and "taking notes from 'a sage on a stage' isn't as effective as ot... (2017)

By doing the work to shift from traditional lectures to a dynamic classroom, Professor Dynarski and millions of other postsecondary and secondary s... (2018)

Abstract: "This report introduces the fundamental principles of the Blockchain focusing on its potential for the education sector. It explains how ... (2018)

2U said yesterday that it had formed a partnership with shared workspace company WeWork. Any of the 13,000 students enrolled in the graduate degree... (2018)

A new book makes “The Case Against Education.” It’s decidedly not something to give to a high-school junior looking to get into college. The author... (2018)

When it comes to putting innovation into practice, a new book argues, not all classes are created equal. (2018)

Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. King suggests that the answer might point toward benefits of a slower pace of t... (2018)

“There is no way to give personalized feedback when I have 600 pages to grade each week... (2018)

Why the Department of Education wants to get behind an increasingly popular—but unaccredited—new style of education. (2019)

Active Learning. By Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director Print Version Cite this guide: Brame, C., (2016). Active learning. Vanderbilt Universi... (2018)

An experiment to create an inexpensive pathway for students to attend prestigious, four-year universities ended up costing one company a lot of mon... (2018)

Universities could have used online learning to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Instead they allowed forprofit companies to devou... (2019)

Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college. a similar program Google offe... (2020)