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Hippocampus Learning Centres | Changing the way children in Bharat learn. WHY ? Let's Hack Education. Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education. Le site de la Fondation La main à la pâte. Wisdemy | Following the online academic revolution. Scop Le Pavé. What Higher Education Will Look Like In 2020. Higher education is rapidly changing--you don’t have to even be paying much attention to see that. Universities have started streaming lectures en masse, schools like Harvard and MIT are teaming up to create content tailored for the web, startups like UniversityNow are creating reasonably priced online universities, and startups like Udacity offer online-only classes from renowned professors. None of this existed 10 years ago, and the field isn’t done changing yet.

A new report from Pew Internet looks at what higher education will look like in 2020, based on survey responses from over 1,000 "Internet experts, researchers, observers and users. " Below, highlights from the survey, including notable responses from those who were polled. Just 39% of respondents believe there will be modest changes by 2020, represented by the following scenario outlined by Pew: "In 2020, higher education will not be much different from the way it is today. The Carolina Abecedarian Project. Contribution à la concertation sur l’école : priorité au primaire - NOTE - Juillet 2012.

Perry Preschool Study Lifetime Effects. This study — perhaps the most well-known of all HighScope research efforts — examines the lives of 123 children born in poverty and at high risk of failing in school. From 1962–1967, at ages 3 and 4, the subjects were randomly divided into a program group that received a high-quality preschool program based on HighScope's participatory learning approach and a comparison group who received no preschool program. In the study's most recent phase, 97% of the study participants still living were interviewed at age 40. Additional data were gathered from the subjects' school, social services, and arrest records. The study found that adults at age 40 who had the preschool program had higher earnings, were more likely to hold a job, had committed fewer crimes, and were more likely to have graduated from high school than adults who did not have preschool.

See Figures 1 and 2 for more information. Related sources "Early Lessons," by Emily Hanford, American RadioWorks, American Public Media, 2009.