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Photo Three years ago, technology was going to transform higher education. What happened? Over the course of a few months in early 2012, leading scientists from Harvard, Stanford and M.I.T. started three companies to provide Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. The courses were free. Millions of students signed up. But today, enrollment in traditional colleges remains robust, and undergraduates are paying higher tuition and taking out larger loans than ever before. The failure of MOOCs to disrupt higher education has nothing to do with the quality of the courses themselves, many of which are quite good and getting better. Now information technology is poised to transform college degrees. Traditional college degrees represent several different kinds of information.
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The Institute of Design The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) calls for applications for full-time positions as Ph.D. research fellows. These are three year positions (1 September 2015 to 30 August 2018) with the potential to be increased to four years, depending upon suitability. The research fellows will be part of a larger research initiative as part of the Centre for Service Innovation (CSI) although the research will be carried out through the Institute of Design at AHO, a partner to the Centre.
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Transforming Thinkers Into Creators | General Assembly. Reinvent Learning. Howard Rheingold’s roundtable on Reinventing Learning kept returning to a theme that’s a variation of writer William Gibson’s line that: The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Howard and all of the innovators in the discussion seemed to agree that the cornucopia of new digital learning tools based on the Internet has never been better and that pioneers in this space are enjoying unprecedented learning experiences.
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