All posts by Cait Etherington
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Virtual High Schools: 2017 Top Stories
December 18, 2017 Cait Etherington
Virtual high schools certainly made headlines in 2017. From coming to the rescue of thousands of displaced students following this fall’s hurricanes to…
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eLearning in Higher Education: 2017 Top Stories
December 17, 2017 Cait Etherington
The past year has seen eLearning grow in leaps and bounds, especially in higher education. From surprising mergers between private online companies and…
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eLearning: Predictions for 2018
December 15, 2017 Cait Etherington
The educational technology sector grew substantially in 2017 and all signs point to even greater growth in 2018. Over the past year, the…
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Should Educators Let Machines Make More Decisions?
December 14, 2017 Cait Etherington
Big data is rapidly transforming K-12 education and higher education, but not without a certain degree of resistance and skepticism. After all, for…
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How Georgia Tech is Bringing Prestige to Online Graduate Degrees
December 13, 2017 Cait Etherington
A key challenge faced by online programs has been their perceived prestige. Indeed, in some professions lingering concerns about online degrees being subpar,…
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Promoting Equity by Design
December 12, 2017 Cait Etherington
The nation’s education system has historically been structured by gross educational inequities and in 2017, many of these problems persist. Students from poor…
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Station1 University: The Arrival of Higher Ed’s Future
December 11, 2017 Cait Etherington
Over a year ago, Christine Ortiz, a highly accomplished engineer and MIT Dean, stepped down from her post to start her own university.…
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Instructure Acquires Video-based Learning Platform
December 11, 2017 Cait Etherington
Instructure, Inc. recently announced that it has acquired Practice, an applied video microlearning solution. The acquisition suggests that moving forward, Instructure’s platforms, including…
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Is Your Organization Ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
December 10, 2017 Cait Etherington
A new report published by the World Economic Forum suggests that life-long learning is bound to be part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,…
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UNESCO’s GEM Report: Data Collection Doesn’t Equal Accountability
December 06, 2017 Cait Etherington
UNESCO recently released its 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report. The report is designed to make organizations around the world increasingly accountable for…
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