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Education systems around the world are increasingly recognising the value of local approaches to thinking, learning and being.
University "Indigenization" efforts using Massive Open Online Courses promise to reach wide audiences. They also raise critical questions about how to embody Indigenous ways of knowing and relating.
Artificial intelligence and automation are bringing changes to higher education that will challenge, and may even threaten, traditional universities.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) offer new opportunities for improving basic education in Africa.
For many universities, working with private edtech companies could be the only way of keeping pace with the changing world of education.
How do we and should we work with the first generation "digital native" doctoral researchers?
Science today is increasingly data-driven, but our education system has not caught up.
David Glance sits down with Apple co-founder and inventor of the Apple 1 computer, Steve Wozniak, to talk about his life, his thoughts on Apple then and now and how technology is changing the world.
MOOCs are an opportunity for African universities to bring the continent's thinkers and theories to the world. They also have great benefits for full-time students to experience a flipped classroom.
A scholar who has taught 250,000 students worldwide through the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) reflects on the changes that these courses are bringing. Should all those in higher ed be worried?
A professor of literature who is also a poet tackles the issue of the inroads technology has made in the relationship between teacher and learner.
Students are creating 'multiple personalities' to cheat on MOOCs. How do they do that? What are its implications?
How Massive Open Online Courses are maturing into useful tools.
Lecturers need to flag up graphic material with their students before they click on it.
Is there an impatience to write the history of MOOCs? Have universities even given sufficient time to experiment with MOOCs?
One of my Phd students is studying how parents make decisions about education for their children (you can participate in his survey here). We economists treat this as a problem of investment under uncertainty…
For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. It might be tempting for enthusiasts to say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick question…
Everyday, thousands of students around the world perch themselves in front of computer screens in homes, libraries, coffee shops, and Internet cafes to take a massive open online course (MOOC). It’s no…
It has been suggested that, with care and dedication, you can assemble a Masters of Business Administration for free. Perhaps unsurprisingly for those in the know, the idea hasn’t caught on. When leading…
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