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U.S. looking for new models of higher educationThe Obama administration is moving ahead with plans to waive certain federal student aid rules for colleges that want to experiment with competency-based education and other innovative forms of higher education. The Education Department has invited experiment proposals from colleges, businesses, philanthropies and state agencies to pilot higher education innovations aimed at lowering costs while maintaining quality.
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Google supports Knight Center for Journalism's MOOCGoogle has supported Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas to promote the creation and development of Spanish digital journalism projects. With Google's support the center is offering a MOOC course "Development of Journalistic Projects for the Web: an Introduction to Entrepreneurial Journalism."
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British Council to launch its first MOOCBritish Council in partnership with FutureLearn will deliver MOOCs to students of India for improving proficiency in English. It would provide a path for learners to take up the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).
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80% of MOOC students are graduatedA research taken by The Penn researchers shows that around 80% of the students who take up a MOOC course have already completed a graduate course. They also state that the students take up MOOCs mainly for either of the two reasons: advancing in a current job or curiosity.
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Virtual Classrooms: An alternate for Higher EducationA virtual classroom could deliver the best aspects of both real-world classrooms and online distance learning into a single platform. The educators also find that any subject could be taught in this setting provided with the tools that are available at present.
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Thriving cities and post secondary education - directly correlatedIn his book Triumph of the City, economist Edward Glaeser states "The share of the population with a college degree is used to estimate the skill level of a place, and no other measure does better in explaining recent urban prosperity. As the share of the population with college degrees increases by 10 percent, per capita gross metropolitan product rises by 22 percent."
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Online courses for farmersThe EverTrain website currently offers courses for agricultural-business and farmers to study from managing carbon, soil biology, salinity and climate risk. It provides an opportunity for the participants to update their skills and get a recognized qualification.
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Online courses for Medical ProfessionalsUniversity of Alabama, in partnership with BroadcastMed, Inc. has launched an online learning channel for medical professionals. It offers free web-based learning and continuing medical education for physicians to learn as their schedule permits.
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RELAY - a new online learning platformCourteville Business Solution, a technology based business solution provider has partnered with Ravensbourne, a higher education institution in the UK to launch RELAY an online learning platform for education in the creative fields. At the launch, Adebola Akindele, group managing director, Courteville Business Solutions, said RELAY would provide an innovative, affordable, flexible world class education to learners who are seeking to develop their technical knowledge and skills.
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Would an entrepreneurial higher education be an viable alternative to the current institutional model?Dr. Shawn Warren, an independent researcher in the field of higher education reform has developed an alternative to the current institutional model of: 1) university and college principal service providers; 2) public funding and 3) union labour representation. He has developed a professional model and a co-operative model which are promising.