Education Experts Say College Becoming Like a Startup

A global survey of leaders in education arrived at six five-year predictions. But they didn’t just say social media will burgeon as a tool, along with “blended learning,” in which online and offline methods converge. The leaders surveyed by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative also think college will become more like a startup, literally. Methods that replicate the atmosphere of startups will emerge on campus. And the influence of the maker movement will lead to actually producing things as a way to learn. Also likely to become more important: data-driven learning and assessment, as well as just plain more online learning.

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A global survey of leaders in education arrived at six five-year predictions. But they didn’t just say social media will burgeon as a tool, along with “blended learning,” in which online and offline methods converge. The leaders surveyed by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative also think college will become more like a startup, literally. Methods that replicate the atmosphere of startups will emerge on campus. And the influence of the maker movement will lead to actually producing things as a way to learn. Also likely to become more important: data-driven learning and assessment, as well as just plain more online learning.

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