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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

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They released a white paper yesterday called “Ideas For Designing An Affordable New Educational Institution,” where they lay out a framework for essentially a new class of university that would take advantage of various trends that have emerged in the past few years. It’s unclear whether anyone is ready to step in and build an NEI.

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Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills

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SNHU President Paul LeBlanc, in a white paper on the topic in 2011, wrote, “The game-changing idea here is that when we have assessment right, we should not care how a student achieves learning. We can blow up the delivery models and be free to try anything that shows itself to work.”.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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It was only in the ’70s that we started recruiting traditional-aged students onto a campus. We had to negotiate with our traditional faculty who really controlled what we could do and not do — to get a little bit of breathing space to do what we wanted to do. Will you release a white paper, or tools?

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XPRIZE: The Real Winners? Underserved Adult Learners

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It has spurred the publication of white papers, launch of incubators and conferences, as well as interest amongst journalists and advocacy groups. Many adults are unable to complete or even attend traditional in person classes due to work demands, transportation issues, or lack of child care. In fact, according to U.S.

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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

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Traditional teaching uses class time to introduce students to concepts, which they then engage with on their own through homework. Flipping the Classroom Professors who recorded video lectures for online learning during the pandemic are realizing they have a new resource at their disposal.

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‘Guided play’ benefits kids—but what does that look like for parents?

The Hechinger Report

You can read more about play and parenting in this recent white paper , published by Wright and her co-researchers, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Bo Stjerne Thomsen, chair of Learning Through Play and vice president of the LEGO Foundation.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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At first, he looked into starting his own university through his foundation, Gibson writes in his book, “ Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University.” And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. He was 19 years old at the time.

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