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5 Higher-Ed Innovators Share Challenges, Ideas for the Future of Digital Learning

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She laid out their belief that in a world of constant change, those who are best equipped are those who generate new ideas when the path is unclear. To scale this capability, IDEO formed IDEO U and developed the capability to teach these skills online. Tolerating and moving through bureaucracy is a skill—a rare skill,” Burns says.

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Is This Hiring Process a Better Way to Find That Perfect Candidate?

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We envision a school where each student progresses along an individual learning continuum and educators focus on developing skills, such as collaboration, perspective taking, technological adeptness, problem solving and adaptability. That makes hiring a tricky and detailed process, especially for my first hire.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, speaks at the Empirical Educator Project’s 2019 Summit during the unveiling of the OpenSimon Toolkit.

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