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If education is on your mind or part of your business, this article from Yuri Narciss may stimulate conversation on common points of controversy. I have worked in the education sector for the last three years as a member of the Global Executive Team of Study Group in charge of marketing and sales. Joining from Google my background and perspective is very different from the majority of professionals in the sector. With all the hype around Online learning and $3.1B…
  Christy Johnson shares a post from her company blog on how to make virtual learning a better experience for students. In this panel, experts from Stanford and from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco discussed:  Experimenting with synchronous and asynchronous classroom environments, flipped classrooms, and different online tools Helping students meet, network, collaborate, complete meaningful activities, and learn from one another Thinking creatively about using technology and designing online learning specifically for an online setting Staying positive and…
  Marcia Nuffer shares an article that highlights the pros and cons of learning online. Online learning can be, and should be, as addictive as the other technologies we use. We are addicted to technology.  Multiple studies say we check our phones between 50 and 80 times a day. Millennials up to 150 times.  Sure, 90% of that is probably checking the time, using social media, and taking selfies.  But a good part of that time is also used to…
  Eric Hiller takes a look at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education and discusses the pros and cons of online learning.    “With the advent of our unfriendly visitor from Wuhan, the COVID-19 virus, a lot of things have changed. Higher education has been particularly hard hit. I could not find a complete list of colleges and universities in the USA that were closed, but one can get a pretty good qualitative sense of the effect,…