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The Tyranny of Letter Grades. Bootstraps, Ep. 4
Our current grading system can be a way for kids to prove themselves and win college scholarships, or admission to selective colleges. It can also be…
4 years, 7 months ago
Should Robots Replace Teachers?
Robots are having a moment—including the announcement last week of a new home robot by Amazon. What could that mean for education? We talked with Nei…
4 years, 7 months ago
This Educator Tutored Chinese Students Remotely From Her Basement. Then It All Came Crashing Down.
Meet a U.S. educator who has been tutoring students in China for years from her basement closet, only to have a policy change cut her off from her st…
4 years, 8 months ago
Going Back: What College Teaching Is Like Compared to Last Year
It's hard to generalize about which is “better” for learning — online or in person. Because both clearly have their pros and cons, at least listening…
4 years, 8 months ago
Glitches, ‘Gas Fees’ and Lessons We Learned Selling an NFT
EdSurge has spent the last month auctioning off our first NFT, a digital token on the blockchain, to learn what the process involves and the issues t…
4 years, 8 months ago
Why The Coming ‘Upheaval’ in Higher Ed May Change Notions of Equity, and Prestige
Big changes are coming to higher education, and those changes will be bigger and more disruptive than many college leaders and experts realize as onl…
4 years, 8 months ago
What the Maps in Our Brain Tell Us About the Learning Process
To fit all the billions of neurons in the human brain into our heads, they're organized so that brain regions are carefully mapped to things like vis…
4 years, 9 months ago
How the Pandemic Has Disrupted Global K-16 Online Education
Online high schools were growing even before the pandemic struck, and some online schools were beginning to have a global reach. Now that the whole w…
4 years, 9 months ago
What the ‘Educational Underground’ Says About the Future of Learning and Work
This week we're hearing stories from the “educational underground"—the experimental programs and “hidden credentials” people get that aren’t on the t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Could NFTs Play a Role in Education?
There’s all this buzz about NFTs these days, with artists using the blockchain-based format to sell digital works that are getting snapped up by coll…
4 years, 9 months ago