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		<title>MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Carey, Chronicle of Higher Education The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has invented or improved many world-changing things—radar, information theory, and synthetic self-replicating molecules, to name a few. Last month the university announced, to mild fanfare, an invention that could be similarly transformative, this time for higher education itself. It&#8217;s called MITx. In that small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Is at Least 3 Years Away From Improving Student Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Josh Fischman, The Chronicle of Higher Education Las Vegas—At the very start of the Higher Ed Tech Summit here this week, James Applegate threw out a challenge. Mr. Applegate, vice president for program development at the Lumina Foundation, told an overflow crowd that the United States needed 60 percent of its adults to hold high-quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Tablet Publishing Is Poised to Revolutionize Higher Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trevor Bailey, Mashable.com Trevor Bailey is director of worldwide education at Adobe Systems, and leads the programs and strategies that make Adobe products easily available to education institutions. Today, only 57% of students who attend college in the U.S. actually graduate. The country ranks 12th among 36 developed countries. President Obama’s administration has a stated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Badges&#8217; Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today&#8217;s fast-changing job market. Educational upstarts across the Web are adopting systems of &#8220;badges&#8221; to certify skills and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Predictions for Higher Ed Technology in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed The flurry of late 2011 news has certainly made making predictions about technology and higher education fun. The announcement about MITx &#8212; MIT&#8217;s plans to offer certification (&#8220;for a modest fee&#8221;) for open courseware &#8212; was the year&#8217;s final shot across the bow of higher education. Beware, it seemed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 Tech Factors That Changed Education in 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Stanton, Mashable.com Michael Staton is the founder of Inigral, which develops social software for student recruitment and higher education retention. Inigral recently brought on the first PRI as a venture investment from the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation, and has been named one of the top 10 innovative companies in education by Fast Company. In 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules to Stop Pupil and Teacher From Getting Too Social Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Preston, The New York Times Faced with scandals and complaints involving teachers who misuse social media, school districts across the country are imposing strict new guidelines that ban private conversations between teachers and their students on cellphones and online platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The policies come as educators deal with a wide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ubi-learn.com/2011/12/21/rules-to-stop-pupil-and-teacher-from-getting-too-social-online/</link>
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		<title>Jedi v. Orc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[T.C., The Economist CALLING “World of Warcraft” (WoW) a mere video game is seriously underselling it. The virtual world, in which millions of players cooperate to conduct quests, delve into dungeons and slay dragons, is both a commercial and cultural phenomenon. Released in 2004, the game has now more than 10m active players, each of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephanie Saul, The New York Times By almost every educational measure, the Agora Cyber Charter School is failing. Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math. Nearly 50 percent trail in reading. A third do not graduate on time. And hundreds of children, from kindergartners to seniors, withdraw within months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ubi-learn.com/2011/12/16/profits-and-questions-at-online-charter-schools/</link>
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		<title>The New Digital Divide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Susan P. Crawford in The New York Times: FOR the second year in a row, the Monday after Thanksgiving — so-called Cyber Monday, when online retailers offer discounts to lure holiday shoppers — was the biggest online sales day of the year, totaling some $1.25 billion and overwhelming the sales figures racked up by [...]]]></description>
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