While technology innovation has impacted nearly every aspect of our lives, the education model has not evolved.
There is, of course, reason to be encouraged by the education model described in the linked Texas Tribune article above.
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In addition to being an arguably more effective education model, Mr Travel is also a lot cheaper than traditional training.
Recently Blair Sheppard, the incoming dean at Duke's Fuqua School of Business , said he would like to add gaming elements to the school's education model.
Some college and university presidents have said they felt pressured to join in the movement, and at the same time, were concerned that MOOCs will erode the traditional higher education model.
They cover a variety of subjects, including multiculturalism, the training of Adult Education champions and global citizenship education through the Model UN General Assembly.
As for Thiel, his forward thinking in business and philanthropy, specifically is current efforts around disrupting education is a model for future philanthropy.
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The standard model of education is a passive one, where success is measured by memorizing rote facts, and figures.
In the traditional model of education, we assign students grades to indicate what percentage of the material they have mastered.
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The degree gets off to a fast start, none of this two years of general education on the US model.
The central challenge we face in education is, as Steve Denning, my fellow Forbes contributor who wrote on this topic recently, said the basic factory model of education.
And with over half of its students in charter schools and a large and influential Teach for America corps, New Orleans has become a laboratory and model for education reform.
With some early adopters (institutional) already signed up, it is yet to be seen how this model of education can penetrate the US school districts and maneuver the accompanying silos and bureaucracy.
Most education follows the centuries old model of teacher as information source and student as lucky recipient.
The college claims to offer a "new model of higher education for the humanities in the UK".
According to Mr Andrews, the mergers will enable these institutions to develop and deliver a sustainable model of higher education.
Its well-structured method of training newly literate women as journalists and democratizing information production provides an easily replicated model of transformative education.
Likewise the education strategy signalled a move to a new era of secondary education beyond the traditional comprehensive model towards independent specialist schools.
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Educational and professional publishers have long seen the value of the subscription model for professional education (see: Safari Books Online, for one).
"As the UK and governments around the world move towards the 'student pays' model on higher education funding, employability is increasingly crucial to graduates, " said Mr Sowter.
"We have been piloting different approaches to how we deliver support and have found a model that uses education support staff is very effective, " said Director of Services for Children, Sally Brookes.
The Director-General of UNESCO will designate Sunny Varkey as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for his contribution to ensuring that underprivileged children across the world receive a good quality education by creating a leading model for public-private partnerships.
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Once one of the nation's most ineffectual, neglected and corrupt public education systems, Chicago's -- with 428, 000students in 559schools -- is now a model of sorts for urban public education.
She hopes that one day the school will serve as a model for girls' education throughout Africa.
This arrangement between a private university and a further education college shows how an alternative model might operate.
UNESCO's Model Curricula for Journalism Education provides generic models that can be adapted according to each country's specific needs.
The first UNESCO publication to be made available on the OER Platform is the UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education.
The Model Curricula for Journalism Education is currently available in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Nepali, Russian and Spanish.
In 2007 UNESCO developed the Model Curricula for Journalism Education, which has been adapted by more than 65 journalism schools worldwide.
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