Think about other avenues of professional development including mentoring programs, networking events, online learning resources and cross-functional working opportunities.

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Creating a national online library of learning resources, with a central bank of tools, software and apps available to everyone.

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This shift is enabling education technology companies to fulfil the call in education for on-demand, highly targeted and relevant online learning and open resources.

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Both are taking advantage of free online courses and other learning resources that may or not be accredited degrees, but have no less helped them achieve the tangible skills necessary to found their own businesses or enhance their career prospects.

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Armed with individualized plans, students leverage Khan Academy, a pioneer of Internet learning, and other online resources to learn math at their own pace.

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It was the ecosystem behind the iPads that mattered rather than the devices - and the iTunes U platform which allowed the school to put so many teaching resources online was much cheaper than the Virtual Learning Environments that many schools use.

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Ignoring the fact that prestige may be a poor proxy in the first place, the problem for online learning (and new universities primarily offering online courses) is that building prestige takes a long time and requires considerable resources.

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