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Business models in international education: what is possible? How local is...
In No education crisis wasted: On Bridge’s “business model in Africa (July 13, 2017), Hengeveld criticizes the way Bridge International Academies (Bridge) organizes their educational model in...
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AI and Politics
Update 2: A free book on Privacy and the Internet of Things Update: Microsoft Says AI Advances Will Require New Laws, Regulations Companies making and selling AI software will need to be held...
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The Platform Economy
A platform can be seen as the intermediary between service providers and consumers, whereby the service providers around the platform are complementors. The platform ecosystem, thereby, embraces (a)...
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Education and platforms An update: The Networked University of Jeffrey J. Selingo...
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Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University
Seems interesting Culture, Politics and Global Justice December 13th-14th, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge In recent discussions of capitalism, the notion of the ‘platform’ has come to...
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The Doughnut Economy: Eat it or Beat it.
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quit exempt from any intellectual influences are usually slaves of some defunct economist (Keynes, quoted in Raworth, 2017, p. 7). By the way, the quote goes...
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“Do you think that our economic models are fit for a sustainable future?”:...
The title of this blog is taken from a question on Twitter, in which Hester Jansen (@hesterjansen33) asked if the existing modern economic theories are future-proof. If we believe the “dominant” Dutch...
View ArticleThe price of (distance) education
Concluding Good education does not come cheap. Can education be provided in a competitive market? 1. Concluding Good quality education, whether online or face-to-face will cost money. Which form of...
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Open Education: time for a change??
According to Inside Higher Ed[1], the Open Education Conference ended in confusion on the goals and definitions of Open Education, resulting in the decision of founder David Wiley to quite as...
View ArticleAn answer to @MJFSchophuizen
Martine Schophuizen (@MJFSchophuizen) proposes a challenge on twitter: Just a thought experiment: What if our formal education system was 100% online by default and due to a global shortage of energy...
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