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The Future of Higher Education and MOOCs

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Start date: 20 Jun 2013 05:30 AM
End date: 20 Jun 2013 08:00 AM
Street / Location: 1530 Page Mill Road, Suite 200
City / town: Palo Alto
Country: California, USA
Organizer: Silicon Vikings
Name: Christina Samuelson
Email: christina.samuelson@siliconvikings.com
Homepage: http://siliconvikings.com/events/288/

The last couple of years have seen more passionate discussion about the future of education—both K12 as well as Higher Education—than perhaps any time in history, and the debate is not abating. Some feel we are currently in a “perfect storm” with a number of converging developments, including:

Technology—especially the Web, social media, and related technologies—enabling new forms of distributed education and learning
Growing numbers of “edupreneurs” with new ideas for how to create new and innovative education and learning experiences, and benefiting from incubators and willing investors providing risk capital for new edu-ventures
Disillusion by many students (and parents) of existing, traditional educational models and, especially, the high cost and inflexibility of these models

Come and join us and bring your questions and concerns about what lies ahead for higher education, in the US, the Nordic region and elsewhere. Networking with lighter food and drinks begins at 5:30 pm.