Remove platform statewide-initiatives
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Setting the Tone in DEI, Accessibility Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following up plans for educational access and equity with actions has become the hallmark of Grand Valley State University, which has a statewide presence in Michigan. An initiative that began during the pandemic is pulse surveys. Partnerships with external organizations and local governments have strengthened over the past two years.

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Coursera is Evolving into a Third-Wave EdTech Company

eLiterate

Much of the attention during the early years of MOOCs was on the pedagogical model of the MOOC itself, which is not very effective, and on the MOOC course delivery platforms, which directly translated lecture-model courses into an infinite lecture hall, with some relatively modest technological improvements. A market is a platform.

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A new generation of conservative student newspapers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“We were noticing that the way that students were handling their political discourse using platforms such as Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, YikYak, the school newspaper just simply was not a productive means of … making any kind of argument,” said Greve, a junior majoring in computer science.