Gig work

What we now know as "Disruptive technology can be defined as technology with the potential to create disruptive innovation at any of...

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Disruption in higher education

Technology has disrupted the 'traditional' job market. Whereas once we were employed in in long-term roles, geographically close to ...

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Moving currency? Try TransferWise

A couple of people I know, who work overseas a lot, use a fully online financial platform called TransferWise to manage their international ...

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MOOCs: the costs and the completion

In early 2014, MIT and Harvard reported that 95% of enrollees did not complete courses. The reasons, according to Dan Coleman (2013), are...

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Some MOOC Barriers

I have participated in Coursera MOOCs and certified online courses; but enduring, rather than enjoying, both. I prefer face to face learni...

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Disruptive Technologies and the MOOC

As Clayton Christensen has written, education delivery and structure is in a period of distuption; he feels that education as we know i...

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Disruptive Education

I was sent a link recently advising me of an online course at a US University on Emotional Intelligence. I checked out the course, watched...

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