Five years later, the school has a Social Venture Fund and courses on impact investment, the result of bottom-up student lobbying and top-down strategic decisions by the schools' governing bodies.
Endeavors to implement bottom-up, student-centered, really open, and distributed forms of MOOCs are exceptions rather than the rule (Yousef et al. 2014b).
As a result, demand for better education is swelling from the bottom up, as individual students, parents, and civil society groups are gaining greater awareness of how their schools stack up to international standards.
On the contrary, TAs -- or at least the good ones -- work from the bottom up, being fully aware that these students, whether slow learners or academically gifted, just came from high school and will likely thrive in an environment that takes set steps towards a larger goal.
University curriculum is arguably built from the bottom up, and needs to make sense to students just finding their feet.
Weave it, bottom up, through each finger.
Fold the bottom up and over.
Department-based change may be top-down (administrator-led), bottom-up (faculty- or student-driven), or some combination of the two.
For now, StudyBlue is focused on a bottom-up, direct-to-students approach, but there's potential for the startup to tap into districts, which it can do more effectively as more teachers become aware of the service and recommend it to their students.
