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It’s the Dawning of a New Day in the Job Market. Here’s What That Means for Higher Ed

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As 2020 kicked off, the U.S. MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera. job market was the strongest in 50 years , and the economy had seen a record 113-month streak of job creation. Across industries, demand for talent was booming.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. 2009 – the phones in their pockets. The quotation is from 2012. 2007 – the phones in their pockets.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Uber for Education".

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