Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. No wonder, then, all the articles that have detailed students’ wasted time, wasted money and wasted hopes over the past two decades. But as they move, their credits don’t always follow. The numbers are painful.

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System Outcomes Competency Based Learning Course 96

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

President Obama allowed the program to expire in 2009, but it was reauthorized for five years in 2011. Employers are providing skills based training to their staff utilizing unbundled, SaaS resources like LinkedIn Learning. This article does not dive into all the options on the table. Its future looks bright.

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Education Policies Competency Based Learning Advocacy 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145