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

Edsurge

The executive education market was already facing heightened competition and digital disruption: these pressures will accelerate in the current environment, with even more interest among employers in shorter-form offerings and online delivery.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. There, you can learn that this initiative was headed by one Michael M. We'll never forget, some said.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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Can Online Education Help Refugees Earn Degrees?

Wired Campus

But in the past few months, some online universities have been reaching out to those students, telling refugees that they don’t have to provide comprehensive records to enroll and offering free tuition. The University of the People, an online degree program based in the United States, is one of those institutions.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

million in fall 2009, a gain of 43 percent.” The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.”

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

million in fall 2009, a gain of 43 percent.” The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.”