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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. The Horizon Report said in 2010 that “open content” was less than a year away from widespread adoption. The quotation is from 2012.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version. billion by 2025. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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million jobs added since the rebound took hold in 2010, about 99 percent – or 11.5 Because despite their marketing copy, it remains important to ask: how do employers, in and out of Silicon Valley, respond to these alt-credentials – to MOOC certificates and nanodegrees and microcredentials and badges? Microcredentials.