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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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?Filling the Other Skills Gap

Edsurge

The likes of Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, MasterClass, Lynda, and Pluralsight have together raised more than $1 billion and represent combined enterprise value of more than $5 billion. These workers recovered only 80,000, or 1 percent, of those job losses between 2010 and 2016. And this is just online.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. Online education (admittedly, a very generic category): Investments include Udemy ($60,000,000), DigiSchool ($15,700,000), MasterClass ($15,000,000), UNICAF ($12,000,000), OpenClassroom ($6,740,000). Funding has shrunk.