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The Digital Revolution Is Saving Higher Ed

Edsurge

The most notorious oracle predicting the coming death spiral of academia was the late Harvard University professor Clayton Christensen, who in 2011 famously forecast that “50 percent of the 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years.” colleges will remain standing.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

Edsurge

The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He offers through Coursera, which Ng teaches, have had wide appeal on the MOOC website. He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

The biggest occurred when instructional designers, long employed by industry, joined online academic teams, working closely with faculty to upload and integrate interactive and engaging content. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) In some conventional courses, MOOCs also supplement on-campus curricula.

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How Virtual IT Labs Prepare Students for Real-Life Work

Edsurge

When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. In 2011, it had only five full-time faculty members. The experience is similar to how programs are actually created in the technology industry. Ashford was one of the leading schools in that area.

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How Udacity Could Return to Its Higher Ed Roots

Edsurge

EdSurge: Udacity rode the wave of hype around MOOCs, massive open online courses, when the company started back in 2011. But more recently, the company’s co-founder, Sebastian Thrun, has insisted that Udacity is not a MOOC company. We do that by partnering with industry.

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Removing the Obstacles in Education so Innovation and Academics Can Flourish

The Principal of Change

Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years. For example, at Google, once employees are two or three years out of college, their grades have no bearing on their performance.

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A Top Proponent of Higher-Ed Disruption Moves to Put His Theories Into Practice

Wired Campus

.” (Of course, it could also be argued that it wasn’t for-profit colleges or other early adopters that disrupted the status quo and made distance education more acceptable to the mainstream of higher education; it was elite institutions that embraced MOOCs.). Christensen and Curtis W. Johnson, of the 2008 book Disrupting Class.

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