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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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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? ” MOOCs for credit. Keep Away From Coding Schools.” How is “quality” defined?

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Sony’s in the business. These have all been separate articles in each series. “More Americans just need the right training.” Training Ed-Tech.