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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. The number of MOOC-based degrees is approaching 100 , up from just a handful a year after my book’s publication.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity.

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

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In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. billion kilometers, and gave each other 1.3

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain. MOOCs losing their mojo?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Testing, Testing… “Most of the questions from New York ’s 2016 state tests are now public,” Chalkbeat reports. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). pic.twitter.com/hi32s3S9ke — Chris O'Connor (@ChristopOConnor) May 30, 2016. Which is probably worse than no graduates.