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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. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.

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?Filling the Other Skills Gap

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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. Census Bureau 2016; U.S. 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 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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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. It finds no impact in math.

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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. Via The New York Times : “Dreams Stall as CUNY , New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters.” pic.twitter.com/hi32s3S9ke — Chris O'Connor (@ChristopOConnor) May 30, 2016.