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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. The best and most digestible books I’ve found are “ The ABCS of How We Learn ,” a 2016 book by Daniel Schwartz and “ How People Learn ,” the 1999 foundational text edited by John Bransford, Ann Brown, and Rodney Cocking. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers.

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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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Some of this is what Jane Mayer describes in her 2016 book Dark Money – the powerful and secretive networks of right-wing billionaire activists. Udemy (skills training) – $173 million. Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar. I have mentioned her once or twice in this series.). It finds no impact in math.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” The article notes that “The number of states planning to use the new [SBAC and PARCC] tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics.

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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.