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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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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. But that’s not the same as saying that employers no longer value college credentials, despite overhyped media reports that employers are “throwing out” degrees.

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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One recent study found “widespread acceptance of alternative credentialing programs at American colleges and universities.” Panelists in this discussion will discuss the study’s findings and the evolving attitudes towards alternative credentials in the workforce. When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S. 2:00 p.m.

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Higher Education Joins the Blockchain Party

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As EdSurge reported in October 2017, those programs are now creating a situation where learners are accumulating more credentials from different providers. Now with blockchain and the tokenization of different initiatives, he thinks there’s an opportunity to pay people to learn and offer students financial incentives for their studies.

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So Much More Than Letters and Numbers

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Teachers would tell me at conferences what I needed to help my son with, they would tell me how he was behaving and everything they did in class, like what they were studying,” said Carolina Rosales, a mother of two elementary-school kids. IMMOOC April 21, 2017 Focus on the “Learner”

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” About once a day, all the students gather with a human instructor for a brief in-person lesson known as “study hall.”

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Income Share Agreements Dominate Y Combinator’s Latest Education Graduates

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Blair While studying abroad at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Mike Mahlkow saw how financing American education differs from that of his home country of Germany. Zia founded the company, originally called Murcul, in October 2017 in Hong Kong. Here’s a look at the latest edtech crop. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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From “Data Driven” to “Evidence Driven”

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If this same assessment was given in 6 different grade 9 classes, each of whom have studied different things and had different class discussions, the responses would be very individual and very much a demonstration of their own learning of course materials.

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