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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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Since 2018, she has been a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the global education sector. As education researcher Andreas Schleicher noted , “The world economy no longer pays you for what you know; Google knows everything … the world economy pays you for what you can do with what you know.”

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. The Biggest Investments of 2018. Udemy (skills training): $173 million. VIPKID (tutoring): $500 million. Zuoyebang (tutoring): $350 million.

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