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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Disclosure/disclaimer: I am a folklorist by training. The quotation is from 2012. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing.

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Why the Lumina Foundation Is Betting Big on New Kinds of Credentials

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A number of years ago, we set a goal for the nation that by 2025, 60 percent of Americans will hold a high-quality certificate, degree, or other high-quality credential. We estimate about 65 percent of jobs in 2025 will require some form of post-secondary education. Part of the problem with MOOCs was it was the same delivery method.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Although job training is something that companies have been unwilling to pay for – or at least that they pay for quite unevenly.) ” Train and retrain. Education Technology and the Business of Job Training.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. billion by 2025. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. Interactive Whiteboards.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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“But nor do they tend to have the full features we associate with universities: multiple schools and departments with a heavy focus on research, scholarship and training new Ph.Ds. The foundation says it’s committed to boosting the number of Americans who have some “quality postsecondary credential” to 60% by 2025.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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On the US House of Representatives’ proposed budget : “$2 Billion for Teacher Training, Salaries Eliminated in House Budget Plan,” Education Week reports. The Business of Job Training. The Getting Smart blog predicts that “By 2025, Swarms of Self-Driving Vehicles Will Transport Students to Learning Sites.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the new for-profit higher ed – coding bootcamps – in the job training section below. Via The Pacific Standard : “For the First Time, a Female Officer Completed the Marines’ Grueling Infantry Officer Training Course.” The Business of Job Training. ” asks Michael Petrilli.