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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. Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. They are a perfect example of what you get when you simply transfer analog practice to digital form and don’t make use of the advantages of the new medium. OER and open books. Learning analytics.

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Michelle Weise: ‘We Need to Design the Learning Ecosystem of the Future’

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As an example, in 2014, LinkedIn’s top ten jobs were jobs that hadn’t existed five years prior: social media intern, iOS/Android developer, cloud manager, big data architect, or UI/UX designer as examples. We can’t extrapolate from where we are today to meet the challenges of the workforce of 2030 or 2040. We have to do better.

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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. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. The quotation is from 2012. Maybe it will.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” ”) The CEO of Schoolrunner writes in Education Week’s Market Brief , for example, that “ Science of Character Development Initiative to Help Students Achieve Goals.”