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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

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. This skills-based hiring trend has real momentum and is also evidenced in analysis of employer job postings and other data sources.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Udemy (skills training): $173 million. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. The data analysis and surveillance that are at the core of “smart cities” will surely include education data. And its CEO stepped down.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Udemy (skills training) – $173 million.

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