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Will the Pandemic Lead More Colleges to Offer Credit for MOOCs? Coursera is Pushing for It.

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Since March, Coursera has allowed any college to request free access to its library of course content for any of its students to use, with a free version of what it calls Coursera for Campus. That’s because it might make the idea of adopting MOOC content acceptable to professors “skeptical about the integrity of online education,” he adds.

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The Beginning of a New Era in the Online Degree Market

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The online degree market has been one of the fastest-growing and most resilient segments of American higher education over the last two decades. Today, more than three million students pursue higher education fully online, representing a $20-billion market. According to U.S.

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Credential Blockchains Could Help Student Mobility. These 4 Efforts Explore How.

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More than 70 efforts are underway around the world to use blockchain technology in education, and most set their sights on better connecting people with job opportunities, according to a new report published by the American Council on Education. Department of Education. These include: the costs of setting up ledger systems.

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What College Professors Should Know About Learning Science

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Sarma is familiar with large data sets and tough technical challenges—he helped develop the RFID tags that track inventories in libraries and big box stores. EdSurge: When MOOCs started a few years ago, researchers were excited to learn from the data generated from all of these online learners. We did learn a lot.

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?Why an iTunes Model for Online Learning Is Bad for Educators

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In 2017, Stephen DeRue, dean of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, wrote a Forbes column arguing that, in order to make higher education more affordable, we needed to move towards an “iTunes model for education.” “In Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content. monthly minimum wage.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers.

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The Free, Amazing, Library 2.014 Online Events This Week

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This is a GREAT week for library learning and conversations! Then our fourth annual (and free) Future of Libraries conference, Library 2.014, starts on Wednesday, October 8th, at 10:00am US-Eastern Time with the opening keynote by conference co-chair Dr. Sandra Hirsh from the School of Information at San José State University.