Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Another key dynamic is the emergence of large-scale online learning platforms such as publicly traded companies Coursera and 2U ( now combined with EdX), which are developing a rich ecosystem of courses, microcredentials and full degrees that employers are adopting as a resource for their employees.

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Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 169

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Hechinger Report : “Documenting Maine ’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. Indiana University has joined edX.

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60