Edsurge
MARCH 3, 2021
Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public. Most recently , Moe framed the forthcoming disruption to education caused by the pandemic with an anachronistic reference: “The Coronavirus has instantly forced 1.6B billion in 2017. We have a B.C.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
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. But that’s not the same as saying that employers no longer value college credentials, despite overhyped media reports that employers are “throwing out” degrees.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 30, 2016
As my Entangled Solutions colleagues Amber Laxton, Yury Lifshits and I write in a new report, 10 Trends Ahead for Continuing Education , continuing education programs are an ideal place to not only test new ideas, but also launch new programs. MOOCs are not the only ones that offer on-demand learning today.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 10, 2018
As EdSurge reported in October 2017, those programs are now creating a situation where learners are accumulating more credentials from different providers. For example, he said, if someone forged a paper and got an A, but a year later, the forgery was discovered, there’s a way to write something to another chain that references that data.
Bryan Alexander
DECEMBER 29, 2015
I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. I’m not referring to the uses of tech in sports, but funding.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect. Newkirk concedes they are not the first to use these techniques, but the combination he and his colleagues have devised is getting results beyond what others have reported. Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner.
Bryan Alexander
JANUARY 24, 2016
I also asked each person to specify their role concerning technology, and there were a lot of different roles: someone running a distance learning program, another in charge of a problem-based learning initiative, a prof looking for good examples of technology in liberal education, a provost to whom several tech departments reported, and more.
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