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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. The quotation is from 2012.
A number of years ago, we set a goal for the nation that by 2025, 60 percent of Americans will hold a high-quality certificate, degree, or other high-quality credential. We estimate about 65 percent of jobs in 2025 will require some form of post-secondary education. Part of the problem with MOOCs was it was the same delivery method.
“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world. See: the LMS, the MOOC.
billion by 2025. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. The Year of the MOOC". Interactive Whiteboards. billion by 2023.
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). The startup, which something something MOOC something something, has raised $9.69 Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “Test Vendors Weigh In On Future of PARCC.” ” More on test scores and ed-tech in the research section below. million total.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
Because despite their marketing copy, it remains important to ask: how do employers, in and out of Silicon Valley, respond to these alt-credentials – to MOOC certificates and nanodegrees and microcredentials and badges? ” MOOCs for credit. Keep Away From Coding Schools.” ” “ Flexible, stackable courses.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” “ College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025 ,” says The Hechinger Report. ” Also via Class Central : “First Look at edX ’s Paywall Experiments.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? .” And more on regulating for-profits (or not) in the state politics section above.
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