New frontier for scaling up online classes: Credit – from the New York Times and the Associated Press

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Degreed wants to jailbreak the college degree — from techcrunch.com by Rip Empson

Excerpt:

One new San Francisco startup, Degreed, is on a mission to “jailbreak the degree” and give learners a new form of academic credentialing. The startup’s free service essentially scores and validates a host of different learning inputs, whether they be from formal institutions, like the University of California, or informal platforms like Khan, Lynda.com, iTunesU, Coursera and so on.