{"id":34265,"date":"2012-11-16T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T20:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=34265"},"modified":"2012-11-16T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T20:32:13","slug":"taking-the-next-step-in-online-education-with-credit-equivalency-koller-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/11\/16\/taking-the-next-step-in-online-education-with-credit-equivalency-koller-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the next step in online education with credit equivalency [Koller &#038; Ng]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/coursera\/2012\/11\/16\/taking-the-next-step-in-online-education-with-credit-equivalency\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Taking the next step in online education with credit equivalency<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from forbes.com by Daphne Koller &amp; Andrew Ng<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At MOOCs like\u00a0Coursera, offering web-based courses is the first step in increasing access to education for millions of people around the world. \u00a0But for many students, much of the value of taking a course is lost if that course is not helpful in allowing them to obtain a degree. \u00a0To help address this limitation, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/-1725400.htm\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced<\/a> a collaboration with American Council on Education (ACE) to begin a credit-equivalence evaluation of some courses offered on Coursera \u2014 which means that in the future, students will potentially have the opportunity to receive college transfer credit at institutions choosing to accept the ACE recommendations. \u00a0This move is well in line with the current trend to provide students with credit for prior learning (including on-the-job training) and for competency, a trend whose aim is to increase completion rate and reduce time to completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the next step in online education with credit equivalency &#8212; from forbes.com by Daphne Koller &amp; Andrew Ng Excerpt: At MOOCs like\u00a0Coursera, offering web-based courses is the first step in increasing access to education for millions of people around the world. \u00a0But for many students, much of the value of taking a course is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,209,57,35,3,62,66],"tags":[768,807,290,585,566,453,251,601,603,572],"class_list":["post-34265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accreditation","category-changing-business-models","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-online-learning","category-student-related","tag-accreditation","tag-cfhe12","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-moocs","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-online-learning","tag-student-related","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34268,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265\/revisions\/34268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}