{"id":35167,"date":"2012-12-10T10:31:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=35167"},"modified":"2012-12-10T16:18:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:18:54","slug":"i-wonder-will-the-corporate-world-start-offering-their-own-moocsassessments-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/12\/10\/i-wonder-will-the-corporate-world-start-offering-their-own-moocsassessments-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"I wonder&#8230;will the corporate world start offering their own MOOCs\/assessments? [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiredacademic.com\/2012\/12\/citing-it-skills-shortage-ibm-wants-to-expand-presence-at-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Citing IT skills shortage, IBM wants to expand presence at universities<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wiredacademic.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC<\/span>):<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe want to be the scale up partner of choice for these universities,\u201d said Jim Sporher, head of IBM\u2019s university programs. \u201cWe want to make sure they have access to technology and understand our strategy.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> He also sees massive open online courses (MOOCs) as a mega-trend and will be considering ways for IBM to be part of the MOOC trend in the future, particularly as many of the MOOC providers such as Udacity and Coursera offer classes in computer science.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As a big blue-chip progenitor of the tech industry, IBM is worth listening to in many regards. For one, corporate computing trends often filter down into the education space. The corporate world often has the money to purchase and deploy game-changing technologies. IBM sees that it also works the other way too, where computing at the university level creates new businesses and ideas that move up into the corporate realm.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>I wonder&#8230;will the corporations develop their own MOOCs?<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>Their own digital &#8220;playlists&#8221; and associated exams<\/strong>? (i.e. that someone needs to go through and pass in order to work for them&#8230;<em>show me what you can <\/em>do<em>.<\/em>)\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mckinseyonsociety.com\/downloads\/reports\/Education\/Education-to-Employment-exec-summary_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35179 aligncenter\" title=\"McKinsey-EdToEmployment-Dec2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/McKinsey-EdToEmployment-Dec2012.jpg\" alt=\"McKinsey and Company -- Education to Employment -- An executive summary\" width=\"338\" height=\"437\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/McKinsey-EdToEmployment-Dec2012.jpg 338w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/McKinsey-EdToEmployment-Dec2012-116x150.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=422034&amp;c=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This could be huge&#8230;<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from timeshighereducation.co.uk by Zo\u00eb Corbyn<br \/>\n<em>MOOCs are already big &#8211; in reach and in hype &#8211; and are predicted to explode. Zo\u00eb Corbyn checks in to learn if they are more than just a novelty and to find out what it&#8217;s like to teach a class of 38,000<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/georgetown-to-offer-free-online-courses\/2012\/12\/09\/365c4612-3fd3-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Georgetown to offer free online courses<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from washingtonpost.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"-- from http:\/\/theinstitute.ieee.org\/ieee-roundup\/opinions\/ieee-roundup\/free-online-courses-could-change-engineering-education by Kathy Pretz\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free online courses could change Engineering education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from theinstitute.ieee.org by Kathy Pretz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing IT skills shortage, IBM wants to expand presence at universities &#8212; from wiredacademic.com Excerpt (emphasis DSC): \u201cWe want to be the scale up partner of choice for these universities,\u201d said Jim Sporher, head of IBM\u2019s university programs. \u201cWe want to make sure they have access to technology and understand our strategy.\u201d\u00a0 He also sees [&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":[113,174,45,112,200,57,159,72,286,143,505,239,62,299],"tags":[627,659,591,626,128,290,606,710,641,453,693,601,120,572,717],"class_list":["post-35167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-career-development","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-disruption","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-workplace","tag-21st-century","tag-career-development","tag-computer-science","tag-corporate-business-world","tag-corporate-training-universities","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-digital-learning","tag-disruption","tag-moocs","tag-new-business-models","tag-online-learning","tag-training","tag-walmart-of-education","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35167","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=35167"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35180,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35167\/revisions\/35180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}