{"id":44637,"date":"2014-02-05T18:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T23:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44637"},"modified":"2014-02-06T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:00:48","slug":"texas-rolls-out-an-affordable-baccalaureate-degree-a-for-profit-u-will-accept-mooc-credits-other-he-related-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/02\/05\/texas-rolls-out-an-affordable-baccalaureate-degree-a-for-profit-u-will-accept-mooc-credits-other-he-related-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rolls Out an \u2018Affordable Baccalaureate\u2019 Degree, a For-Profit U will accept MOOC credits, &#038; other HE-related items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/texas-rolls-out-an-affordable-baccalaureate-degree\/50119\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rolls Out an \u2018Affordable Baccalaureate\u2019 Degree<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Lawrence Biemiller<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Two years after Gov. Rick Perry of Texas called on the state\u2019s colleges to offer bachelor\u2019s degrees that would cost students <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Getting-Down-to-the-Reality-of\/137637\/\">no more than $10,000 each,<\/a> two institutions rolled out a joint bachelor-of-applied-science program last month that they say can be completed in three years for not much more than the governor\u2019s target amount.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/quickwire-for-profit-university-will-accept-mooc-credits\/49805\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>QuickWire: For-Profit University Will Accept MOOC Credits<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Bridgepoint Education\u2019s Ashford University, which offers courses both online and on a campus in Clinton, Iowa, said on Friday that it would allow students to earn credits toward degrees by taking \u201cselected\u201d massive open online courses offered through two of the three big online-course providers, Coursera and Udacity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Administrator-Hiring-Drove-28-\/144519\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Administrator Hiring Drove 28% Boom in Higher-Ed Work Force, Report Says<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Scott Carlson<\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<header><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/header>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Thirty-four pages of research, branded with a staid title and rife with complicated graphs, might not seem like a scintillating read, but there\u2019s no doubt that a report released on Wednesday will punch higher education&#8217;s hot buttons in a big way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The report, &#8220;Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive: Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns in Higher Education,&#8221; says that new administrative positions\u2014particularly in student services\u2014drove a 28-percent expansion of the higher-ed work force from 2000 to 2012. The report was released by the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltacostproject.org\/\"> Delta Cost Project,<\/a> a nonprofit, nonpartisan social-science organization whose researchers analyze college finances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><em>Also see:<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltacostproject.org\/sites\/default\/files\/products\/DeltaCostAIR_Staffing_Brief_2_3_14.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44639\" alt=\"LaborIntensiveOrLaborExpensive-Feb2014\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LaborIntensiveOrLaborExpensive-Feb2014.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LaborIntensiveOrLaborExpensive-Feb2014.jpg 525w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LaborIntensiveOrLaborExpensive-Feb2014-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhat-related postings:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bryanalexander.org\/2014\/01\/27\/how-will-education-race-the-machines\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How will education race the\u00a0machines?<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from bryanalexander.org by Bryan Alexander<br \/>\n<em>What will the increasing automation of jobs mean for education?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/futurist\/january-february-2014-vol-48-no-1\/putting-machine-testing-test\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Putting machine testing to the test | Next-gen educ standards meet next-gen scoring methods, but with controversy.<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wfs.org by Randall Mayes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Robotic testing? Artificial intelligence could speed up the grading of standardized tests, offering more-consistent and unbiased assessment of essays.\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/Upload\/pictures\/futuristjf2014_bigstock_26412716_web.jpg?1386117251\" width=\"300\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 GUDRON \/ BIGSTOCK<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rolls Out an \u2018Affordable Baccalaureate\u2019 Degree &#8212; from chronicle.com by Lawrence Biemiller Excerpt: Two years after Gov. Rick Perry of Texas called on the state\u2019s colleges to offer bachelor\u2019s degrees that would cost students no more than $10,000 each, two institutions rolled out a joint bachelor-of-applied-science program last month that they say can be [&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":[356,61,86,209,57,3,505],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-higher-education","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44637","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=44637"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44659,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44637\/revisions\/44659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}