{"id":65587,"date":"2018-12-29T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65587"},"modified":"2018-12-27T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T22:25:29","slug":"moocs-are-dead-welcome-mooc-based-degrees-plus-coursera-edx-udacity-grew-their-businesses-by-20-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/12\/29\/moocs-are-dead-welcome-mooc-based-degrees-plus-coursera-edx-udacity-grew-their-businesses-by-20-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;MOOCs are dead, welcome MOOC-based degrees&#8221; plus &#8220;Coursera, edX, Udacity grew their businesses by 20%+ in 2018&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblnews.org\/2018\/12\/03\/moocs-are-dead-welcome-mooc-based-degrees\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MOOCs are dead, welcome MOOC-based degrees<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from\u00a0iblnews.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblnews.org\/2018\/12\/23\/coursera-edx-udacity-grew-their-businesses-by-over-20-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Coursera, edX, Udacity grew their businesses by over 20% in 2018<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from\u00a0iblnews.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblnews.org\/2018\/12\/07\/reinventing-the-college-degree-a-future-with-modular-credentials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Reinventing the College Degree: A Future with Modular Credentials\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from\u00a0iblnews.org<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rapidly changing technology is impacting the workforce and the economy,\u00a0highlighting the need to be continually learning and refreshing skills in order to stay relevant. Additionally, the jobs of the future will require a set of skills from a variety of subject areas.\u00a0<em>\u201cWe have to rethink our education system,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0writes\u00a0Anant Agarwal, CEO at edX, on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1469291\/future-proofing-higher-education-starts-with-reinventing-the-college-degree\/\">column in Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of Mr. Agarwal\u2019s ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lego-like modular education&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>MOOCs at scale, with personalized pacing\u00a0and\u00a0open admissions&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Modular credentials&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOOCs are dead, welcome MOOC-based degrees &#8212; from\u00a0iblnews.org &nbsp; Coursera, edX, Udacity grew their businesses by over 20% in 2018\u00a0&#8212; from\u00a0iblnews.org &nbsp; Also see: Reinventing the College Degree: A Future with Modular Credentials\u00a0&#8212; from\u00a0iblnews.org Excerpt: Rapidly changing technology is impacting the workforce and the economy,\u00a0highlighting the need to be continually learning and refreshing skills in [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,174,115,302,32,37,36,35,3,15,505,239,44,69,309,436,66,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-education-technology","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-lifelong-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-pace-of-change","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-platforms","category-reinvent","category-student-related","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65587","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=65587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65593,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65587\/revisions\/65593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}