{"id":65869,"date":"2019-01-18T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65869"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:23:02","slug":"massive-online-courses-find-a-new-audience-with-continuing-medical-education-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/01\/18\/massive-online-courses-find-a-new-audience-with-continuing-medical-education-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Online Courses Find A New Audience With Continuing Medical Education\u00a0[Johnson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2019-01-17-massive-online-courses-find-a-new-audience-with-continuing-medical-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Massive Online Courses Find A New Audience With Continuing Medical Education<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from edsurge.com by Sydney Johnson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Applications are\u00a0surging\u00a0for New York University\u2019s School of Medicine after the university announced last year that its medical program would be tuition-free for all students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But NYU isn\u2019t the only school trying to offer free medical training. Dozens of colleges and universities are taking courses in healthcare and medicine online\u2014and making them free or low-cost\u2014with massive online course platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Coursera, a company that hosts massive online courses and degrees, is the latest entrant among a growing number of online education providers that are entering the medical space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[On 1\/17\/19], the Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced it will be adding an entire healthcare vertical with 100 new courses and 30 new \u201cSpecializations,\u201d or what the company calls its paid bundles of courses that students can earn a certificate for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It is also announcing two new online degrees: a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Master of Public Health from Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive Online Courses Find A New Audience With Continuing Medical Education\u00a0&#8212; from edsurge.com by Sydney Johnson Excerpt: Applications are\u00a0surging\u00a0for New York University\u2019s School of Medicine after the university announced last year that its medical program would be tuition-free for all students. But NYU isn\u2019t the only school trying to offer free medical training. Dozens of [&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":[359,3,7,510,15,505,239,62,38,321,214,367,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-lifelong-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-uk","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869","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=65869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65870,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65869\/revisions\/65870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}