{"id":71911,"date":"2020-08-23T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71911"},"modified":"2020-08-23T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:49:55","slug":"alternative-credentials-scaled-degrees-and-the-new-higher-ed-matthew-effect-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/08\/23\/alternative-credentials-scaled-degrees-and-the-new-higher-ed-matthew-effect-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Credentials, Scaled Degrees, and the New Higher Ed Matthew Effect [Kim]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/learning-innovation\/alternative-credentials-scaled-degrees-and-new-higher-ed-matthew-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Alternative Credentials, Scaled Degrees, and the New Higher Ed Matthew Effect<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Joshua Kim<br \/>\n<em>The potential impact of elite-branded affordable online certificates and degrees on regionally-branded tuition-dependent colleges and universities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I pulled those quotes from the 8\/10\/20\u00a0IHE article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2020\/08\/10\/surge-alternative-credentials-holds-steady-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">At Home, Workers Seek Alternative Credentials<\/a>. Given the crazy times, I&#8217;m not sure if that article is getting the attention across higher ed that it deserves. Everyone is entirely focused on the near-term challenges of academic continuity during the pandemic. And that is the right place to be focusing. You can&#8217;t plan for the long-term when the short-term is so unstable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But today, I&#8217;m going to ask you to do just that. If you can, step back from thinking about COVID-19 and what is happening to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Low-Density-University-Scenarios-Higher-Education-ebook\/dp\/B08F2QPWDK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">your school in the fall<\/a>, and give some thought to the medium-to-long-term impact of the rise of alternative credentials and scaled degrees to your institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">First, let me ask you a question. How does your school balance its books? Where does the money come from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Credentials, Scaled Degrees, and the New Higher Ed Matthew Effect &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Joshua Kim The potential impact of elite-branded affordable online certificates and degrees on regionally-branded tuition-dependent colleges and universities. Excerpt: I pulled those quotes from the 8\/10\/20\u00a0IHE article\u00a0At Home, Workers Seek Alternative Credentials. Given the crazy times, I&#8217;m not sure if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[61,86,209,115,302,57,286,346,36,35,7,510,15,379,505,62,436,480,310,20,212,321,214,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-lifelong-learning","category-mba","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-online-learning","category-reinvent","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911","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=71911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71912,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911\/revisions\/71912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}