{"id":89486,"date":"2023-11-17T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=89486"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:12:38","slug":"edx-jobs-for-the-future-offer-free-microbachelors-programs-lucariello-other-items-re-higher-education-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/11\/17\/edx-jobs-for-the-future-offer-free-microbachelors-programs-lucariello-other-items-re-higher-education-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"“edX & Jobs for the Future Offer Free MicroBachelors Programs” [Lucariello] + other items re: higher education in general"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unpacking 3 major trends in ed tech and for-profit education<\/strong><\/a> — from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz
\nCEOs of major companies recently told investors how they fared in their most recent financial quarters, offering insight into the broader higher ed sector.<\/em><\/p>\n

Education companies double down on degree programs
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\nThese programs allow Coursera users to count open courses they complete on the platform toward credit for degree programs. Students can also be admitted to degree programs based on their performance in these courses,Maggioncalda said.<\/p>\n

Coursera recently announced it had built several of these pathways to master\u2019s degrees offered by Illinois Tech.\u00a0Coursera users can now complete professional certificates offered on the website \u2014 including from Google, IBM and Meta \u2014 as credit toward these programs.<\/p>\n

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Report Finds Students Struggling with Being Prepared for Courses and Increasingly Turning to Generative AI, Social Media to Study<\/strong><\/a> — from campustechnology.com by Kate Lucariello<\/p>\n

In its second annual 2023 “Study Trends Report,”\u00a0McGraw Hill<\/a>\u00a0found that college students were feeling unprepared for their courses, but also that they have turned to generative AI and social media to study and would like more learning resources in a similar format.<\/p>\n

The study, conducted by\u00a0Morning Consult<\/a>\u00a0between July 18 and Aug. 11, 2023, surveyed 500 undergraduate college students and 200 college instructors. Some of the key findings include:<\/p>\n

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The Plot To Kill Shop Class<\/strong><\/a> — by Ryan Craig<\/p>\n

I suspect College Board may be trying to repent for its original sin: killing vocational education. Now known as career and technical education (CTE), America\u2019s college-or-bust mentality has long relegated CTE to a shadowy corner of high school.
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\nBut make no mistake: the College Board\u2019s fingerprints are on the weapon that killed CTE. College Board launched Advanced Placement courses in 1955 with 500 students across 18 elite schools like Andover, Bronx Science, and Newton High School. The original idea was guiltless: more challenging curricula for gifted and talented students to accelerate the development of leaders and win the Cold War. But it soon became clear that AP\u2019s primary purpose would be to give students a leg up in competitive college admissions; as early as 1960,\u00a0Exeter\u00a0worried about \u201ca dangerous tendency to regard advanced placement teachers and students as an elite worthy of special praise.\u201d<\/p>\n

When College Board\u2019s\u00a0primary source of revenue (and profits)\u00a0is AP courses and demand for AP is driven by a weighted GPA formula that discriminates against all other forms of education, any attempt to create a level playing field between career discovery and college is window dressing: CTE theater. College Board knows which side its bread is buttered on (hint: it\u2019s in its name).<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2U, USC Curtail Online Partnership<\/strong><\/a> — from insidehighered.com by Doug Lederman
\nSouthern California and the online program manager will part ways on master\u2019s degrees that became a target of scrutiny because of their high price.<\/em><\/p>\n

Which makes it fitting, perhaps, that Thursday\u00a02U and USC announced\u00a0that that they would largely wind down their 15-year partnership, which in the eyes of\u00a0consumer advocates\u00a0and\u00a0some journalists\u00a0had\u00a0come to exemplify\u00a0how involving companies intimately in the delivery of education could undermine, rather than expand, access and affordability to higher education.<\/p>\n

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edX and Jobs for the Future Offer Free MicroBachelors Programs<\/strong><\/a> — from campustechnology.com by Kate Lucariello<\/p>\n

Three MicroBachelor programs are currently available:<\/p>\n