{"id":51466,"date":"2015-08-14T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=51466"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:45:28","slug":"group-of-seven-major-universities-seeks-to-offer-online-microcredentials-fain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/08\/14\/group-of-seven-major-universities-seeks-to-offer-online-microcredentials-fain\/","title":{"rendered":"Group of seven major universities seeks to offer online microcredentials [Fain]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/08\/14\/group-seven-major-universities-seeks-offer-online-microcredentials\" target=\"_blank\">Establishment goes alternative<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Paul Fain<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Traditional colleges have been mostly on the sidelines for the early development of online microcredentials or badges &#8212; the kind that aren&#8217;t linked to conventional courses and the credit hour. Educational technology companies and other alternative providers have taken the lead in working with employers on these skills-based credentials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A new prototype from a group of seven brand-name universities could change that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tentatively dubbed the University Learning Store, the project is a joint effort involving the Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, the University of Washington, the University of California\u2019s Davis, Irvine and Los Angeles campuses, and the University of Wisconsin Extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Establishment goes alternative &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Paul Fain Excerpt: Traditional colleges have been mostly on the sidelines for the early development of online microcredentials or badges &#8212; the kind that aren&#8217;t linked to conventional courses and the credit hour. Educational technology companies and other alternative providers have taken the lead in working with employers [&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":[533,3,239,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimentation","category-higher-education","category-new-business-models","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51467,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51466\/revisions\/51467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}