{"id":73737,"date":"2021-01-13T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73737"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T20:27:36","slug":"as-an-alternative-to-a-full-masters-degree-edx-and-coursera-offer-micromasters-and-mastertrack-certificate-programs-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost-of-grad-school-leighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/01\/13\/as-an-alternative-to-a-full-masters-degree-edx-and-coursera-offer-micromasters-and-mastertrack-certificate-programs-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost-of-grad-school-leighton\/","title":{"rendered":"As an alternative to a full master&#8217;s degree, edX and Coursera offer MicroMasters and MasterTrack certificate programs at a fraction of the cost of grad school [Leighton]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/edx-micromaster-vs-coursera-mastertrack-online-masters-programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>As an alternative to a full master&#8217;s degree, edX and Coursera offer MicroMasters and MasterTrack certificate programs at a fraction of the cost of grad school<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from businessinsider.com by Mara Leighton; with thanks to Ray Schroeder for sharing this resource<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\">edX\u00a0and\u00a0Coursera\u00a0both offer cheap or free online graduate courses, many from\u00a0top universities\u00a0like\u00a0MIT,\u00a0Duke, and the\u00a0University of Michigan.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">edX MicroMasters\u00a0and\u00a0Coursera MasterTracks\u00a0are bite-sized portions of master&#8217;s degree programs.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">They can be used to build stand-alone skills\u00a0to advance your career\u00a0or as a stepping stone to a full master&#8217;s program.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">We compared MicroMasters and MasterTracks for you here. Overall, the deciding factor will be the program itself. But generally, edX&#8217;s offerings are cheaper, have more options, and are more lenient than Coursera&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an alternative to a full master&#8217;s degree, edX and Coursera offer MicroMasters and MasterTrack certificate programs at a fraction of the cost of grad school &#8212; from businessinsider.com by Mara Leighton; with thanks to Ray Schroeder for sharing this resource Excerpt: edX\u00a0and\u00a0Coursera\u00a0both offer cheap or free online graduate courses, many from\u00a0top universities\u00a0like\u00a0MIT,\u00a0Duke, and the\u00a0University [&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":[842,61,208,389,260,200,36,35,3,102,7,838,228,379,505,239,62,309,321,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-business-side-of-he","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-competency-based-learning-education","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-universities","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-preferences","category-mba","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-platforms","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73737","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=73737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73739,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73737\/revisions\/73739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}