{"id":73834,"date":"2021-01-19T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73834"},"modified":"2021-01-25T14:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T19:52:29","slug":"mooc-enrollment-explodes-in-2020-schaffhauser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/01\/19\/mooc-enrollment-explodes-in-2020-schaffhauser\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOC Enrollment Explodes in 2020 [Schaffhauser]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2021\/01\/05\/mooc-enrollment-explodes-in-2020.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MOOC Enrollment Explodes in 2020<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from campustechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">According to a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.classcentral.com\/report\/the-second-year-of-the-mooc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.classcentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Class Central<\/a>, a company that tracks massive open online courses, of all learners who have registered for MOOCs throughout their history, a third did so last year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coursera<\/a>, the largest MOOC operator, added nearly four times the number of new registered users, exploding from 8 million in 2019 to 31 million in 2020 \u2014 a rise of 387 percent. Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, estimated that Coursera&#8217;s total number of users is currently 76 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Whereas topics in technology, business and career development dominated pre-COVID-19, during the pandemic learners focused on wider interests: Art and design, self-improvement, the humanities, communication skills, health &amp; medicine and foreign languages surfaced in the top 10 subjects.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classcentral.com\/report\/the-second-year-of-the-mooc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73869 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-registered-users.png\" alt=\"MOOC Enrollment Explodes in 2020\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-registered-users.png 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-registered-users-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-registered-users-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOOC Enrollment Explodes in 2020 &#8212; from campustechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser Excerpt: According to a new\u00a0report\u00a0by\u00a0Class Central, a company that tracks massive open online courses, of all learners who have registered for MOOCs throughout their history, a third did so last year.\u00a0Coursera, the largest MOOC operator, added nearly four times the number of new registered [&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":[113,329,374,842,277,387,174,86,208,433,135,36,359,102,7,510,15,505,62,133,309,436,480,310,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-adult-learning","category-alternatives","category-art","category-business","category-career-development","category-change","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-communications","category-design","category-future-of-higher-education","category-health","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-lifelong-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-platforms","category-reinvent","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834","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=73834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73870,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834\/revisions\/73870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}