{"id":77853,"date":"2021-12-17T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77853"},"modified":"2021-12-17T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T14:44:47","slug":"uncs-97-million-plan-to-reach-adult-online-learners-smalley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/12\/17\/uncs-97-million-plan-to-reach-adult-online-learners-smalley\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC\u2019s $97 Million Plan to Reach Adult Online Learners [Smalley]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/unc-system-launch-ambitious-97-million-ed-tech-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>UNC\u2019s $97 Million Plan to Reach Adult Online Learners<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from insidehighered.com by Suzanne Smalley<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina will create an internal unit to build and manage online programs from the system\u2019s 17 campuses for learners largely ignored by many universities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The University of North Carolina system is leveraging\u00a0$97\u00a0million\u00a0in pandemic\u00a0recovery funding to launch a nonprofit ed-tech start-up intended to bolster adult online education in a state with a looming need for more skilled workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Project Kitty Hawk\u00a0is named after the North Carolina beach town the\u00a0Wright brothers\u00a0returned to repeatedly before achieving their dream of flight, an apt metaphor for an undertaking that UNC leaders herald as a transformative effort to reach the state\u2019s estimated one million\u00a0working adults who have some college education but no degree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC\u2019s $97 Million Plan to Reach Adult Online Learners &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Suzanne Smalley University of North Carolina will create an internal unit to build and manage online programs from the system\u2019s 17 campuses for learners largely ignored by many universities. Excerpt: The University of North Carolina system is leveraging\u00a0$97\u00a0million\u00a0in pandemic\u00a0recovery funding to launch [&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":[374,260,3,15,62,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-higher-education","category-lifelong-learning","category-online-learning","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77853","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=77853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77855,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77853\/revisions\/77855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}