{"id":82356,"date":"2022-08-20T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=82356"},"modified":"2022-08-20T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:35:51","slug":"what-a-new-strategy-at-2u-means-for-the-future-of-online-higher-education-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/08\/20\/what-a-new-strategy-at-2u-means-for-the-future-of-online-higher-education-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"What a New Strategy at 2U Means for the Future of Online Higher Education [Hill]"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a New Strategy at 2U Means for the Future of Online Higher Education<\/strong> <\/a>— from edsurge.com by Phil Hill<\/p>\n

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The acceleration is that 2U is going all in on the\u00a0education platform strategy\u00a0that started with\u00a0the company\u2019s acquisition of edX last year. The idea at the time was to rely on a flywheel effect, where edX can upsell to its tens of millions of registered learners taking free or low-cost online courses known as MOOCs, thus driving down the marketing costs required for the OPM business, while offering a spectrum of options\u2014from free MOOCs to stackable certificates, to bootcamps and short courses, all the way to full degrees. The flywheel aspect is that the more the strategy succeeds, the more revenue is made by institutional partners and by the company, leading to more free courses and registered learners. It\u2019s a self-reinforcing strategy that is the same one followed by Coursera.
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What a New Strategy at 2U Means for the Future of Online Higher Education — from edsurge.com by Phil Hill Excerpt: The acceleration is that 2U is going all in on the\u00a0education platform strategy\u00a0that started with\u00a0the company\u2019s acquisition of edX last year. The idea at the time was to rely on a flywheel effect, where […]<\/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":[113,329,61,86,209,115,302,260,57,36,35,3,74,7,510,505,239,62,20,321,214,13,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-strategy","category-united-states","category-universities","category-using-teams","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82356","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=82356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82359,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82356\/revisions\/82359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}