A report from the U.S. Census Bureau says that in the fall of 2012, more than 50 million U.S. adults, or one in four, had obtained a professional certification, license or educational certificate apart from a postsecondary degree awarded by colleges and universities. This is the Census Bureau’s first-ever report on this topic.
Continue reading… “1 in 4 adults hold educational credentials other than an academic degree”
Higher education is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change.
The quintessential value proposition of higher education has always been the degree or certificate. Americans have embraced degrees with a fervor. Everyone should have degrees. And their perceived value elsewhere in the world — in Asia in particular — is if anything even higher.
Continue reading… “The future of the degree is doomed”
A typical MOOC is an online course open to people all over the globe via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive open online courses that have been heralded as an inevitable transformation in higher education. They have been called a revolution, a boom, and, a “disruption” – a term that at first invokes a welcome alternative to the stagnation and elitism of the American university.
Continue reading… “When MOOCs profit, who pays?”
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