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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

MOOCs: We will go against the grain a bit here and argue that MOOCs AREN’T DEAD. All the MOOCs out there. And all the quasi-MOOCs in higher education and CE: the cheap online master’s degrees that seemingly every big-name university is now offering. 2015 predictions. Plateau of Productivity. Our evidence?

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Learning from Big Learning: 15 Lessons

Leading Learning

Venture capital firms have jumped back into the game head first, massive open online course (MOOC) providers, originally rooted in universities, have gone public or been bought , and big Web firms like LinkedIn and Google have become major players. The MOOC 3. Yes, I know: most people sign up for MOOCs and never complete them.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

Information may want to be free, as some have suggested, and knowledge may be invaluable, but it became clear long ago that there is money to be made from all this learning activity. So it’s important to understand our perspective, which informs all that is written in this piece. It is not limited to adulthood or late adulthood.

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A Big Course From a Small Association

Associations Now

One executive at a state association has taken the lead on educating healthcare workers on a pressing national issue via a MOOC. So last fall she started thinking about a MOOC —short for massive open online course, which is designed to deliver education to students with various interests and learning styles, at a flexible pace.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

For learning businesses, it represents a tremendous opportunity for supporting social and informal learning, both of which are generally regarded as responsible for much, much more of our learning than formal education and training experiences are Informal learning. billion acquisition in 2015. The SaaS Explosion. Taylor here.).

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