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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

People who learned all this for the first time in 2017 were wading in the mucky waters of the Trough of Disillusionment, trying not to get pulled under. MOOCs: We will go against the grain a bit here and argue that MOOCs AREN’T DEAD. All the MOOCs out there. Plateau of Productivity. Our evidence? Conclusion.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

In 2017, The Economist declared lifelong learning an “economic imperative,” and it has hardly been the only publication in mainstream and business presses to insist on the importance of learning in a world where the scale, scope, and speed of change seem much higher than ever before. billion in 2015.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

That same year saw the launch of Barbara Oakley’s massive open online course, or MOOC, Learning How to Learn , on Coursera. One watershed moment in this shift was when the venerable business publication The Economist ran a special report in 2017 proclaiming that “ Lifelong learning is becoming an economic imperative.” Taylor here.).

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