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What Happens When Digital Education Reaches Your Profession/Industry?

SCD Group

Massive open online courses, which are free and have attracted hundreds of thousands of learners but offer no degree, already have forced traditional higher education to re-examine how to reach more students at lower cost. Startup MOOCs who see education as more than for 18to 25-year-olds?

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Kickstarter Founder Launches Nonprofit Platform: A Dollar A Day

Beth Kanter

Dollar a Day was built by a mostly volunteer team collaborating over the course of a year (usually one night a week). Chen appears to be using “lean start up” principles with this (MVP). It will be interesting to see if it and how catches on and of course what they learn from the launch and how they pivot. this month.