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"In this report, we've been able to measure for the first time how many people take another route to a productive career: holding an alternative educational credential independent of traditional college degrees. It turns out that millions of people have taken this path," added Ewert. These alternative credentials include professional certifications, licenses and educational certificates. The fields of these professional certifications and licenses were wide-ranging and include business/finance management, nursing, education, cosmetology and culinary arts, among others. The report shows that, in general, these alternative credentials provide a path to higher earnings. Among full-time workers, the median monthly earnings for someone with a professional certification or license only was $4,167, compared with $3,433 for one with an educational certificate only; $3,920 for those with both types of credentials; and $3,110 for people without any alternative credential. Via Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 
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February 17, 2014 12:41 PM
Certification or alternative credentials have the most positive impact for workers with no college or an associate's degree. Nice to have this benchmark. The more we learn the more we have to change.
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Over the next few weeks, WCET will publish a series of blog posts on Massively Open Online Courses. This, the first in the series, provides a detailed explanation of how ACE (the American Council on Education) assessed five Coursera courses. ACE represents the presidents of U.S. accredited, degree-granting institutions, which include two- and four-year colleges, private and public universities, and nonprofit and for-profit entities. Pat Book, the author of the post, is a Former Assistant Vice President at the American Council on Education, and led the process for assessing the courses. - See more at: http://www.tonybates.ca/2013/07/26/an-explanation-of-how-ace-accredits-moocs/#sthash.YZvGpT1x.dpuf
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We look at what MOOC sessions have been submitted at SXSWedu 2016 and what they tell us about the future of MOOCs. Via ECO Project EU
ECO Project EU's curator insight,
August 31, 2015 4:17 AM
Credentials will be the hot topic for MOOCs in 2016 according to SXSWedu.
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Open Badges are online indicators of skills learned inside or outside the classroom. In order to understand how badges might be used to support learning and development in higher education, Ian Glo... Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Alfredo Corell
James Jandebeur's curator insight,
November 22, 2013 9:48 AM
Now you can earn game achievements in learning new things. Considering how popular this simple idea seems to be in gaming, it should be effective. Some form of feedback, especially if it is immediate and pleasing in some way, is usually helpful. 
Dawn Wright's curator insight,
November 27, 2013 5:35 PM
I don't know if this will replace paid credits, but it is a start toward a new paradiam 
Paul Avila's curator insight,
November 30, 2013 9:57 PM
This is an interesting idea to use in the classroom. It would motivate students to improve their skills to achieve these badges. I would suggest implementing these with some incentive system so that students pursue these badges instead of earning them passively as useless labels. These badges can be useful to track progress of historical thinking skills. |
