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Recapping the year in digital learning -- and the developments that will last
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Microcredentials, MicroMasters, and Nanodegrees: What’s the Big Idea? | The EvoLLLution
- It’s worth noting that this first crop of microcredentials is being offered, not by colleges and universities, but rather non-traditional providers, some of which—like edX and Udacity—represent the newest incarnation of MOOCs
- their appeal is squarely vocational.
- EdX’s MicroMasters are “a Pathway to Today’s Top Jobs”—even though the programs are simply “graduate-level courses from top universities designed to advance your career.”
- It does raise the question, though: Why pursue a full master’s degree if five courses alone are enough to confer career success?
- The downsizing of the degree thus constitutes a rebuke to the higher education establishment, even if the establishment itself is creating them.
- Microcredentials—which, let’s face it, sound more grownup than “badges”—also address another problem: our all-or-nothing approach to conferring postsecondary credentials.
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