What’s Next For Online Education

JEFF SELINGO, FEBRUARY 9, 2016

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2016Three ways higher education has changed in last five years

1. MOOCs focused conversation on new ways of teaching & Learning

2. The average is over: measuring "return on investment"

"…parents and students can use to compare schools based on a simple criteria: where you can get the most bang for your educational buck."

--- President Obama, 2013 State of the Union

3. New enrollment is down; stackable credentials are in

What’s Next: 5 trends to consider

1. The Jobs of the Future: What are we training students for?

“Having a B.A. is less about obtaining access to high-paying managerial and technology jobs and more about beating out less-educated workers for the barista and clerical job.”

Soft skills or hard skills?

25 skills appear in 3 out of every 4 job ads

2. A longer launch to adulthood

Median Wage

Source: Georgetown Center for Education & Workforce

Bridge programs to a job

3. The Hiring Process is Changing

4. A New Learning Economy

5. Hybrid Learning

“The Internet will stay around, but whether it will become a

significant commercial force is questionable. I don’t

picture the Web replacing television or newspaper

advertising in the next decade.”

– Peter Krivkovich,

president of Cramer-Krasselt

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