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Badges Earned Online Are Rapidly Becoming an Alternative to College Degrees

January 11, 2012 in Sub1

Badges awarded for mastery of online courses, often free, are popping up all over the internet.   For example, Stanford University, People to People University, and The Khan Academy offer a range of similar forms of certification, free so far. MIT has announced that it will begin such a program this Spring. The Chronicle of Higher Education has just published a great article, ‘Badges’ Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas, indicating the seriousness of these efforts.
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MIT Initiates the Second Wave of the Open Education Movement

December 19, 2011 in Uncategorized

MIT revolutionized Open Education by putting all of its courses online, free for anyone seeking the knowledge offered. Today they initiated the second wave by announcing the intention to offer certification of mastery of their courses to anyone completing the requirements, for a small fee: MIT launches online learning initiative. Read the rest of this entry →

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Acquire the Skills and Knowledge to Cope with our New Economy

October 19, 2011 in Main

Our intent is to help you acquire the resources and skills you need to cope with our new work environment.

The economy is restructuring and we are going to have to change our strategies for survival and success.  Each of us is going to have to find our own way, to develop a new mind set, to develop new skills, a new approach to our work lives.  The future is uncertain and we need to be flexible.

Most of us need to acquire new skills and new ways of thinking.   The Open Education Movement has made free self-education very accessible.   We need only to find our vision, to get organized and to find the self discipline to follow through.

Some examples of free educational resources in the US and UK are:

United Kingdom

The Open University

United States

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tufts University
UMass Boston
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of Notre Dame
Utah OpenCourseWare Alliance
Utah State University

There are many more universities and repositories around the world in many languages. For a more complete list see LearnatNexus.com.

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