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MOOC Pathways for AP Success The Advanced Placement Program (AP) is a university-level program created by the College Board to enable high school students to earn credit (points toward an undergraduate degree) or advanced placement (being exempt from an introductory level university course). There are currently 34 AP examinations available which are designed to test a student's knowledge & skills in a particular discipline, and are recognized by more than 4,000 universities worldwide...

MicroMasters, XSeries & Professional Certificates With 3 different MOOC-based credentials currently being offered by edX, potential students may find themselves scratching their heads in confusion. EdX was the first MOOC provider to offer multiple-course certificate programs known as XSeries which are designed for more in-depth learning than the single course options. Two years later, edX launched the MicroMasters™ credential - "a series of graduate level courses from top universities...

LinkedIn recently posted a list of The Most In-Demand Jobs Right Now showing which jobs saw the biggest spikes in demand over the past month, along with the roles attracting the most demand overall. The results show a high demand for in-person essential workers, but also those jobs that help companies build a virtual presence - a trend that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, demand is rising for jobs like application developer, search engine optimization (SEO)...

Founded in 1575, Leiden University is the oldest university in the Netherlands. Today, the university is at the forefront of online education in Europe, and has been delivering MOOCs to a global audience since 2013, currently with a portfolio of over 30 courses available on Coursera. Now, Europe’s leading social learning platform, FutureLearn have recently announced a new partnership with Leiden University to expand its online learning offering. The university plans to launch courses in...

This year's IEEE Learning With MOOCS Conference was held in October 2019 at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and welcomed some prestigious Keynote speakers from academia and industry to discuss learning analytics, key stakeholders, micro-credentials, machine learning and more. Here are some of the topics that caught my interest: Speaking about ways to evaluate the quality of MOOCs, Kerrie Douglas, Assistant Professor at Purdue University said that leveraging MOOCs to make education...