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The final year projects and mini projects are considered to be the important parts of the engineering education system. The projects done by students in their curriculum play an important role fo...

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An "All You Can Eat" College Degree Could Be The Future Of Higher Education | Co.Exist ... - 0 views

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The model is fundamentally different, however, than any other adult bachelor programs that you’ve heard of. Students will pay a flat subscription fee of $2,250 for three month’s of “all you can eat” access. During that time. they’ll be able to use the school’s instructional content online, its advisors, and other resources. More importantly, they’ll be welcome to try to pass as many “competency tests” as they want.
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“We are in essence creating a virtual university--a new one,” says Ray Cross, Chancellor of UW Colleges and UW-Extension. “What is a full-time student in a self-paced competency-based model? Well, we’ve got to define that.”
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Only 10 students will be accepted for each degree program in January 2014, but as the program expands, Cross says the “sky is the limit,” especially given how many students are open to self-taught online courses around the world.
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The Lumina Foundation just awarded the university a $1.25 million grant to evaluate the program and document its creation so that it can be replicated at other schools.
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For public universities, new ways of thinking about fundamental business models are becoming a necessity. “Our reliance on state funding is shrinking, and that’s true in every state that I'm aware of,” says Cross. “But it’s increasingly difficult for students to afford higher education costs at all levels. That is not a sustainable trend. It just is not. We need to seek alternatives.”
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Description of Wisconsin's "Flex Degrees." Pay $2,250 for three months and learn and test as much as you want.

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Group of seven major universities seeks to offer online microcredentials | InsideHigherEd - 3 views

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Tentatively dubbed the University Learning Store, the project is a joint effort involving the Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, the University of Washington, the University of California’s Davis, Irvine and Los Angeles campuses, and the University of Wisconsin Extension.
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The idea is to create an “alternative credentialing process that would provide students with credentials that are much shorter and cheaper than conventional degrees,”
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As with a department store, Schejbal said, the University Learning Store is about offering students different products from different providers.
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“Those distinctions start to fade” with microcredentials, Bushway said. “The degree is almost a distraction.”
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Schejbal said the project’s pricing would be of the “freemium” model. That means some of the content would be free, but students would have to spend money when the universities do.
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“Students really do need to come in and out of education across a lifetime,” said Schejbal, adding that the microcredential project is “looking at people who need them regardless of their degree level.”
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Tutoring or other support services would also be fee based.
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“Students will be able to buy these à la carte,” said Schejbal, “or in a package.”
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The planned online store would not be designed to be federal aid eligible,
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The quality of the microcredentials in many ways will hinge on the assessments students must successfully complete to earn them
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The project’s leaders had been working with an outside provider to help build the platform. But Schejbal said the universities eventually had to change gears and begin an open-bid process. That sort of red tape, which affects public universities much more than ed-tech companies, is an example of the challenges the University Learning Store likely will face. (All but one of the group of seven universities are public.)
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Assessments would come with a price, he said, in part because they would be graded by people rather than computers.
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The plan is for some of the online content to feature modular instruction, said Schejbal, meaning instructors will interact with students as they progress through the material -- as with a conventional online course, but for a shorter duration.
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Students will be able to use online content and assessments -- with pieces from different universities -- to prove what they know and can do.
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“We’re imagining that this would be cheap enough for a student to afford without financial aid,”
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