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Short comparison of revenue and profit of these 3 players.

Moocs and money. $7k Masters, down from $40k.

The movie industry uses someone's music without authorisation in an anti-piracy video.  They first refuse to deal with it then try and cream money from any deal. The irony weeps from every pore!

"Some might argue that the analytics tools at our disposal are currently mainly used for boring purposes, such as improving processes and making money. In this paper we will try to define learning analytics and their purpose for learning and education. We will ponder on the best possible fit of particular types of research methods and their analysis. Methodological concerns related to the analysis of Big Data collected on online networks as well as ethical and privacy concerns will also be highlighted and a case study of the use of learning analytics in a Massive Open Online Course explored."

Some thoughts on how Coursera might make money - and some insights into how they currently organise e.g. more than $1m per staff member in venture capital available.

How do we make money out of Mooc's? Charge students a full course fee to convert to credit!

"The question I'd ask: is the money that mass-marketing colleges are spending on marketing themselves and scaling themselves well spent? Are they organizing for changing lives or for ranking high? Does NYU have to get so much bigger? Why?"

"if you change the technology but not the method of learning, then you are throwing bad money after bad practice"

Two Potential Futures Our forecast suggests that the learning ecosystem is going to diversify, and indeed has already started to do so. At the American Alliance of Museums' convening on the future of education Glimpses of the Future of Education By Katherine Prince, Senior Director, Strategic Foresight, KnowledgeWorks A detail of a KnowledgeWorks infographic on the future of learning. For the complete infographic go to knowledgeworks. org/strategic-foresight. 1 ® Glimpses of Future Educationin September, I had the pleasure of sharing two plausible scenarios for how the future may take shape. We could find ourselves living in: * a vibrant learning grid in which all of us who care about learning create a flexible and radically personalized learning ecosystem that meets the needs of all learners, or * a fractured landscape in which only those whose families have the time, money and resources to customize or supplement their learning journeys have access to learning that adapts to and meets their needs.

How advertising told females that computing was nothing to do with them. Discrimination 101.

'Mooc' that's offering Uni credit for US$440

An open MOOC but pay for assessment if you want.

Interesting way of describing a course. While you're on the Coursera website check out the range of free courses. Should we be worried?

Mike ''MOD'' O'Donnell from TradeMe on why the TPP is bad for copyright and bad for consumers.