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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

Faculty Focus

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. OER and No/Low-Cost Textbooks: The program makes significant use of both.

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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

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Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe.

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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

Faculty Focus

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. OER and No/Low-Cost Textbooks: The program makes significant use of both.