48 second clip<\/a> by Christenson and tell me if you do not see strong parallels to what we are facing with Google and other entrants into higher education.<\/p>\n\u201cLook across the sweep of business history, almost in every instance a company that at one point was widely regarded as unassailably successful a decade or two later you\u2019d find them in the middle of the pack or often at the bottom of the heap. I observed that, what is it that causes successful companies to fail is rarely that somebody beats them by coming into the market with a better product. But rather it\u2019s somebody that comes at the bottom of the market actually with a product that is not as good as the leaders are making but this one is just a lot simpler, a lot more affordable so that a much larger population of customers can now own it and use it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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I saw this article today about Google aggressively promoting its IT certificate program.\u00a0 While this primarily impacts North Caroline Community Colleges (for now), I see this creeping into our space.\u00a0 Why get a four year degree when you can get a certificate (for free) that leads to a $60K job?\u00a0 This is especially true for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myapps.northcarolina.edu\/digitallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}