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2. University of Phoenix - Wikipedia

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   University of Phoenix. University of Phoenix [3] ( UoPX) is a private for-profit university headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. [a] Founded in 1976, the university confers certificates and degrees at the certificate, associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree levels.

3. Online learning in higher education - Wikipedia

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   Online learning involves courses offered by primary institutions that are 100% virtual. Online learning, or virtual classes offered over the internet, is contrasted with traditional courses taken in a brick-and-mortar school building. It is a development in distance education that expanded in the 1990s with the spread of the commercial Internet ...

4. Massachusetts governor leans into the skills-based hiring ...

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   About 75% of U.S. jobs paying more than $35,000 a year still require a college degree, Lisa Gevelber, Google’s chief marketing officer for the Americas, told Fortune, despite the fact that just ...

5. Higher education in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Online education: MOOCs and OPMs. Online education has grown in the early 21st century.In 2017, about 15% of all students attended exclusively online, and competition for online students has been increasing. A MOOC is a massive open online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. It became popular in 2010–14.

6. For-profit higher education in the United States - Wikipedia

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   For-profit colleges grew again from 1972 to 1976, after the Higher Education Act of 1965, part of President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" of progressive reforms, was amended so that for-profit colleges could receive Pell Grants and federal student loans. University of Phoenix was a pioneer as a for-profit mega-university, schools of over ...

7. Clayton Christensen - Wikipedia

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   Clayton Christensen. Clayton Magleby Christensen (April 6, 1952 – January 23, 2020) was an American academic and business consultant who developed the theory of "disruptive innovation", which has been called the most influential business idea of the early 21st century. [1] [2] Christensen introduced "disruption" in his 1997 book The Innovator ...