edX Drops Plans to Connect MOOC Students With Employers
Wired Campus 2013-12-20
Summary:
Can taking a MOOC help a student land a better job? Proponents of the massive open online courses hope so. Each of the major MOOC providers—Coursera, edX, and Udacity—has expressed interest in helping connect employers to well-qualified job applicants who succeed in their online courses. But now, after a failed experiment, edX says it is giving up on job-placement services.
That was among several developments described last month to members of edX’s consortium in a private meeting during which a...