{"id":135,"date":"2017-04-28T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2018-02-15T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T19:27:28","slug":"tuck-launches-dartmouths-first-edx-certificate-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/tuck-launches-dartmouths-first-edx-certificate-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuck Launches Dartmouth&#8217;s First EdX Certificate Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qsFDZjLyalo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week, Tuck School of Business launched the first Dartmouth professional certificate program in partnership with online platform, edX. The program,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/professional-certificate\/retail-omnichannel-management?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=studentnewsletter_actives_20170425&amp;utm_content=course-announcements-mailing-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retail and Omnichannel Management<\/a>, is designed like edX&#8217;s other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/professional-certificate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professional certificate programs<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0learners to &#8220;develop the critical skills needed for today&#8217;s top jobs\u00a0through a series of in-demand courses.&#8221; Courses in the series include Retail Fundamentals and Omnichannel Strategy and Management, and are taught by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuck.dartmouth.edu\/faculty\/faculty-directory\/santiago-gallino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santiago Gallino<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellogg.northwestern.edu\/faculty\/directory\/moreno-garcia_antonio.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antonio Morena-Garcia<\/a>, Associate Professor of Operations at the Kellogg School of Management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an example of the new types of learning experiences being offered online,&#8221; says Instructional Desinger and DartmouthX project lead Mike Goudzwaard, a partner in developing the Tuck certificate program. &#8220;Many early MOOCs (massive open online courses) were adapted from traditional residential\u00a0courses, but now MOOCs are being offered in variety of ways, and for many different purposes. This\u00a0allows learners to tailor their experiences to their own unique\u00a0goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the emerging trends in digital learning, Goudzwaard cites\u00a0courses addressing current events and timely topics, such as the University of Michigan&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ai.umich.edu\/teach-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teach Out Series<\/a>\u00a0and Davidson College&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidson.edu\/news\/news-stories\/161027-davidson-now-offers-teaching-and-discourse-on-timely-topics-free-and-online-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pop-up courses<\/a>, and courses and program aimed at developing specific\u00a0job skills, like Tuck&#8217;s retail management offerings. Some even provide advanced standing for students entering Masters degree programs through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/micromasters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EdX Micromasters\u00a0<\/a>model. The emergence of a Tuck certificate program follows on Dartmouth&#8217;s initial success in offering courses throguh edX. To date,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dcal.dartmouth.edu\/initiatives\/digital-learning\/dartmouthx\">DartmouthX<\/a>\u00a0has offered five online courses registering more than 91,000 learners. Of these, 15% (roughly twice the MOOC average) have sustained deep engagement with the course throughout its run.<\/p>\n<p>For Professor Gallino,\u00a0offering a certificate program\u00a0through edX is an opportunity to add to a limited body of\u00a0educational offerings on the topic of retail. Through the program, Gallino and colleague Morena-Garcia can provide high-quality instruction and resources to learners, while also offering a guided sequence from one course to the next. In a world of seemingly unlimited online course\u00a0offerings (more than 1,400 courses available at this moment from EdX alone), this guidance can be invaluable to learners interested in meeting\u00a0personal and professional goals.<\/p>\n<p>Tuck&#8217;s Retail and Omnichannel Management certificate program begins May 10. Other upcoming DartmouthX courses include Bipedalism: The Evolution of Upright Walking, Free Will, Attention, Top-Down Causation, and Consciousness in the Brain, John Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost, Materials in Gear, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/professional-certificate\/retail-omnichannel-management?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=studentnewsletter_actives_20170425&amp;utm_content=course-announcements-mailing-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/professional-certificate\/retail-omnichannel-management?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=studentnewsletter_actives_20170425&amp;utm_content=course-announcements-mailing-list\">earn more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>This post first appeared on the website of the <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dcal.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/tuck-launches-dartmouths-first-edx-certificate-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Tuck School of Business launched the first Dartmouth professional certificate program in partnership with online platform, edX. The program,\u00a0Retail and Omnichannel Management, is designed like edX&#8217;s other\u00a0professional certificate programs\u00a0for\u00a0learners to &#8220;develop the critical skills needed for today&#8217;s top jobs\u00a0through a series of in-demand courses.&#8221; Courses in the series include Retail Fundamentals and Omnichannel Strategy and Management, and are taught by\u00a0Santiago Gallino, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School, and\u00a0Antonio Morena-Garcia, Associate Professor of Operations at the Kellogg School of Management. &#8220;This is an example of the new types of learning experiences being offered online,&#8221; says Instructional Desinger and DartmouthX project lead Mike Goudzwaard, a partner in developing the Tuck certificate program. &#8220;Many early MOOCs (massive open online courses) were adapted from traditional residential\u00a0courses, but now MOOCs are being offered in variety of ways, and for many different purposes. This\u00a0allows learners to tailor their experiences to their own unique\u00a0goals.&#8221; Among the emerging trends in digital learning, Goudzwaard cites\u00a0courses addressing current events and timely topics, such as the University of Michigan&#8217;s\u00a0Teach Out Series\u00a0and Davidson College&#8217;s\u00a0pop-up courses, and courses and program aimed at developing specific\u00a0job skills, like Tuck&#8217;s retail management offerings. Some even provide advanced standing for students entering Masters degree programs through the\u00a0EdX Micromasters\u00a0model. The emergence of a Tuck certificate program follows on Dartmouth&#8217;s initial success in offering courses throguh edX. To date,\u00a0DartmouthX\u00a0has offered five online courses registering more than 91,000 learners. Of these, 15% (roughly twice the MOOC average) have sustained deep engagement with the course throughout its run. For Professor Gallino,\u00a0offering a certificate program\u00a0through edX is an opportunity to add to a limited body of\u00a0educational offerings on the topic of retail. Through the program, Gallino and colleague Morena-Garcia can provide high-quality instruction and resources to learners, while also offering a guided sequence from one course to the next. In a world of seemingly unlimited online course\u00a0offerings (more than 1,400 courses available at this moment from EdX alone), this guidance can be invaluable to learners interested in meeting\u00a0personal and professional goals. Tuck&#8217;s Retail and Omnichannel Management certificate program begins May 10. Other upcoming DartmouthX courses include Bipedalism: The Evolution of Upright Walking, Free Will, Attention, Top-Down Causation, and Consciousness in the Brain, John Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost, Materials in Gear, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.\u00a0\u00a0Learn more! &nbsp; This post first appeared on the website of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elligoudzwaard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}