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Monday, August 26, 2013
Degreed wants to make online courses count - Iris Mansour, CNN Money
Launched in January 2013, Degreed is trying to address this problem by giving a score to university degrees and online courses alike. If you graduate from Harvard with an economics degree, for example, you'll earn 3,787 points. If you complete a programming course at Codecademy, that gives you 13 points. Points are tallied and stored on user profiles on Degreed. Users can get their transcript, identity, and degree verified for $12 each. "We normalize the data to help make the disparate world of education something that's easily understood by employers and others," says Blake, 29, who built Degreed with $900,000 in angel funding from five angels including Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Degreed is also currently part of the Kaplan EdTech accelerator program.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/15/degreed-online-courses/