Bryan Alexander
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. ” Because that’s where things seem to be headed in 2015.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
billion, this year’s funding total is the second-highest tally, following 2015 (which saw $1.4 MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. billion across 126 deals.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. ” “ How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.”
Hack Education
OCTOBER 14, 2016
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Via Buzzfeed : “ Facebook Recorded An £11 Million UK Tax Rebate In 2015, Accounts Show.” Education in the Courts. Or something.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.
Hack Education
JUNE 16, 2017
.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.”
Hack Education
MARCH 3, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. Luster lost to Chromebooks, apparently. The funding actually occurred in November 2015 but was not disclosed until required by law.
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