Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Now, MOOC providers like edX and Coursera are looking towards new (and sometimes paid) offerings, as well as so-called “MicroBachelors” degrees designed to break up undergraduate credential into discrete components. How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Historically that involves bringing some form physical identification, but increasingly companies and institutions are turning to face recognition, fingerprinting and voice biometrics. The Boston-based company passed its own test of sorts today: securing a $90 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Coursera Coursera aggressively tweaks its monetization model, which can lead to constant changes in how its courses work. It will be difficult to cover every scenario, so let’s focus on policies that apply to most courses, which also reflects the direction Coursera wants to move into it. These typically cost hundreds of dollars.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Some of the education sector’s most celebrated and best-funded startups—including Coursera, Minerva, and General Assembly—focus on providing alternatives to traditional postsecondary education, or challenging traditional approaches to higher education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Now, only four Global Freshman Academy classes remain active, and ASU is shifting its focus to Earned Admission, a program designed to help transfer students and employees at Starbucks and other partner companies qualify for admission to the university by passing online classes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. To date, the San Francisco-based company has raised about $140 million. That’s what happened to the likes of Coursera, NovoEd and Udacity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. Census Bureau 2016; U.S. And this is just online.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. After a dip in dealflow and venture capital to U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. edtech companies.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. They’ve developed a keen ability to spot other education companies with the potential to capitalize on giant pools of revenue created by tiny legislative changes. billion in 2010.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

There are a lot of companies limiting out a lot of talent. The company is one of many that’s dropping bachelor’s degree requirements for certain jobs. Merit America co-CEO Rebecca Taber Staehelin said these kinds of programs can help companies walk the walk after years of talk about diversity, equity and inclusion.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Originally launched by President Obama in March 2016, the Opportunity Project is intended to jumpstart the creation of new digital tools that use federal and local data to empower communities with information about critical resources, such as affordable housing, quality schools, and jobs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. A few companies are heading that way.

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Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 93

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. Or it will affect higher education in ways that we cannot even predict from the vantage of 2016. About the Author: Hossein Rahnama.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The pair then started the company in January 2013. At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. These online courses are easy to sign up for, yet few students actually stick through and finish them.

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Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 92

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21. verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. Then grant those who complete it preferential screening for job opportunities at your company. Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Google) biotech company, Calico. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. million people since 2003.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. ” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. “ Creepy Clowns Explained , Folklore-Style” by Sarah M.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. ” “The Indiana Department of Education is seeking $4 million in damages from the company that created last year’s problem-plagued ISTEP test. ” Poor poor misunderstood LMSes.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19 TakeLessons has acquired digital sheet music company Chromatik.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The company said that the Department of Education’s decision to bar it from federal financial aid forced it to do so. Employees claim they were not notified that the company would be closing. Reminder: Do not write for free – particularly for venture-backed companies like Edsurge. ITT has closed its doors.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. ” The company in question: edX. ” The company in question: edX. pic.twitter.com/k6CIPOlD3G — Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) September 18, 2016.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. ” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. The company has raised $420 million total. Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Prior to the department spending $6 million on iPads, Apple spent more than $5300 on meals and lodging for state Superintendent Mark Johnson and five other education officials to visit the company’s HQ. Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” SDG Academy has joined edX.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2020

In 2016, two master’s degrees were awarded for every five bachelor’s degrees , the Urban Institute calculated. Companies will continue to need highly educated workers, and it will be up to universities to provide them, said Bernard Mair, a senior vice president at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.

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Coursera Trends Data Report 143

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

” Despite thinking of themselves as liberal-learning, today’s tech companies re-inscribe much of this. But the total dollars fell sharply in 2016 – “only” $2.2 What sorts of companies and what sorts of products do venture capitalists like, for example? “Disrupt.” ” “Unbundle.”

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. Funding has shrunk.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

.” The article notes that “The number of states planning to use the new [SBAC and PARCC] tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016.” ” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics. Spoiler alert: no.).

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Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40