Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage. "The future will likely see a continued de-emphasis on merely requiring that prospective employees hold college degrees."

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 203

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

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. There were no formalized links between the activities that they would do online and how they would be assessed in their roles offline.

Online Learning 126

Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 126

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The likes of Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, MasterClass, Lynda, and Pluralsight have together raised more than $1 billion and represent combined enterprise value of more than $5 billion. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. And this is just online.

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Udemy Coursera Company Training 89

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

How do we assess quality with all of the online education providers that are out there? Udemy - 80% male because focuses on tech space. Important to get feedback from students through surveys to assess quality of teaching and content. A: Udemy has a few professors who use their online courses as part of blended learning.

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Udemy Education MOOC Survey 49

Linways Technologies

JULY 5, 2019

It’s essentially deciding a set of skills, goals, or ‘outcomes’ that you want your students to achieve, and then assessing performance and knowledge along the course so that your students eventually achieve them. You could teach them about online courses like Coursera, Udemy, EdX, etc. With OBE, you give the learner a goal to achieve.

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Outcomes Guidelines Learning Udemy 73

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Observations are done using a tool called the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), which Pianta helped create in 2008. She'll look up YouTube videos and Udemy online courses to learn more about the areas she needs to work on. Sometimes she asked a question, but then answered it herself. And she'll turn to her fellow educators.

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Tools Udemy System Training 112

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

In addition, investment company Weld North Holdings acquired Performance Matters , a student assessment and data-analytics company that it will merge with K-12 ed-tech business Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development.

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Udemy Blackboard Company Facebook 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Comments from both established learning companies like McGraw-Hill , as well as more recent entrants like D2L and Udemy , reveal a strong push among edtech companies seeking to position themselves as "education's answer to Netflix." One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies.

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Udemy Education EdTech E-rate 60

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These systems also provide assessments, feedback and reporting tools, as well as automation and gamification, among many other features. Hence, more advanced students can access more complex learning resources and assessments to keep them motivated. . Let’s see what features it takes from each one: . LMS-related features.

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LMS Gamification Learning Dropout 345

Linways Technologies

JULY 9, 2020

Student demographics, technology integration, elements of curriculum, assessments, etc. It’s essentially deciding a set of skills, goals, or ‘outcomes’ that you want your students to achieve, and then assessing performance and knowledge along the course so that your students eventually achieve them. are all being redefined as we speak.

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How To Classroom Guidelines Learning 98

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Online video portal Udemy announced that it has raised $3 million Adaptive learning company Knewton announced a massive round of fundraising: $33 million. The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes?

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles. Some of these self-paced paced content providers for educators are: Udemy , Future Learn , edX , Coursera , iTunes U , and Youtube for teachers 9.

Education 47

Education MOOC Training Udemy 47

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

For what it’s worth, investment analyst firm CB Insights predicts that funding this year will not exceed that 2015 level , but one of the reasons I like to track the data myself is that everyone’s numbers and everyone’s assessment of the industry seem to be different, depending in part on “what counts” as ed-tech.

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Coursera Company Udemy Knewton 57

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year,” Education Week reports. Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.”

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Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Online education (admittedly, a very generic category): Investments include Udemy ($60,000,000), DigiSchool ($15,700,000), MasterClass ($15,000,000), UNICAF ($12,000,000), OpenClassroom ($6,740,000). I maintain a dataset of all education technology investments and all education technology investors. Everything’s a business opportunity.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

” “Word about the Vector Assessment of Readiness for College, or Vector A.R.C., Udemy has raised another $60 million , this time from the South African media group Naspers (which just last month invested $15 million in the homework help site Brainly). Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).

Education 45

Education Sakai Udemy Company 45