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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. A math professor makes the case for using class time for active learning. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. By Jeffrey R.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is down 50.8 percent, the company went public via SPAC in June 2021 at $10/share.

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MissionU Says It Can Replace Traditional College With a One-Year Program

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They include Facebook, Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Warby Parker, Casper, Birchbox, Plated, 2U, and Chegg. “In These days students can always take Shakespeare or other courses later, once they’re settled in their careers, thanks to free MOOCs, he says. In designing our curriculum, we actually start with employers first,” says Braun.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. And so what we’ll do is kind of track what type of transactions are happening on, say, Chegg, Amazon, and online away from the bookstore. So I think you’re focused on the right place.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Startups that are attempting to build the following tools are at least 10 years too late to the party, especially if they’re attempting to tackle the US market. Yet another student book exchange. How are you better than. Yet another LMS. Facebook is.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."