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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. They have a different set of stakeholders that Coursera doesn’t have.”

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How Innovations in Voice Technology Are Reshaping Education

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Sanchez leads the Mobile Experiences and Emerging Technology team at Coursera, the online learning platform where students anywhere can take courses, master a career skill, get professional certificates, and earn degrees from 200 top universities and companies, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Google and IBM.

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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

Educational Technology Guy

Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. But the truth is, not all students, educators, and institutions are ready for digitalization.

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What If Free Online Courses Weren’t Inside 'Walled Gardens'?

Edsurge

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors.

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Much Ado About MOOCs: Where Are We in the Evolution of Online Courses?

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The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.

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As the world goes virtual, big education technology players tighten their grip

The Hechinger Report

Of the 10 most-used K-12 ed-tech tools tracked by management network LearnPlatform since the start of the pandemic, eight are from Google. But half of that went to just six companies, including the celebrity tutorial provider MasterClass, the online learning platform Udemy and the school and college review site Niche.

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edX Staked Its Reputation on Its Nonprofit Status. What Will It Mean To Be Part of For-Profit 2U?

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A dean of digital learning at MIT, Krishna Rajagopal, resigned in protest , telling colleagues in an email that he had “serious continuing reservations” about the proposed direction. Universities that paid into Coursera were paying fees to a vendor. Our brand is more akin to Alphabet than it is to Google.

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