Edsurge
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. But in a new effort announced Thursday, called Coursera for Campus, the company will begin selling access to its complete library of courseware to any college to use, at around $400 per student.
Edsurge
JUNE 19, 2018
After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. But both Coursera and EdX, two of the largest providers, do release lists of their most popular courses.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5 It was never secondary for me, as it is for some faculty,” she says.
Edsurge
MAY 28, 2020
Before joining JFF, Lexi spent nearly a decade in public service at the federal level, including working on Capitol Hill for six years, and serving as a policy advisor to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Listen to the conversation below, or read highlights below.
Edsurge
JANUARY 23, 2018
You see platforms like edX, Coursera and Udacity working with employers who are focused on jobs skills and demands that are out there in the external market, and then going to their university or college partners and really designing to that.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
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. Source: EdSurge Fewer, but Bigger Seed Rounds. Deals of 2017. Duolingo: $25 million.
Edsurge
JULY 23, 2021
As prices rose at most post-secondary institutions over the last decades, tuition at these colleges fell. It wasn’t until providers of so-called MOOCs—massive open online courses—entered into online partnership with high-ranking colleges about a decade ago that serious discounting took off.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
91 
Let's personalize your content