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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. Coursera founder Daphne Koller. we'd see as the failure of Coursera. And guess who else is back?

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million people since 2003.” 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. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. Google) biotech company, Calico.

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This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. Here’s Coursera arguing “Why Everyone Should Learn Sales.” ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”