Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Of the top providers, Coursera, the Wall Street-financed company that grew out of the Stanford breakthrough, is the champion with 37 million learners, followed by edX, an MIT-Harvard joint venture, with 18 million. MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

That’s what happened to the likes of Coursera, NovoEd and Udacity. Degreed exists in a competitive industry, with former massive open online course providers that once focused on universities expanding into corporate learning. Some economists expect a recession in the near future, though not one as drastic as the Great Recession.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

EverFi $190 million $251 million Hero K12 $150 million $150 million Grammarly $110 million $110 million Coursera $64 million $210 million AltSchool $40 million $173 million MasterClass $35 million $56.4 There’s a theory that if you establish a strong brand on one area, you can acquire others to create complementary services.”. Round Size.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Indeed, while colleges and universities continue to struggle financially, the dark days of 2008 seem like a distant memory for most of them. One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX.

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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. million jobs lost in the 2008 recession, 5.6 This dichotomy is not lost on investors. And this is just online.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

When the economy tanked in 2008 and millions of laid-off workers began competing for scarce jobs, employers got pickier about who they hired and increasingly added four-year degree requirements to some “middle-skills” jobs that had frequently been filled by workers without degrees.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX. A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Surely a lot has changed!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

“The creation of EdX was positioned as a direct response to those dirty, grubby capitalists from Stanford who were going to privatize higher education with Coursera,” he wrote, referring to the venture-backed competitor that went public this year. Universities that paid into Coursera were paying fees to a vendor. It was a public good.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.” ” More via Techcrunch.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

Well, for me EDUPUNK (all caps, like EDUCAUSE) was one of those outlandish metaphors I threw out there to try and explain the state of educational technology back in 2008. I am not a fan of the MOOC as they''re sold by Coursera, Udacity, and the like. And it quickly resonated with a lot of people.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

Founded in 2008 – ostensibly when CEO Travis Kalanick was unable to hail a cab while in Paris – the company has become synonymous with the so-called “sharing” or “freelance” economy, Silicon Valley’s latest rebranding of technologically-enhanced economic precarity and job insecurity.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: February 28, 2017 Interview: Emily Glassberg Sands, Data Science Manager at Coursera | insideBIGDATA → Her work at Coursera focuses on supporting data-driven decisions re: product development, including data modeling, data standardization, and reporting. Should it be revisited?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Founded by two educators in 2008, Edmodo experienced a number of leadership changes this decade. Aaron Swartz, 2008. Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Coursera has raised over $310 million.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Kassner created Proctor U in 2008 with colleague Jarrod Morgan while serving as president of Andrew Jackson University (now known as New Charter University), and left the company in 2016.” Coursera co-founder “ Andrew Ng officially launches his $175M AI Fund,” says Techcrunch. It isn’t really a fund per se.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Coursera also brought on a new CEO : Jeff Maggioncalda, whose previous job was in the financial planning industry.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” Also via Class Central : “ Coursera Lets Instructors A/B Test Their Courses, Experiments With Automated Coaching.” Or this one: “A Growth Mindset Can Reduce the Gender Gap in STEM,” claims Coursera’s blog. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Employment and Debt of 2008 College Graduates.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? .” MOOCs are not particularly "open." The College Affordability Crisis.

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