Edsurge
APRIL 3, 2020
MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera. However, in economic crises, potential students’ decision-making often becomes more value- and ROI-oriented.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. million in 2019 to 18.6
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Hack Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
This spyware extracts an incredible amount of information from students, including their biometric data, audio, and video, and then runs it through proprietary algorithms designed to identify suspicious behavior that might signal cheating. We're quite literally asking students to install spyware on their machines. But guess who's back?
Hack Education
MAY 6, 2020
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," as Rahm Emanuel, then President Obama's chief of staff, said in 2009 as the world teetered on the brink of recession. Video, as they say, killed the radio star. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. In the late 1950s, about 70% of US households owned a television.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. 2009 – the phones in their pockets. The quotation is from 2012. But the claim starts to fall apart under scrutiny. It is not.
Hack Education
MAY 18, 2018
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). OpenClassrooms , a French MOOC provider according to Techcrunch, has raised $60 million from Bpifrance, General Atlantic, Alven Capital, and Citizen Capital. Via The Blade : “School that took ECOT students wants poor scores ignored.” It has raised $69.7
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