Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012 , their pitch to investors often included jargon around “disrupting” the way education is accessed and consumed. And today, one of the largest MOOC providers, Coursera, announced it’s going one step further in that direction, with its first fully online bachelor’s degree. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

This afternoon, Coursera filed its S-1 paperwork , offering a first look at how the Mountain View, Calif.-based Coursera reported $293.5 Also driving that growth is Coursera for Campus, which the company launched in late 2019 to let colleges offer its library of online courses to their students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Most investors shy away from bets on companies that provide similar services for an obvious reason: Don’t have one portfolio company that can cannibalize another. Coursera boasts 40 million users and 3,200 courses, and generated an estimated revenue of $140 million in 2018, according to Forbes. audiences).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66 based education companies that raised a round of at least $250,000. Companies that primarily offer financial and loan services that serve education as one of many markets were also not included.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. In some cases he decides to eventually take the whole thing, and Coursera waives the usual fee for him to get a certificate if he finishes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” The refrain of thinking more like a business is an even stronger refrain at for-profit companies helping colleges set up new online programs.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. What kind of company culture sanctions that? What kind of leader does that?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." 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. And how are universities responding?

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Now, it just needs students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” NewView Capital also contributed $30 million in what’s known as an employee tender offer, a process in which NewView purchased company shares held by Course Hero employees. Another U.S. The valuation—$1.1

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Now, MOOC providers like edX and Coursera are looking towards new (and sometimes paid) offerings, as well as so-called “MicroBachelors” degrees designed to break up undergraduate credential into discrete components. How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). The MOOC Semester could fix that.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For the third time this year, an American education technology company is laying claim to the magical “unicorn” status. To date, company has raised $138 million. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. To date, the San Francisco-based company has raised about $140 million. That’s what happened to the likes of Coursera, NovoEd and Udacity.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In addition to shopping for applications, he hopes to build partnerships with companies that can support him and his school throughout the tech implementation process. She is following some of the tutoring companies at ISTE, noting that many are seeking partnerships with United States companies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The state’s Office of Higher Education sent a letter to Udacity officials last month notifying the company that Minnesota law requires schools offering degrees to “register with our office prior to offering distance education programs to residents of Minnesota.” Flashback to 2012. Poulin suspects they’re fighting it on principle.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 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 The bull is back—or is it?

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

In some ways, the San Francisco-based company is arguing that high-quality education can be done cheaper thanks to technology in ways that have been elusive in the past. Minerva is a for-profit company that has raised more than $119 million since its founding in 2012, and it provides online-education services and curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. At least 75 such partnerships exist between colleges and three of the country’s top boot camp provider companies: edX, ThriveDX and Fullstack Academy.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. billion—does not account for companies whose primary product and service focus on student loan refinancing. edtech companies.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The cumulative number of MOOCs didn’t break 100 until the end of 2012. That course — along with most of the courses on the most-popular lists — comes from Coursera. In 2013, nearly half of all MOOCs came from Coursera, and in 2014 the company still offered about a third of MOOCS on the market.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ” he asks. Is this really a trend?

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. Free online courses might make headlines, but tuition-based professional degrees in high-demand fields such as health care are where online courses, and the companies that help build them, are gaining a foothold. It is there that 2U and others have found their sweet spot.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2021

edX had fallen behind rivals like Coursera, a similar platform founded by Stanford University professors, in fundraising and reach, though it still boasts 35 million users and more than 3,000 courses. As an investment, the $30 million each that Harvard and MIT contributed in 2012 did pay off. What happens now is a bit complicated.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

Earlier this year, for instance, Coursera announced six new degrees , including the first-ever MOOC-based Bachelors. Having been involved with MOOCs since the beginning, this recent wave of announcements reminds me of 2012, the year when MOOCs rose to prominence. Quite the opposite.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. The pair then started the company in January 2013. The platform also offers collaborative tools so teams of students can work together on projects. NovoEd raised $4.8

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Even before the pandemic hit, higher education was beginning to realize how online formats could amplify the reach of individual courses and instructors, alleviating—or undermining—the need for every campus to host its own version of similar material.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. Coursera and edX are now approaching 20 million students on their platforms. We don’t need millions of dollars of research on why people don’t complete MOOCs.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

“Over the next few years, textbooks should be obsolete” – Arne Duncan, 2012. It’s just some monsters I’ve seen as I’ve traveled through the nightmarish landscape of education technology. “Books will soon be obsolete in schools” – Thomas Edison, 1913. ” – Thomas Friedman, 2013.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

The assumption—especially in the marketing messages from major providers like Coursera and edX—is that the winners of traditional higher education will also end up the winners in the world of online courses. In fact, three of the 10 most popular courses on Coursera aren’t produced by a college or university at all, but by a company.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller has ridden the MOOC craze as the company’s CEO and later president. Yesterday, Koller announced she’s leaving the company to join Calico , a Google-funded research and development company that focuses on slowing aging and counteracting age‑related diseases.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The company said that the Department of Education’s decision to bar it from federal financial aid forced it to do so. Employees claim they were not notified that the company would be closing. Reminder: Do not write for free – particularly for venture-backed companies like Edsurge. ITT has closed its doors.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

However, as more online learning companies raise their Series D funding rounds , and players from Duolingo to Coursera try to figure out sustainable business models, we’ve reached a juncture where we need to think about the issues of equity that come with chasing paying customers. Content-Driven vs. Connection-Driven.

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