2012 Company Digital Learning MOOC 
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APRIL 13, 2023
The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U. That’s a private company that helps colleges start online degree or certificate programs, usually in exchange for a cut of tuition revenue.
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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. This funding is “vindication for Open University betting on a MOOC platform, for investing in a non-U.S. audiences).
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FEBRUARY 26, 2019
A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee. And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. And how are universities responding?
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MAY 13, 2021
It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Nearly 10 years later, Coursera has in fact become a unicorn, valued at well over the billion-dollar mark, and in March it started trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central.
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MARCH 5, 2021
That comes from over 77 million registered learners, along with more than 2,000 businesses (including 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies) and 100 government agencies that paid for its enterprise offerings. That attracted many students, and led him and a Stanford colleague, Daphne Koller, to start the company. percent).
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JULY 17, 2020
education technology company in 2020. To close out the week, another higher-education company secured a nine-figure fundraise. Previous investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared also participated. based company an estimated $2.5 This latest deal gives the Mountain View, Calif.-based
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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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