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Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall

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Coursera, which provides online courses to higher-ed institutions, businesses and government agencies, has raised $130 million in a Series F round led by NEA. Dubbed “ Coursera for Campus ,” this offering includes about 4,000 courses created by 150 colleges and universities. (A But its time on the throne proved to be short-lived.

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Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable

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I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. billion, to be exact—comes courtesy of a $10 million Series B round from NewView Capital , whose founder and managing partner, Ravi Viswanathan, will join Course Hero’s board of directors. But its CEO winces when he hears the word.

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Understanding Teacher Engagement in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., I’ll be opening registration for cohort 2 of my Blended Learning Coaching Course in January! To request a quote for your coaching team, fill out this form.

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Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses

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MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. Make students put skin in the game.

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Comparing the 2016 and 2012 FLVC Student Textbook Survey Results

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However, I’ve also read people saying that the results are essentially unchanged from the 2012 survey to the 2016 survey. An analysis of these data demonstrate that there are in fact some statistically significant differences in student responses from 2012 to 2016. “Drop a course” was unchanged from 2012 to 2016.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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With such broad interpretations of AI, Andrew Ng wants to simply things for the average person in a new course called AI for Everyone. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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Acadeum Raises $7 Million to Help Colleges Share Courses and Save Money

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And now, the company that helps groups of colleges—a “consortium” in Acadeum parlance—share online courses has raised a new round of funding to support its marketing efforts and woo more schools to its digital course-sharing consortia. Courses on the Acadeum platform average 70 percent less expensive than local on-campus courses.

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