Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

An Unusual Backstory When MIT and Harvard each invested $30 million to start edX back in 2012, it was surprising news. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.” While MIT and Harvard set up edX as a nonprofit, two Stanford professors started a venture-backed for-profit called Coursera.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

Two of the most well-known e-learning platforms – edX and Coursera – were both launched back in 2012 and were gaining new students every year. Before Covid Online education wasn’t introduced during the pandemic. In fact, online learning classes have been a thing for a while now.

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EmergingEdTech

MAY 26, 2015

Teachers can Earn a Verified Certificate for Convenient, Affordable PD Back in 2012, I took a Coursera course in Operations Management, to test the waters of the new world of MOOCs. I shared my. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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. We have more than 11,000 courses from 900 universities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn. 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

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 24, 2017

These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). At one point Coursera boasted about a average forum response time of 22 minutes; that’s no longer the case. Since the course first launched in 2012, many students have finished ModPo multiple times.

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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

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.” One example is the University of California at Davis Extension, which offers five “Specializations” through Coursera.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here is a list of the top five MOOC providers by registered users: Coursera: 30 million users. Coursera saw paying users rise by 70 percent this year. A few of the longer courses originally launched in 2012 and 2013 have also been split up into multiple courses and re-launched under a credential. edX: 14 million users.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Those elite eight—Guild Education, BetterUp, Coursera, Andela, Degreed, MindTickle, EdCast and A Cloud Guru—accounted for 39 percent of edtech investing in 2019. These four went to Andela, BetterUp, Coursera and Guild Education—companies that provide workforce training and development services. million in fall 2018 from 2.64

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When Coursera, Udacity, and edX started up within four months of one another, in 2012, The New York Times declared it the year of the MOOC. A report released this week draws on a survey of Coursera students to look at their motivations and what kinds of educational and career results they are seeing.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Michael Chasen, one of the co-founders of Blackboard and its CEO from 1999 to 2012. Coursera founder Daphne Koller. we'd see as the failure of Coursera. The former would pay $200 a course; the latter $250. And guess who else is back?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Charles Severance was one of the first professors at the University of Michigan to give the massive open online courses (MOOC) platform Coursera a try. So in 2012, the professor decided to take a common practice from his in-person courses, and invite MOOC students to global, online office hours.

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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. So what do the top courses on MOOC platforms like edX and Coursera tell us about where teaching is heading?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Flashback to 2012. In the early days of MOOCs, the state’s Office of Higher Education made headlines for asking Coursera and other providers of free courses to go through the registration process. This is not the first time Minnesota has asked upstart online providers to register their offerings. 61 to 136A.71), 61 to 136A.71),

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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. Community colleges are staking a claim in the territory of online course marketplaces.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The company has been turning a profit since 2012, according to Grauer. education technology companies have propelled Coursera , Duolingo and Guild Education to the unicorn stable. But, he cautions, “let’s not rest on our laurels.” The Redwood City, Calif. A series of large fundraising deals in a record-setting 2019 for U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company. Coursera, which also offers access to online higher-ed courses, secured $103 million in April. To date, company has raised $138 million. The latest funding round gives Duolingo a valuation of $1.5

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

Founded in 2012, Degreed offers over 1,500 certificates and credentials, aimed primarily at companies looking to develop and upskill their employees. That’s what happened to the likes of Coursera, NovoEd and Udacity. This latest cash infusion comes on the heels of Degreed’s first Series C round in March 2018, which totaled $42 million.

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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

JUNE 29, 2017

When Chen started her work back in 2012, she says people were obsessed with online learning models like Coursera. I am looking at three trends: assessments that can tell a student's ability and allow you to personalize programs, coding hardware and software, and new types of schools like ALT Schools,” says Chen.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

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. One example is the iMBA program , a low-cost online business program offered by the University of Illinois, run in partnership with Coursera.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The New York Times later declared 2012 as the ‘year of the MOOC,’ and columnists said the virtual courses would bring a revolution. MOOCs started in around 2011 when a few Stanford professors put their courses online and made them available to anyone who wanted to take them. The crowds who showed up were, well, massive.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. education and workforce technology companies: Six companies went public at valuations above $1 billion: PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

However, since 2012—when MOOCs gained widespread recognition —instructional designers have made significant strides in designing scalable learning experiences that people successfully finish. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. Today, 2U reports completion rates of up to 88 percent for their online degree programs.

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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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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. .” Here DeMillo carries on his account of the MOOC story which he launched in chapter 1. Kindle location 1093).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Of all the learners that ever registered on a MOOC platform, one third did so in 2020 , making 2020 MOOCs’ most consequential year since 2012, which has been dubbed “ Year of the MOOC ”. In April 2020, MOOC providers Coursera, edX and FutureLearn attracted as many new users in a single month as they did in the entirety of 2019.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Carolan, who previously co-founded and managed the New Schools Seed Fund in 2012, noted that the average seed round used to be around $700,000. It’s now double that,” she added. Discounting the funding that startups get from joining accelerator programs, the average seed round in for U.S. edtech startups hit almost $1.7 Deals of 2017.

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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. Coursera (online education) –- $64 million.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

The rise and fall of Make School After starting in 2012 and pivoting from gaming to education in 2014, Make School operated for years as an unlicensed educational institution. In order to complete her homework assignments, she spent hours each night re-teaching herself the material, with help from Coursera and YouTube tutorials.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

DeMillo dubs this the Magic Year of 2012, when his titular revolution began. We see Coursera when it was just “DKandme” This chapter takes us through the critical work of selected people, including Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Charles Vest, Anant Agarwal, and John Hennessy.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. Other top-tier universities have created online versions of their professional-degree programs, which is something Yale noticed when taking stock of its online presence in 2012. In 2007 it became one of the first elite institutions to post lecture videos online at no charge.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

He recommended an Indiana framework project he helped build, along with Stanford’s NovoEd platform , which might be better than Coursera in terms of creating an ecology of learning. Coda three: Vanessa Vaile pointed us to a 2012 Inside Higher Ed article on Bonk and MOOCs. Curt responded by seeing infrastructure as complex.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This wave of activity and spending by MOOC providers and universities gave me a feeling of deja vu: it reminded me of the 2012 MOOC hype. Coursera and FutureLearn both raised significant capital this year, coincidentally from the same investor. Coursera achieved the coveted unicorn status after a Series E funding round of $103M.

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