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Edsurge
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. They have a different set of stakeholders that Coursera doesn’t have.”
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Plagiarism detection software originated at universities.
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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. We’ve seen the most interest in SaaS (software-as-a-service) models where the product is complementary to an existing platform.”. It’s now double that,” she added. That may be changing.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Coursera (online education): $210.1 Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). “The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District.
Hack Education
MAY 25, 2018
” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.” ” Also from the Google blog : “More tools for homeschoolers.”
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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