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.”
Edsurge
JULY 17, 2020
On Wednesday, CampusLogic, a provider of financial aid software to colleges and universities, raised $120 million. 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. Coursera for Campus launched last October.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. The company, which was started by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and is now one of the most well-funded in the education industry , has always been highly picky about which colleges it works with to develop courses.
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.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Plagiarism detection software originated at universities. And online test proctoring software has roots at universities as well. Michael Chasen, one of the co-founders of Blackboard and its CEO from 1999 to 2012. Coursera founder Daphne Koller.
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. Prices range from $12 for an online, on-demand class about quality improvement to $9,000 for an online, synchronous course teaching software engineering.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 14, 2016
That might work for software, he says, but should not be applied to education. “If 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. 61 to 136A.71), 61 to 136A.71),
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