The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality. million online courses in 2014-15. million students took about 4.5

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I already can tell that I’m going to learn a lot from the other members of my cohort. We meet face-to-face every few weeks and also engage together in a number of asynchronous learning activities. So far we’ve met once and have been assigned to some small groups. More reflections from me in the weeks and months to come!

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

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. Previous investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared also participated. This latest deal gives the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

When two Stanford University professors started Coursera in 2012, the focus was on building free online courses to bring teaching from elite colleges out to the world. But the pandemic has forced those selective colleges to embrace online learning like never before, and now all types of colleges are teaching online.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

In both K12 and higher education options for students to take whole courses, blended courses and—in some places—entire degree programs online are more prevalent than ever. Then they will mention taking one online course and hating it. Then they want to talk to me for 45 minutes about how bad online learning is.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

If online weren’t in the picture, on-campus enrollments, as reported in the most recent U.S. million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. At the current rate of 5.6

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

But SEEK Group , an Australian operator of online educational and employment services, has doubled down on massive open online courses. entry to [the online education] market when many were dismissing it,” says Simon Nelson, CEO of FutureLearn. FutureLearn’s new investor and co-owner, SEEK Group, operates in 18 countries.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

For example, De Anza Community College English professor Lauren Gordon, who had never used Zoom before 2020, said, “Everyone had a Zoom account,but I didn’t know that — I had never taught online.” Almost everyone admits the potential of online learning, used selectively and wisely. I’ve used the time to find my path.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

And the California State University system as a whole is one of the biggest remote educators in the country; more than 150,000 students took online courses there in the 2018-19 academic year. The coronavirus-induced shift of learning off campus was dramatic, but it accelerated a trend that has been growing over the past several years.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality. million online courses in 2014-15. million students took about 4.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The company last raised $30 million in a Series C round led by Naspers in 2016, and a $10 million Series B back in 2012. Investors from these previous rounds include Flybridge Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Alexis Ohanian and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Coursera , a global online learning platform that offers courses, certificates and degrees from more than 150 universities, announced Thursday it had secured $103 million in a Series E round to expand its international reach and prepare learners for the rising challenges of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

A report by Babson Study Research Group also shows that while distance education has steadily increased over the last 14 years, the number of students studying on campus decreased by 6.4 percent (totalling more than 1 million students) from 2012 to 2016. It’s also not the first online learning initiative introduced by Gov.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In the past, experts have made big projections for the global edtech market, with some groups estimating as much as $252 billion pouring into the market by 2020. The after-school learning centers (such as TAL Education Group ) where students study for exams and get extra tutoring, is where Chen focuses most of her coverage.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 24, 2016

Karl Mehta and his team are passionate about the global impact of mobile and online education. In 2012, the White House chose me to be a Presidential Innovation Fellow. SCL blends informal and formal learning in a social and collaborative setting to drive daily engagement and effective outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 19, 2012

GCFLearnFree - free online learning about lots of topics 7. Google Groups - connect, share, communicate, discuss - great for education 8. 5 Different Ways Technology Has Made Learning Easier 9. ScanURL - check any web address to make sure it''s safe 6.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Some have learning disabilities. Our team of 11 adults and 22 teen tutors have helped our students make remarkable gains, even with online learning replacing face-to-face instruction. With so much of teaching now online, teachers everywhere are wondering how we can best support struggling readers.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education. Negative perceptions and misconceptions about online teaching may also be to blame. Just a few years old, it’s still a “fledgling journal,” Archambault says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Headlines and news feeds frequently flash statistics about how millennials—more than any group before it—are more likely to switch jobs and careers several times in their lifetime. Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed? How Many Times Will People Change Jobs? The Myth of the Endlessly-Job-Hopping Millennial.

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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." The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. I think our views have evolved quite a bit, just as we've learned about online learning and what MOOCs are and what they aren't.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In addition to mitigating learning loss, it was seen by school leaders as a way to ease overcrowding by enabling different groups of students to attend at different times, he said, and to help with teacher burnout through more frequent breaks. Espinoza realized the district needed to better take advantage of the year-round calendar.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Students tackle lessons at their own pace as they work in groups to focus on concepts they find most challenging. “I Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meanwhile, their parents often struggled with their own language barriers and strains on the family that made it even more difficult to help their children thrive, particularly when it came to online learning. Students help each other build on skills by tackling reading assignments together in small groups.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 12, 2012

Join me Tuesday, June 12th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Jonathan Finkelstein, founder and executive producer of LearningTimes , the "global leader in creating innovative, interactive online learning solutions." psid=2012-06-12.1711.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

The seminal conference for the flipped learning movement, known formally as the Annual Flipped Learning Conference, is entering its ninth and final year as an in-person event, owing — somewhat fittingly — to dramatic shifts in online learning and communication, similar to the ones that birthed the movement in the first place.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Date : Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). psid=2012-09-26.0742.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Log in at [link].

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Lisa Marie Blaschke, Mr. Chris Kenyon, and Dr. Stewart Hase contacted a group of us due to our interest in heutagogy for the purpose of writing a chapter in an edited book. It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 7, 2016

The SIIA group will now represent about 230 member companies that provide educational software applications, digital content, online learning services and related technologies to the K-20 sector, according to Karen Billings, vice president and managing director of the network. But the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Capping each class allows Digital Plus courses to provide a tighter, more focused learning experience, Piloto says. Digital Plus courses—which are taught by MIT lecturers—will focus on project- and team-based exercises, along with a combination of videos, reading materials, and group work. says Piloto.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Allison Salisbury: Here at EdSurge we’ve watched and admired as groups from Student Voice to Young Invincibles grow in power and visibility, emboldening students to speak up and speak out. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. The interview, “ Why U.

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MOOC Trends Learning EdTech 68

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Take Milpitas Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay Area, which proposed a bond measure to pay for technology remodeling school spaces back in 2012. But for others, the pecuniary need may be more immediate—replacing a group of iPads that got broken, for example. It eventually passed —a total of $95 million.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012.

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Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? Guest speakers from trade groups, colleges and military branches visit the campus. “I Census data. The median age declined from 36.6

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

What “blended learning” means has certainly evolved since the Innosight Institute (now called the Clayton Christensen Institute ) introduced its definition in 2012, as “formal education program in which a student learns: at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

based education advocacy group. “It It became clear quite quickly that an investment in stuff, in boxes that plug in, is not really going to pay off with a lot of learning or classroom innovation unless there’s somebody to guide that process.”. In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

One day in June 2012, Hernandez told him to leave. I spoke with a group of students in the program, and I told them, ‘I’m not withdrawing, I’m just going to push through,’ ” Hernandez said. This year, foundations and policy groups put together $1.5 There were more setbacks. Robinson still couldn’t hold down a job.

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