Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY) is down 52.4 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. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. The most positive jumping off moment was when I realized I'd made $30,000 in extra income in 2012 or something like that.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Udemy (skills training): $173 million. In 2012, Wired Magazine proclaimed that Udacity “ could change higher learning forever.” ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Coursera (online education): $210.1

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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. Udemy (skills training) – $173 million.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012. Udemy, which offers a marketplace for online classes, has raised $173 million total.

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