mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Andrew Ng, Stanford University computer science professor, is the co-founder of Coursera, a for-profit company that partners with colleges and universities to provide free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). It''s hard to believe that the company only started up in April! Here are the 210 offerings for 2013.

Coursera 54

Coursera MOOC Learning Company 54

Wired Campus

OCTOBER 19, 2015

It was 2011, and fewer than ten MOOCs existed worldwide. It has been four years since then, and according to a new report, the cumulative number of MOOCs has reached nearly 4,000. Compiled earlier this month by Dhawal Shah, founder of the MOOC aggregator Class Central, the report summarizes data on MOOCs from the past four years.

MOOC 28

MOOC Coursera Course Report 28

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MOOCs Recent virtual upstarts, MOOCs—massive open online courses—catapulted onto the global learning stage when Stanford University computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in 2011 came upon the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

Online Learning 135

Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 135

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

For instance, a lead developer of the Post-It note at industrial giant 3M has said on record that the company had a terrible experience using a trendy innovation method known as Six Sigma , arguing that it almost “killed innovation” at the company. Eshleman pointed to a controversy a few years ago at Amherst College.

MOOC 136

MOOC Survey Industry Company 136

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 In fact, the number of deals has been on a steady downward slope since 2013. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. edtech companies. The answers depend on who you ask.

EdTech 103

EdTech Pearson Company Knewton 103

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

More than half of the accelerator’s current education companies offer ISAs to attract students to their services. The accelerator provides companies with $150,000 in seed funding for 7 percent of the company. The company has disbursed money to about 15 students so far and has funds for about 30 more students.

Education 126

Education Company MOOC Course 126

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. They were incredibly hardworking people, but the ones creating the most significant social impact in the world were also often too busy to finish a MOOC. A few companies are heading that way. billion kilometers, and gave each other 1.3

Online Learning 126

Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 126

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

This unusual school started in Paris in 2013 -- it’s the passion project of French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel, who donated $100-million to the effort. Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. Does your model at 42 work because there are so many MOOCs and other free courses online now?

MOOC 132

MOOC Gamification Company System 132

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Join me Thursday, February 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with return guest Roger Schank to talk about his book Teaching Minds : How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools , why MOOCs won''t save schools or the world, and why everything you think you know about education is wrong. psid=2013-02-28.1721.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

Blackboard 65

Blackboard MOOC Company System 65

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

Software 141

Software ProctorU Company Data 141

The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It was more of a refusal of Blockbuster to move forward than it was a willingness for a different company to do something different, and more importantly, better. They were the most well known, had stores all over the world, and a history of success. I am not a fan of the “school is broken” narrative.

Khan Academy 53

Khan Academy MOOC Company Education 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. If schools are struggling right now, education technology companies — and technology companies in general — are not. Tech companies are dominating the stock market. Let me fix that sentence.

Robotics 83

Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. Free online courses might make headlines, but tuition-based professional degrees in high-demand fields such as health care are where online courses, and the companies that help build them, are gaining a foothold.

Coursera 28

Coursera MOOC Course Company 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

education technology companies raised $1.45 And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. For edtech companies able to show consistent growth and revenue, that should be welcome news. Last year, U.S. billion raised by U.S.

EdTech 155

EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 155

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The pair then started the company in January 2013. At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. NovoEd raised $4.8 million in a Series A round in 2014, and has raised $6.3 million overall.

Online Learning 103

Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 103

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

.” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. The quotation is from 2012. Fantasy. .”

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” – Thomas Friedman, 2013.

Technology 0

Technology Education Robotics System 0

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

In 2013, he was heralded as “ the boy genius of Ulan Bator” by the New York Times. Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia.

EdTech 60

EdTech Company Secondary Coursera 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

McDonnell says that will go forward despite changes at the company—last week Strayer announced plans to merge with Capella Education Co., Some nonprofit colleges that produce MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, have experimented with different production methods. The university considers its studio a success and plans to expand it.

Course 105

Course Khan Academy MOOC Trends 105

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This is another throwback post, this time from February 5, 2013. I’m in good company, as Keith Devlin is the first on that list and Veritasium’s Derek Muller is in there as well. In 2013 it was all about Khan Academy; in 2017, MOOCs; today the new hotness is AI. What will it be next?

Khan Academy 52

Khan Academy Flipped Classroom Video Exercises 52

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Beyond the MOOC. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013. Indie Ed-Tech.

Technology 58

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Hmm. .” Via The Washington Post : “Former U-Va.

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

And in 2013, the New York State attorney general filed suit against the business, which had shut its doors two years earlier, accusing it of engaging in illegal, deceptive practices. Just call your credit card company and ask for an extension on your line of credit, instructors purportedly told students. What are MOOCs, for example?

Conference 63

Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient. She’s an investor in a company that targets that group.)

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.”

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” ” More on MOOC (and related) research in the research section below. ” Try learning styles, maybe.

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Each month, I calculate all the venture capital investment that’s gone into education technology, noting who’s invested, the type of company, and so on. Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs.

Trends 40

Trends MOOC Khan Academy Maker Movement 40

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” EdWeek’s Market Brief on “Implications for K–12 Companies in Trump’s Big Proposed Cuts to Ed. ” Last year , the Ugandan government decreed that company’s schools be shut down because they failed to meet education and sanitation requirements; Kenyan courts have also ordered the schools to close.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

But the New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman certainly saw otherwise, as was clear in his statement : In 2013, my office sued Donald Trump for swindling thousands of innocent Americans out of millions of dollars through a scheme known as Trump University. The President-Elect refused to accept any wrongdoing.

Education 40

Education Technology Company Industry 40

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“ Apollo Education Group , the parent company of the University of Phoenix and Western International University , announced Thursday that it would eliminate the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in students’ enrollment agreements,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Gee, good thing no one else in ed-tech is in the business of selling these sorts of connections between companies and politicians and schools! ” Ugh.

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Trump’s ideas seem to be a reprise of a proposal the NRA put forward back in 2013. ” Oh sure sure, this isn’t exactly education technology news, except for the part where Khosla invests in education technology companies and his wife founded the open education organization CK–12. “Open.”

Education 46

Education Company Data Elsevier 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via Education Week : “The founder and former CEO of an online public school that educates thousands of Pennsylvania students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal tax fraud, acknowledging he siphoned more than $8 million from The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School through for-profit and nonprofit companies he controlled.”

Education 40

Education Khan Academy MOOC Company 40