Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2013, the American Council on Education recommended colleges accept for credit 12 specific MOOCs offered by Coursera and Udacity. Leah Belsky, senior vice president for enterprise at Coursera, also believes credit-eligible MOOCs have promise.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings. Today, there is ample evidence of demand for new types of educational credentials—especially since the start of the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019. Coursera, the biggest microcredential provider, lets students take month-long courses to develop skills for higher-paying jobs. Public attitudes are also changing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

That test is no longer around, but he says that experience inspired him to launch Examity in 2013. Online education companies, including Coursera and Duolingo, also use Examity to verify the identities of students who earn certificates. It claims a smaller, but growing footprint among employers at corporations, including Amazon.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Of the top providers, Coursera, the Wall Street-financed company that grew out of the Stanford breakthrough, is the champion with 37 million learners, followed by edX, an MIT-Harvard joint venture, with 18 million. Launched in 2013, XuetangX, the Chinese platform in third place, claims 18 million.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates. In 2013, more than 90% of MOOC learners didn’t finish their courses, and many of them didn’t even start the courses for which they registered.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates. In 2013, more than 90% of MOOC learners didn't finish their courses, and many of them didn't even start the courses for which they registered.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

EverFi $190 million $251 million Hero K12 $150 million $150 million Grammarly $110 million $110 million Coursera $64 million $210 million AltSchool $40 million $173 million MasterClass $35 million $56.4 There’s a theory that if you establish a strong brand on one area, you can acquire others to create complementary services.”. Round Size.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But by the end of 2013, that number had grown to over 800. That course — along with most of the courses on the most-popular lists — comes from Coursera. In 2013, nearly half of all MOOCs came from Coursera, and in 2014 the company still offered about a third of MOOCS on the market. After that, Canvas.net gets 7 percent.

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Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction. Would it work?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In fact, the number of deals has been on a steady downward slope since 2013. From a high of 133 angel- and seed-stage deals in 2013, totaling $93.5 billion, this year’s funding total is the second-highest tally, following 2015 (which saw $1.4 billion invested), since EdSurge began tracking U.S. edtech investments in 2011.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. billion kudos on the platform.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. .” Here DeMillo carries on his account of the MOOC story which he launched in chapter 1. Kindle location 1093).

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

employers who provide traditional tuition assistance to their employees has dropped from 61 percent in 2013 to 53 percent in 2017 , according to the Society for Human Resource Management. The share of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Merit America provided a stipend that helped him afford a bus pass to attend job counseling sessions while he completed a 13-week Coursera program to earn a Google IT certification. When Gallup asked Americans in 2019 about the value of college degrees, just 51 percent answered “very important,” down from 70 percent in 2013.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

We see Coursera when it was just “DKandme” This chapter takes us through the critical work of selected people, including Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Charles Vest, Anant Agarwal, and John Hennessy. DeMillo dubs this the Magic Year of 2012, when his titular revolution began.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. In 2007 it became one of the first elite institutions to post lecture videos online at no charge. In 2011 it began offering online summer courses to small groups of undergraduates for credit.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

The largest number of for-profit campuses was 1,451, in 2013. According to the US Education Department IPEDS surveys, the largest number of public and non-profit private campuses was 3,393, in 2001. Between 2000 and 2017 (the most recent year available), the number of public and private non-profit campuses shrank by about 40.

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Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction.

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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. These online courses are easy to sign up for, yet few students actually stick through and finish them.

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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.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

increase in student enrolment in online courses from fall 2013 to fall 2014. There are tons of free courses on sites like Coursera and edX , which bring knowledge closer to a wider audience. In April 2015, the American Association of Community Colleges released the results of a survey , which showed a 4.7%

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

MOOCs as Digital Content Although the popular press sounded the death knell for MOOCs beginning in 2013, thousands of students still enroll in a MOOC on a daily basis. As we move towards 2019, it’s time to get clearer about this difference and start asking smarter questions about what MOOCs can and should be expected to accomplish.

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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.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. This is a great opportunity to share your work or ideas! We have an absolutely terrific lineup of keynote speakers.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

“The Vastmanland court ruled Tuesday the Malardalen University ’s two-year program ‘Analytical Finance’ that Connie Askenback attended from 2011 to 2013 ‘had no practical value.’” ’” More on court cases in the sports and testing sections below. Edsurge weighs in but doesn’t say much.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” Via WBEZ : “Study: 2013 Chicago School Closings Failed To Help Students.” Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” What’s Going On?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

” The DQC reports that 49 states and the District of Columbia have introduced some 410 bills addressing student data privacy since 2013, with 73 of these bills actually becoming law. According to the Data Quality Campaign , “Student data privacy was a priority issue in state legislatures in 2016.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2013, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot launched its MakerBot Academy with a goal “to put a MakerBot Desktop 3D Printer in every school in America.” Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” You can learn anything online, Siegler argued.

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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.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. The 2013 “Superintendent of the Year” Mark Edwards will join Discovery Education. .” There’s an infographic (but perhaps no cognitive scientist on staff, eh). ” Try learning styles, maybe.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?). Via Class Central : “ FutureLearn ’s New Pricing Model Limits Access to Course Content After the Course Ends.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Trump’s ideas seem to be a reprise of a proposal the NRA put forward back in 2013. Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. Via NPR : “Trump Backs Arming Teachers During Emotional White House Listening Session.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Remember Richard McKenzie?

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” ” That’s Rohit Agarwal, founder of TenMarks, a math startup that Amazon acquired in 2013. ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Grading platform Kiddom has raised $6.5

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. ” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Frank Brogan, the chancellor of the Pennsylvania State University System from 2013 until retiring this year, has joined the Department of Education in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development – likely ahead of a nomination to a separate position.” More via Politico.

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