Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Those elite eight—Guild Education, BetterUp, Coursera, Andela, Degreed, MindTickle, EdCast and A Cloud Guru—accounted for 39 percent of edtech investing in 2019. These four went to Andela, BetterUp, Coursera and Guild Education—companies that provide workforce training and development services.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. At Coursera, we’ve seen registered users in China climb by more than 500 percent between 2013 and 2016, crossing the one million mark in 2015. At Coursera, our relationships have been more targeted.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

It was also the last major provider to do away free certificates and held out till the end of 2015. Coursera Coursera aggressively tweaks its monetization model, which can lead to constant changes in how its courses work. Last year, Coursera introduced subscriptions for their specializations.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). ⚡ Class Central (@classcentral) December 8, 2015. At one point Coursera boasted about a average forum response time of 22 minutes; that’s no longer the case.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

And Coursera, the venture-backed startup that also works with colleges to develop online courses, says it has added 50 new “specializations” (series of courses that add up to a noncredit certificate) in the past year. One example is the University of California at Davis Extension, which offers five “Specializations” through Coursera.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Examples of these online course series, which are open to enrollment by any applicant, include Coursera Specializations which appeared in early 2014, and the MicroMasters , first offered in Supply Chain Management by MITx in 2015 via the edX online platform. million enrollments in its MOOCs since April 2015.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

When it launched in 2015, the Global Freshman Academy was marketed as a low-cost way for students to complete their first year of college by taking open online classes backed by the ASU brand. In 2013, the American Council on Education recommended colleges accept for credit 12 specific MOOCs offered by Coursera and Udacity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014. Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Launched in June 2015, the Valencia, Calif.-based And the business is growing: Babson Survey Research Group’s 2015 Survey of Online Learning shows the number of higher education students taking at least one distance education course in 2015 grew by 3.9 percent compared to the previous year. Launched in Valencia, Calif.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

based education technology company, second only to Bertelsmann’s $230 million investment in HotChalk in 2015. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Coursera CEO Rick Levin. Other investors including Main Street Advisors and Advance Publications made up the rest. This marks one of the biggest fundraises for a U.S.-based

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Founded in 2015, Riipen’s platform has mostly businesses and schools based in Canada. Coursera raised $103 million this year and became a unicorn, and Lambda School raised $30 million. The Canadian company has 48 full-time employees, two-thirds of whom work in marketing, sales and customer success. office in 2020.

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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. The data for 2015 is better, with an average completion rate of 15% , but still under-satisfying.

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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. The data for 2015 is better, with an average completion rate of 15% , but still under-satisfying.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Just a bit farther down the list we find Georgia Tech, which in just two years from 2015 to 2017 grew the number of master’s degrees it awarded by 34 percent, on the strength of its disruptively low-cost MOOC-driven degrees —a groundbreaking but increasingly common offering.

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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 PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. Round Size. Total Funding.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Those tallies dipped from 2015, which saw 198 deals that totalled $1.45 It’s worth noting that even though 2016 marked the end of this trend, the dollar total still surpasses the years before 2015. Santa proved a little more parsimonious to U.S. edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 billion Series F round.).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

In fact, back in late 2015 the company got to a point of “almost certain death” unless it found a way to get at least some users to pay. The new paid offerings also turn Codecademy into a competitor to Coursera and Udacity, which started out offering free Massive Open Online Courses but later pivoted to put more energy into paid options.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. 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. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 19, 2015

And today, the number of registered MOOC students added in 2015 is nearly equal to the last three years combined. 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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In 2015, NPR came out with its tool , “Will Your Job Be Done by A Machine?” At the most recent ASU GSV Summit, machine-learning pioneer Andrew Ng (and co-founder of Coursera) warned audience members to steer their children away from becoming radiologists. But it seems clear that AI will have a deep impact on our work and our lives.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

businesses reported difficulty finding appropriately trained workers, up from 32 percent reported in 2015. The likes of Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, MasterClass, Lynda, and Pluralsight have together raised more than $1 billion and represent combined enterprise value of more than $5 billion. This dichotomy is not lost on investors.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

billion, this year’s funding total is the second-highest tally, following 2015 (which saw $1.4 PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has spent nearly $1 billion on eight companies since 2015. So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 billion across 126 deals. billion invested), since EdSurge began tracking U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. acquisition by LinkedIn in 2015 shows that billion-dollar exits are not limited to companies in higher education.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” Kindle location 1093).

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 9, 2015

A photo posted by Amanda Dykes (@amandacdykes) on Jun 9, 2015 at 1:34pm PDT. Khan academy, Coursera, EdX, etc are much better sites for academic content. Leif Rask (@lsrask) June 9, 2015. My friend Amanda Dykes , shared this slide from a presentation on Instagram: YouTube is the #1 educational site in the world.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. It was free, but offered a certificate of completion. Participants can later pay a fee to get college credit.

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Wired Campus

DECEMBER 21, 2015

And while massive open online courses have largely fallen out of the national headlines, three of the top 10 articles in 2015 involved MOOCs (in one case, charting their fade from prominence). As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In. But the big winner with readers this past year had nothing to do with the classroom.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion. Coursera (online education) –- $64 million. Is this really a trend?

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. In 2015, it was named the No. These are online representations of an earned skill, often through taking small credit courses aimed toward working and non-degree-seeking individuals.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 30, 2016

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing the last full chapter, “A Social Contract.” and Coursera’s Mission (yes, capitalized there).

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

This week we’re discussing the first chapter of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ). DeMillo dubs this the Magic Year of 2012, when his titular revolution began.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

“ Unique International College used a misleading and unlawful scheme to target vulnerable communities in 2014 and 2015, pushing individuals to enrol in courses in management, salon management and marketing.” .” “College made millions by tricking Indigenous people, court finds,” The Guardian reports.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Coursera ( $1.7B ). By 2015, the company claimed it had 40 million monthly active users, mostly in the U.S. It’s a reminder of basic business principles: Grow responsibly. Manage costs. Don’t rely on venture capital (but when you do raise some, don’t burn it all at once.) Recent US edtech “unicorns”. Course Hero ( $1.1B valuation ).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

For example, at the nonprofit where I work, nearly 190,000 people have signed up for our MOOCs in 2018 compared to around 145,000 last year and 177,000 in November, 2015. 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.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In April 2015, the American Association of Community Colleges released the results of a survey , which showed a 4.7% There are tons of free courses on sites like Coursera and edX , which bring knowledge closer to a wider audience. The fact that we have instant access to knowledge is pretty amazing, isn’t it?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To their credit, both of the leading commercial MOOCs—Udacity and Coursera—have undertaken significant pivots to their initially flawed business models. As documented by Dale Russakoff in her compelling 2015 book “The Prize,” the Newark initiative was disastrous, leaving little to show for the massive investment.

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