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. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 At Coursera, our relationships have been more targeted.
Hack Education
AUGUST 11, 2017
Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Post, Sources Say.” ” More via Wired.
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Hack Education
OCTOBER 14, 2016
” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. . ” These colleges no longer offer federal loans because of students’ high default rates.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 4, 2016
True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. .”
Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2017
Via CNET : “ Verizon to pay $17M to resolve FCC, Justice E-Rate probes.” The school is listed in this 2015 story by Inside Higher Ed on for-profits “where more than half of federal student loan borrowers had not made a single dollar of progress in paying down their loans seven years after they became due.”
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
” Via The Recorder : “Four cities including Boston could face downgrades in their bond ratings if state voters approve an expansion of charter schools, a major credit rating agency suggested this week.” “ Coursera ’s new monthly subscriptions could monetize procrastination,” says Techcrunch.
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