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. tech firms, including edtech players. billion by 2018.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

Some of it has already been invested in startups including Class Technologies, which is building an instructional video platform on Zoom; Guild Education, which works with companies to provide educational opportunities to their employees; and Photomath, an app that shows students how to solve math problems, step by step, just by taking a picture.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

With many communities anxious to enhance local school systems and increase opportunities for students, teachers and pupils, 2016 appears poised to witness a lot of exciting new developments in the world of education technology. These venues range from MOOCs (free massive online open courses) to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year, I also published a number of supplemental articles detailing the funding for each of these “trends”: How Much Venture Capital Did Ed-Tech Raise in 2016? Who Were 2016’s Most Active Ed-Tech Investors? Who’s Funding MOOCs in 2016? Who Received Gates Foundation Grants in 2016?

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

2016 is now well underway, but few could say how it will end or what major changes we’ll see as the year unfurls. In 2016, I believe we will see more learners creating, making, programming, coding, producing, innovating, inventing, designing, problem solving and publishing. GoConqr Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Koller, who left Coursera in 2016, is currently CEO of Insitro, a drug-development startup that raised $143 million in May.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. edtech companies.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

As MOOCs surged in popularity from 2012 to 2015, universities, nonprofits, schools and companies all jumped into the game of developing online courses, and giving them away—often at the promise of no cost—to the world. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.

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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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 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 I could hardly blame them.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

WestJet, an airline company in Canada, actually has all their employees as shareholders as well. With this line of thinking, if you do your job poorly, the company loses, which means the value of the stocks you own goes down. May 16, 2016 Meaningful Change is On All of Us September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. In addition to the Engrade and Smarter acquisitions, another Rethink portfolio company, 2U, went public in 2014. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.)

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. We invite up to 1,000 students who have previously completed two or more of our free MOOCs to apply to participate in these challenges.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

If Blockbuster was still around today, and you had to take out your life savings and invest in that company or Netflix, which one would you choose? Ask Blockbuster, Kodak, multiple music distribution companies, just for starters. July 28, 2014 Investing in Individuals First September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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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.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

Today at 8pm GMT, the second #EDENchat of 2016 will be live on Twitter. 3) How are MOOCs and other massive open study opportunities changing or influencing out thinking as educators? Are we in danger of being left behind if our organisation/institution is not involved in MOOCs? 4) Is open content truly 'free'?

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Of these, 75 percent took online and/or blended courses because they have a personal interest in the topic, or hoped to gain additional knowledge about it, the 2016 SIIA Vision K-20 Professional Learning Survey found. Company/vendor: 29 percent. See also: Research Update: K-12 Teachers Turning to MOOCs for Professional Development.

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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.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 12, 2017

Discussing this with some educators today, they had a “matching” program with a company, that matched every dollar they raised, and yes, I would take that. July 24, 2016 11 Books To Further an #InnovatorsMindset September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 5, 2018

I have seen schools get sponsorships from furniture companies to test out different furniture on learning days to see what they look like from the perspective of a learner. April 18, 2018 Wonder, Explore, Lead September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! The simplest ideas often have the biggest impact.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

During this 60 minute session, AdmitHub CEO Andrew Magliozzi will reveal insights from his company’s 2016 trial with Georgia State University, where a chatbot exchanged 185,000 messages with more than 3,100 students. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality.

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. The MOOC movement is frequently disparaged because completion rates are abysmally low. Rethinking the 5% Completion Rate.

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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. Or it will affect higher education in ways that we cannot even predict from the vantage of 2016. About the Author: Hossein Rahnama.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

What’s different: The effort is career-focused, and a list of high-tech companies have signed on as advisors to help shape the curriculum and say they will consider its grads for jobs. Where it stands: Ortiz announced the effort in early 2016, and is apparently still doing fundraising and planning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). Hosting is now about alternatives and independence.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). Hosting is now about alternatives and independence.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) ” – 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. Either way. as well as honored to be here.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

The teams usually responsible for corporate learning within companies, human resources, are also undergoing a period of change as they identify areas where they need to come up to speed to deliver the most tangible results for their companies. Learners are now demanding that they are educated in a way that works for them.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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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. Wishful Thinking. The Politics of Education Technology.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria--most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh.

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