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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

Edsurge

Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. College students are turning to digital tutoring platforms like Chegg and online course providers like Coursera, both of which have performed well over the last few months.

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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

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After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. We’ve seen the most interest in SaaS (software-as-a-service) models where the product is complementary to an existing platform.”. Are investors still eager to put their money in education startups? Deals of 2017.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

The Hechinger Report

The Google campus in Mountain View, California. Businesses like Google, IBM, and Accenture have also made high-profile moves to boost skills-based hiring and remove bachelor’s degree requirements. In February, Google announced a $100 million partnership with Social Finance to help as many as 20,000 workers earn IT certificates.

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Are Free Educational Videos Worth It?

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The majority of teachers who responded to our survey reported they tend to search for videos online using search engines such as YouTube (83%) and Google (61%). Common hits are videos from dispersed free and paid-for educational videos websites such as TEDx , Udemy , Khan Academy , and Coursera. The solution to free and the numerous.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D. Or must they take a leave of absence?

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. ASU Global Freshman Academy, Coursera and edX have taken the StraighterLine model—and pushed it even further. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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Higher Ed Has Now Split Into Dual Economies: Online and Traditional

Edsurge

A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. Enrollment in the school’s online MBA, launched in 2016, jumped from 114 initially to 1,955 today.

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