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Ka’Ching! 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion

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billion across 138 venture deals in 2016. It’s worth noting that even though 2016 marked the end of this trend, the dollar total still surpasses the years before 2015. Udemy did lead this pack in 2016 with a $60 million round.). In fact, the biggest funding round of 2016 for a U.S.-based billion Series F round.).

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Even if this decline doesn’t quite match the dire predictions of mass college closures that were popular in 2016, the recent history and near-term outlook for traditional higher ed is more negative than I imagined. This trend, too, has seen a jump forward due to the pandemic.

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‘Faculty Information System’ Developer, Interfolio Acquired for $110M+

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In December 2016, Tufts launched a project to centralize that information, and now offers faculty and staff free Interfolio accounts. It’s carved out a niche for education technology companies including Turnitin, Pluralsight, Udemy and Achieve3000. (It Tufts University in Massachusetts is one of those partners.

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Good Free Online Courses to Help You Better Integrate Technology in Your Teaching

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April 25, 2016 Udemy is one of the best platforms where you can access a plethora of online courses. There are actually over 40.000 courses covering different subjects from programming and media to.read more.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. The best and most digestible books I’ve found are “ The ABCS of How We Learn ,” a 2016 book by Daniel Schwartz and “ How People Learn ,” the 1999 foundational text edited by John Bransford, Ann Brown, and Rodney Cocking. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers.

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?Filling the Other Skills Gap

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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. Census Bureau 2016; U.S. These workers recovered only 80,000, or 1 percent, of those job losses between 2010 and 2016. And this is just online.

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

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In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 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 kilometers, and gave each other 1.3