Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. billion in mid-October, 2021, to $62.8 percent since going public in October 2021 at $29/share. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc.

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 184

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings. Today, there is ample evidence of demand for new types of educational credentials—especially since the start of the pandemic.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 201

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. It expects to finish fundraising in spring 2021, and cap the fund off at roughly $88 million. This milestone and the timing are where we wanted to be when we launched Brighteye in 2017,” says Benoit Wirz, a partner at Brighteye Ventures. “It

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 110

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

That’s what happened to the likes of Coursera, NovoEd and Udacity. A McKinsey survey conducted in 2017 found that 62 percent of executives believe over a quarter of their workforce will need retraining or replacing between now and 2023, due to automation and digitization.

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Coursera Company Learning Analysis 88

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

In a report on the “emerging degree reset” released earlier this year, the labor analytics firm Burning Glass found that just 9 percent of Accenture’s “computer support specialist” listings required a bachelor’s in 2021, down from 46 percent in 2017. Merit America co-CEO Rebecca Taber Staehelin. yearly median of $36,660.

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Training Google Report Coursera 126

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

. … The state has until September 1, 2018 ‘to fully implement its program for basic education’ and it must have a plan for funding and implementing ‘by the final adjournment of the 2017 legislative session,’ the court said in a ruling written by Chief Justice Barbara Madsen.” Raise $146.1

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. Via Chalkbeat : “New York City’s largest school charter network, Success Academy , has won the 2017 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44