Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 31, 2017

Learners can join the Solar Eclipse 2017 Life Responds citizen science project and record eclipse-related animal behavior with the iNaturalist iOS/Android app. Take the free Coursera online course about the 2017 Solar Eclipse. A Resource Guide to Exploring Eclipses in General and the August 21, 2017 Total Eclipse of the Sun.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

MOOC providers’ constant tweaking of the model seems to be paying off, as companies such as Coursera are hitting record revenues ( $140 million in 2018 for Coursera ). Here is a list of the top five MOOC providers by registered users: Coursera – 37 million. Despite the slowdown, the number of paying users may have increased.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

2017 vs. Previous Years. Coursera (online education) – $64 million. Coursera (online education service provider) – $210.1 The Most Active Investors of 2017. There are just 9 firms that have made three or more investments in 2017: Reach Capital (2017 investments: AdmitHub, Holberton School, Nearpod, Epic!,

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. This means that halfway through 2017, the funding for U.S. The 2017 number is inflated, however, by three gargantuan fundraises by EverFi ($190 million), Hero K12 ($150 million) and Grammarly ($110 million). Round Size. 14 $1.6M $1.5M

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. As for the MOOC providers, Coursera is the biggest one—with the most revenue and the most number of users, and also the most number of employees. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

based edtech startups in 2017 saw a resurgence of investment capital. Yet at 126 deals, the number of fundraises in 2017 is also at its lowest since 2011. We counted five such deals, and if we took their funding into account, the 2017 total would be close to $1.8 million in 2017. Deals of 2017. edtech companies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well. Coursera, Andela, Degreed, A Cloud Guru and Lambda School all offer courses tailored for people who want to pick up new professional skills (usually involving programming and computer science).

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn. In 2017, it enlisted five U.S. audiences). FutureLearn was wholly owned by The Open University, a public distance-learning university in the U.K.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

However, Coursera vice president Julia Stiglitz added that even platforms like her company’s likely won’t eliminate the traditional college model. “I I don’t think the Coursera experience will replace what happens in a residential [college] experience,” she said in a panel about college majors. Salisbury (@amdulin) August 30, 2017.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2017

At the recently concluded EMOOCs conference , the then CEO of Coursera, Rick Levin, shared his thoughts on this shift. Eighty-nine percent of Coursera learners are over the age of 22. 89% of @coursera learners are over the age of 22 pic.twitter.com/cGp0qmVMUW. Dhawal Shah (@dhawalhshah) May 30, 2017.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn. According to Class Central, a website that reviews MOOCs, at least 44 MOOC platforms existed in 2017. The top five unsurprisingly included Coursera, edX, Udacity and FutureLearn, with a new contender, XutangX from China. And why would MOOCs need to decolonize?

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Unfortunately, this experience can’t be replicated in 2017. Coursera Coursera aggressively tweaks its monetization model, which can lead to constant changes in how its courses work. A good majority of the new courses on Coursera are part of a specialization, a series of short courses that lead a microcredential.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

By registration count, Coursera is still by far the largest MOOC provider in the world with over 23 million learners. Of the top five providers, only XuetangX is an non-English platform: Coursera - 23 million edX - 10 million XuetangX - 6 million FutureLearn - 5.3 Coursera has added several paid-only courses since then.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” One example is the University of California at Davis Extension, which offers five “Specializations” through Coursera.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

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. When Coursera partnered with Guokr in 2013 , we were featured with only a few other partners. At Coursera, our relationships have been more targeted. billion by 2018. McKinsey & Co.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public. billion in 2017. GSV Ventures launched in 2016 with a $97 million fund, and has since invested in 65 edtech companies. Several past GSV investments have turned into a big payday.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

4:00PM: DistruptED: Who Are the Real Disruptors in Higher Ed and The Future of Work with Louise Rogers (TES Global), Chip Paucek (2U), Dennis Yang (Udemy), Rick Levin (Coursera), Vish Makhijani (Udacity) Wednesday. 2:00PM: Mapping EdTech Globally by Navitas Ventures. 2:00PM: Mapping EdTech Globally by Navitas Ventures.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Those elite eight—Guild Education, BetterUp, Coursera, Andela, Degreed, MindTickle, EdCast and A Cloud Guru—accounted for 39 percent of edtech investing in 2019. Source: EdSurge Last year saw four mega-rounds (exceeding $100 million), compared to two in 2018, three in 2017 and one the year prior.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Coursera is known to work with both K-12 and higher education institutions and provide them with access to online courses. Explore and enjoy! For Online Courses/Blended Learning. Everyone who took at least one online course on this platform knows how great it is.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. 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 In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

adults had attained a master’s degree before age 30–but by 2017, this share had doubled to 9.2 As of 2017, according to U.S. According to data from Burning Glass Technologies, 19 percent of U.S. job openings in the year 2018 requested a graduate degree. Overall, 13 percent of American adults now hold a graduate degree. percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

However, as more online learning companies raise their Series D funding rounds , and players from Duolingo to Coursera try to figure out sustainable business models, we’ve reached a juncture where we need to think about the issues of equity that come with chasing paying customers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Now, MOOC providers like edX and Coursera are looking towards new (and sometimes paid) offerings, as well as so-called “MicroBachelors” degrees designed to break up undergraduate credential into discrete components. So what do the top courses on MOOC platforms like edX and Coursera tell us about where teaching is heading?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

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. The company started looking for more funding in spring 2017, and a year later returned on the fundraising trail in pursuit of Series B funding.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today Duolingo numbers 200 employees, up from 95 in July 2017, when the company last raised funding. Coursera, which also offers access to online higher-ed courses, secured $103 million in April. Top grossing education apps, according to Sensor Tower. As its users, offerings and revenues have grown, so too has its headcount.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In 2017, the company started building a place where they can share their own syllabi, presentations, lesson plans, test questions and other course materials with their peers. education technology companies have propelled Coursera , Duolingo and Guild Education to the unicorn stable. Course Hero is the first entrant in 2020. “I

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

An historically low labor force participation rate of 63 percent in September 2017 represents nearly 100 million Americans neither employed, nor looking for work. 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.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Venture Capital in 2017. Is this really a trend?

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

According to the 2017 PWC Global CEO survey , human capital was among CEO’s top-three business priorities—alongside developing digital and technology capabilities. The extension of federal funds to non-institutional providers such as coding bootcamps already has a recent if still under-the-radar example in the 2017 “Forever GI Bill.”

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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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy. Those were a couple of the questions debated at #DLNchat on Tuesday, October 9, when we discussed how nontraditional education providers could influence the future of digital learning.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

From the press release : “FBI Releases 2017 Hate Crime Statistics.” From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) ” (deeplearning.ai More from Edsurge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

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. I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. What was happening?

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Bederson: Inspires & supports effective teaching, equitable teaching, efficient teaching, and engaging teaching. Applies to U. Maryland and U Penn. Pros & Cons of Organizational Structure Lead with pedagogy first.

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