Edsurge
JANUARY 2, 2019
In the seven years since colleges and companies first started experimenting with large-scale online courses known as MOOCs, more than 100 million people have given them a try—though how they are used keeps changing. In 2018, 20 million new learners signed up for at least one MOOC, down from 23 million the year before. edX – 18 million.
Edsurge
JUNE 13, 2017
Two Stanford University professors with little background in business started Coursera about five years ago with a mission to bring free education to the masses. These days the company looks and feels very different (and it’s backed by $210-million in venture capital). Initially they even considered making it a non-profit ).
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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?
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. billion by 2018. 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.
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds.
Edsurge
JANUARY 15, 2020
According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66 By dollars, 2019’s deal value saw a 16 percent increase from the previous year, even with five fewer less deals than 2018’s tally. Venture capitalists invested more money in 2018 and 2000.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future. This trend, too, has seen a jump forward due to the pandemic.
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