Edsurge
JANUARY 2, 2019
In 2018, 20 million new learners signed up for at least one MOOC, down from 23 million the year before. 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 ). edX – 18 million. 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. Levin, former president of Yale University, who led Coursera for three years after its original founders, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, stepped aside to focus on other projects.
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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.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. EdSurge: Dhawal, can you give us a brief recap on what the MOOC landscape looked like in 2018? Udacity ended 2017 with 500 employees, but they had layoffs, and ended 2018 with 330 employees.
Edsurge
JANUARY 15, 2020
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. Source: EdSurge Last year saw four mega-rounds (exceeding $100 million), compared to two in 2018, three in 2017 and one the year prior.
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. million in revenues in the first seven months of 2018. audiences). According to The Financial Times , FutureLearn generated about £8.2
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Deals across all sectors hit $66 billion, on track to match 2018’s record year, according to an analysis from PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association.
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