Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. 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.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 199

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

More than half of the accelerator’s current education companies offer ISAs to attract students to their services. We are seeing these spread around the world.” (Here’s who presented in 2019’s first cohort.) The accelerator provides companies with $150,000 in seed funding for 7 percent of the company.

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Education Company MOOC Course 114

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

K-12 will follow by 2019. Small start ups and giant MOOCS. All of the panelists are from companies that connect teachers directly to students. Building learning content that students can access on their own. If company receives a DMCA notice they remove the content. Notes from panel discussion at SXSWedu.

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Udemy Education MOOC Survey 49

Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

In fact, in 2019, UNESCO estimated that 258 million children — about one in six of the school-age population — were not in school. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. 150,000 a year to lease coaxial cables from Bell Telephone Company, for example. Disease, war, natural disaster — there are many reasons why.

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 140

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. Yeah, I quite disagree,” added Maria Andersen, CEO and co-founder of Coursetune, a company that makes software designed to help colleges redesign their curriculum. Shane Mares (@smares1) May 11, 2019.

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MOOC Course Meeting Company 154

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Rather than our traditional conception of “training” as a time-out from everyday work to visit to a classroom, on-the-job learning is increasingly about access to just-in-time, job-relevant content—often via a laptop or a smartphone, whether at a desk or on a manufacturing shop floor.

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Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 171

Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I won’t write the series in 2019 either, so this is the very last Hack Education Weekly News. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.”

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MOOC Education Elsevier Report 78

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The New York Times notes it’s not just rural students who struggle with broadband access : “Why San Jose Kids Do Homework in Parking Lots.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) on Coursera.”

Education 53

Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 53

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge.

Education 58

Education MOOC Social Media E-rate 58

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. ” (Among those education companies in Binary Capital’s investment portfolio : Educents.).

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um,

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Feds Prod Universities to Address Website Accessibility Complaints.” ” The subhead asks if “fully accessible” is possible, which… sucks. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The tutoring company has $494.2 But nice PR.).

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Education Robotics Pearson Company 54

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” The proposed bill would eliminate the 15-year time limit on accessing education benefits. Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” and from Hacker News.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Department ’s Privacy Office to Take Effect in Early 2019.” ” Via Chalkbeat : NYC schools Chancellor Richard “Carranza unveils capital plan with $750 million in fixes for disability access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Business of Financial Aid.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Vive la MOOC Révolution. It’s not simply that the predictions were wrong.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55