Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

2U and the OPM market have come under fire in recent years for, in effect, encouraging unsustainably high graduate program tuition, thus increasing student debt, culminating in the Wall Street Journal article about the University of Southern California’s Online Masters of Social Work that charged upwards of $115,000 for a two-year program.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Since then, the online education, education technology and workforce innovation industry has gone through three increasingly larger “waves” which I described in that previous article , and concerns that our industry was “ jumping the shark ” in 2017 have been proven premature. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. million in 2019 to 18.6

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. Essentially, these teachers are now taking a learning engineering approach to their own instruction.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

So, I'm not sure I have a lot to say about what happened, what stories were told in 2019. Far too many articles — and this is surely what its venture capitalist and philanthropist backers hope — have not reflected the landscape but have tried instead to shape it. Something about "learning engineers". Udacity got a new CEO.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” I wrote about Whittle and his investment pal Michael Moe in an article in The Baffler in January of this year.

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