Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Here’s a look at the biggest edtech business stories of 2019—the ones that captured the most attention, and the ones that should have your attention. Yes, stay tuned for our 2019 analysis.) Coursera Pushes into Unicorn Status After Raising $103 Million by Jeffrey R. Or, rather, the sound of ka’ching!

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera, can’t hide his excitement about AI. He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” And it’s not the only high-tech strategy that Coursera employs to shepherd users through courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s a self-reinforcing strategy that is the same one followed by Coursera. They did it in 2019 when they realized the increased level of competition between online programs was leading to lower enrollment expectations, and they are doing it now. edX was never the premier MOOC brand—that title belongs to Coursera.

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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. I think we'll see more of this in this 2019 too.

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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. Coursera plans to have up to 20 online degrees by the end of 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates. A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

In the past, GSV has also invested in non-education companies through another fund, GSV Capital, which rebranded in 2019 and is no longer part of the network. Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014. We see an explosion of startups.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here is a list of the top five MOOC providers by registered users: Coursera: 30 million users. Coursera saw paying users rise by 70 percent this year. Coursera plans to launch 15-20 degrees by 2019, while FutureLearn has announced that they will launch 50 degrees in partnership with Coventry University. XuetangX: 9.3

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In October 2019, they received a certification in Learning Articulate Storyline 360 from LinkedIn. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates. In addition to their formal education, Robert has pursued further professional development by obtaining certifications.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We’ve been really excited about collaborating with edtech developers—we now have skills available to customers from Kickboard, ParentSquare, Coursera, Blackboard and Canvas. Categories like Productivity, Education & Reference and Kids saw triple digit growth in 2019.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. College students are turning to digital tutoring platforms like Chegg and online course providers like Coursera, both of which have performed well over the last few months.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Companies like Coursera, which helps universities build and access online courses, have ridden the momentum from new registrations to secure a $130 million investment in July. So far there are 45,000 verified educators on the platform, up from 20,000 in August 2019, according to Grauer. According to the EdSurge database, U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in. The company also noted that “in 2019 and 2020, we had net losses of $13.6 million and $15.8 million, respectively.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

That amount is a 17 percent dip from the $962 million we tracked for the first six months of 2019 (which ended up being a record year for US edtech venture capital.) Crunchbase data showed that first-half global venture investments declined by 7 percent, to $129 billion, from the same period in 2019. In the first half of 2020, U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Online education companies, including Coursera and Duolingo, also use Examity to verify the identities of students who earn certificates. and $19 billion globally in 2019. Today, more than 75 percent of Examity’s 500-plus customers are colleges and universities, including Indiana University and Texas A&M. billion in the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. million in 2019 to 18.6 Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. education and workforce technology companies: Six companies went public at valuations above $1 billion: PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. NYSE: NRDY).

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RafranzDavis.com

MARCH 16, 2022

I’ll fix that today) Some background… When I left my K-12 job at the end of my contract in 2019, I did not anticipate the next few years of course. The American Dream Academy by Coursera and the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream Trailhead by Salesforce Hubspot Academy The Customer Success Project? —?I

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Coursera just raised $130 million and reported that its enterprise business, which serves over 2,500 companies, has grown 70 percent year over year and now accounts for a quarter of its revenue. Employees are also demanding a greater variety of resources, and companies are responding.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

based education technology company to claim the vaunted unicorn status in 2019. Coursera, which also offers access to online higher-ed courses, secured $103 million in April. Duolingo is the third U.S.-based

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A series of large fundraising deals in a record-setting 2019 for U.S. education technology companies have propelled Coursera , Duolingo and Guild Education to the unicorn stable. Course Hero is the first entrant in 2020. “I I think it is a nice milestone, and it does represent scale and accomplishments,” Grauer acknowledges.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Yet when Levine spoke with college presidents during the pandemic last spring, “for the most part what they told me was they can’t wait to get past this and back to 2019,” he said during a panel I moderated at the summit. Related: Hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs. And that is not going to happen.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

The Burning Glass “degree reset” report, which Fuller co-wrote, found that between 2017 and 2019, the number of positions requiring a B.A. Merit America provided a stipend that helped him afford a bus pass to attend job counseling sessions while he completed a 13-week Coursera program to earn a Google IT certification.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

But in 2019, the hype seems to have subsided: only 11 online degrees were announced this year. Here's what that growth looked like: 2017 2018 2019 Coursera 41116 edX 1910 FutureLearn 41823 Udacity 111 Total 1039 (+29)50 (+11) Perhaps these MOOC providers did not see the enrollments in these programs that they had hoped for.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In April 2020, MOOC providers Coursera, edX and FutureLearn attracted as many new users in a single month as they did in the entirety of 2019. Coursera has already capitalized on these circumstances: it doubled its valuation and is considering going public in 2021. These learners also turned out to be more engaged than usual.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As we move towards 2019, it’s time to get clearer about this difference and start asking smarter questions about what MOOCs can and should be expected to accomplish. A recent study from Columbia University’s Teachers College on EdX and Coursera courses indicated that their MOOC certificate programs had completion rates of 15 percent or less.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

billion invested in 2019 , which was spread across 105 deals. companies reached a record $130 billion in 2020 , or up 14 percent from 2019. Roblox is followed by Coursera and CampusLogic, which respectively offer online courses and financial management tools to colleges and universities. In 2020, U.S. edtech industry.

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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. The OPM company acquired the coding bootcamp Trilogy Education in April, but its stocks fell sharply when it had to adjust its growth projections for 2019. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And the number of active students in short-form offerings brokered by the company has grown ten-fold from the end of 2019 to the end of 2020.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

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.) Correction: This is the Class of 2019.). .” Also via NPR : “The Benefits Of Taking Out Loans For College.”

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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 last half of WeWork’s 2019 was an unmitigated disaster. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. Common Wood Pigeon. WeGrow and WeWork.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Enrollment Implications Regarding Directive for Online Community College in California.” ” More on court cases involve online charter schools in the legal section above.

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Hack Education

MARCH 31, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Online education platform Coursera has set a goal of offering 15 to 20 degree programs by the end of 2019. ” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s Rick Levin on the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials.”

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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. Coursera also brought on a new CEO : Jeff Maggioncalda, whose previous job was in the financial planning industry.

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