Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. Our own venture capital firm, New Markets Venture Partners, rode these tailwinds ourselves, successfully selling four companies in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 at generous valuations. billion in mid-October, 2021, to $62.8 million students in 2021, a 5.1

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

We should pause and ask which approach really, truly, provides access to more people – (1) the Python for Everybody GitHub repo with an excellent README and all the 5R permissions or (2) the ready-to-use version of Python for Everybody on Coursera? Really think about it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Coursera, for example, reported that as of the end of 2020, it had grown to having more than 77 million registered learners on its platform from more than 190 countries—although not all of those people are taking courses for credit or are seeking credentials. Overall, “primarily online institutions” in the U.S.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2021

Eddie Maloney and Joshua Kim go further, seeing the 2U+edX combination as a challenger to the much larger Coursera. — Paul Fain (@paulfain) June 29, 2021. What we see now are OPMs on steroids. As Paul Fain put it , “MOOCs have become OPMs.” " [link].

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MOOC Coursera Analysis Online Learning 92

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

(Because that’s not possible in the short term, Verto is offering an online experience for the fall in partnership with Minerva, and then plans for students to travel abroad in the second semester in 2021, Verto’s CEO Mitch Gordon said.) Far from it.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. It expects to finish fundraising in spring 2021, and cap the fund off at roughly $88 million. The global education technology industry is headed for a record-setting year when it comes to venture capital investments. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

That’s what happened to the likes of Coursera, NovoEd and Udacity. A National Association for Business Economics survey this month put the odds of this happening before 2021 at 60 percent. Some economists expect a recession in the near future, though not one as drastic as the Great Recession.

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Coursera Company Learning Analysis 89

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When Make School suddenly closed in 2021, Dominican leaders were in uncharted territory, left to figure out how to help 167 students continue their education, a spokesperson said. In order to complete her homework assignments, she spent hours each night re-teaching herself the material, with help from Coursera and YouTube tutorials.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

In a report on the “emerging degree reset” released earlier this year, the labor analytics firm Burning Glass found that just 9 percent of Accenture’s “computer support specialist” listings required a bachelor’s in 2021, down from 46 percent in 2017. yearly median of $36,660.

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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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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” (Edsurge, for what it’s worth, shares investors with Class Central, Udacity, and Coursera (although there’s no disclosure on that article to that end) – funny how the narratives about the “revolutionary” potential of MOOCs get spread, eh?). .” Test Preparation Market Through 2021.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Put simply, the short-lived recession of 2020 has given way to a massive shortage of workers and skills in 2021–and placed talent strategy and human capital back at the top of corporations’ strategic agendas. And employers are competing to attract and retain employees in what is being called a “ war for talent. ”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. Anyway, via Venture Beat : “Juniper Research: VR hardware market will hit $50 billion by 2021.” Raise $146.1 million in venture funding; ask people to work for you for free. Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” .” Via Reuters : “Some U.S. ” More via Wired.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. ” Via Campus Technology : “ IoT to Represent More Than Half of Connected Device Landscape by 2021.” ” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section. ” From the Coursera blog : “New on Coursera: start-to-finish learning paths for starting a new career.”

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