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A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of Stats and Trends for Large-Scale Online Courses in 2021

Edsurge

In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Coursera went public , while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. In March, Coursera went public on the NYSE, raising $519 million. The company is expected to bring in more than $400 million in revenue in 2021.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. LTM revenue.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

Edsurge

It aims to make it easier to instruct and discover a class on Facebook pic.twitter.com/L0BvBuTXkM — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) January 21, 2021. Coursera already offers courses from corporations—including Meta—as part of its strategy to help colleges staunch the bleeding from two years of consecutive enrollment losses.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

Edsurge

Since the beginning, the tool has focused on mobile delivery on a smartphone, and the company claims it is the leading mobile learning platform globally , with more than 500 million downloads between the Apple App Store and Google Play, and 40 million monthly active users. Duolingo has a few things going for itself. million and $15.8

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

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. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

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The Google campus in Mountain View, California. Businesses like Google, IBM, and Accenture have also made high-profile moves to boost skills-based hiring and remove bachelor’s degree requirements. In February, Google announced a $100 million partnership with Social Finance to help as many as 20,000 workers earn IT certificates.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” (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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