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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

Edsurge

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5 But they are not done with higher education yet.

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European Edtech Investor Brighteye Ventures Raises $54 Million for Second Fund

Edsurge

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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When universities slap their names on for-profit coding boot camps

The Hechinger Report

Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. 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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” 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 Recode : “ Google CEO Sundar Pichai canceled an all-hands meeting about gender controversy due to employee worries of online harassment.”