Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. 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.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 3, 2016

FutureLearn , a social learning company owned by The Open University, announced this week that students taking some of its massive open online courses, or MOOCS, will have the opportunity to earn course credits toward degrees, including MBAs, as well as professional qualifications and certifications. Here in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Coursera, a company that hosts massive online courses and degrees, is the latest entrant among a growing number of online education providers that are entering the medical space. The draw to host these courses on MOOC platforms, Butler says, is the chance to reach a wider audience. MOOCs, The New OPM?

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012 , their pitch to investors often included jargon around “disrupting” the way education is accessed and consumed. We are realizing that the vast reach of MOOCs makes them a powerful gateway to degrees,” Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda said in a statement.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

The colleges create course videos and assignments that are offered on the company’s platform for free—and students can pay for a certificate showing completion. RIck Levin: The advantage that we bring as a for-profit company is energy and direction and access to a labor force that's highly talented. How’s that going?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” Proponents say the new offerings will expand access to graduate education and help workers update their skills in fast-changing fields.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy. For example, our student base of 150,000 students is only 38 percent in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest. That’s a joke.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

People are using it in the hundreds, not the tens of thousands,” says Julian Alssid, chief marketplace engagement officer at SocialTech.ai, the company that runs the Unmudl platform. Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Now, it just needs students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Consider, for example, what might happen if data show that students who fit a certain profile struggle in a core course. There are laws, both state and federal, and protocols that were established long before big data and the influx of outside companies into higher education. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. Let’s take maps, for example.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

A person’s records are at hand whenever he or she is, for example, looking for a new job. Santana said in Venezuela, where he grew up, the main obstacle people face when trying to complete school is not availability or accessibility, but affordability. Krishnan said she thinks students are keen on the idea.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

An example of the kind of student PTCC seeks to help is Edwin, a student machinist who is coming to college for the first time in his mid-40s. According to Edwin, “I tried with school before, but I don’t know.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The first principle in the article above relates to access, and states: "A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics. Such large data sets can conceivably be sold on for a sizeable profit to companies who are interested.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. These efforts are not cheap.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal. Based in London, SAM’s 28-person team raised $4.5

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Examples of cognitive technologies include computer vision , deep learning, natural language processing , speech recognition, and humanised robotics. Chatbots currently exhibit limitations, especially when you ask them something they can't access in their databases. Other companies have similar two-tier systems of customer support.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Edtech companies use these buzzwords to describe the next generation of learning tools. We assume that granting learners access to education technology outside the classroom to be used on their own time is unequivocally positive. For example, can learners automatically be placed in a team on an online course platform?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

That, in theory, will allow each campus to focus its energies on what it can do best and turn to outside companies and nonprofits for the rest. It doesn’t matter where you are in terms of having access to knowledge or content. That college is like an information-rich oasis in an information-poor world. You had to go there to get it.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype? EdSurge 4:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

Paul asserts that “having access to information about their performance creates opportunities for students to recognize when they’ve made mistakes and figure out what to do to fix them.” MOOCs, for example, have provided some of the most exciting and worthwhile developments within education technology in the past couple decades.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. Another problem less well discussed is the challenge of accessibility. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

Although we have made incredible strides in expanding access to education over the course of the past century, that access has always been unevenly distributed as are the conflicts and crises that undermine education systems and educational justice everywhere. " It happens here in California, for example.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Ekowo: Why this MOOC?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. MOOCs were a vetting mechanism for Usman, allowing both his talent and grit to rise to attention and connecting him to an opportunity halfway around the world.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

The following are a few examples of learning resources that are available for ongoing education outside of high school and university: Certification Programs – Certification programs are typically training programs that are offered by tech companies or other organizations outside of traditional academia.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 12, 2017

I would love your feedback and any examples of classrooms doing this already.). Discussing this with some educators today, they had a “matching” program with a company, that matched every dollar they raised, and yes, I would take that. (This is trying to look at something that is an obstacle, and creating an opportunity.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads.

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