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 6, 2017

Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. Even when people have the best intentions, they're busy.”

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

But leaders of a new platform called Unmudl say the time is right for community colleges to collaborate and make their workforce-training programs available more widely by marketing them through a shared website. All of the classes offer skills training explicitly linked to employment. Who Benefits?

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Some of them are developing their own courses to train workers in the skills the company needs. Go with a company that offers great customer support. Take some time to analyze the morale of the company that’s serving you, and see if they will be there when your team needs help. In higher education, a lot’s at stake.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

But to train this workforce effectively, we’ll need to change the way we approach education. In the past, we’ve often thought about formal education as the acquisition of broad skills at a fixed point in time, with training ending at about age 18, 22 or later for those who need advanced degrees. Mississippi Learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

More than half of the accelerator’s current education companies offer ISAs to attract students to their services. The accelerator provides companies with $150,000 in seed funding for 7 percent of the company. Blair also helps place users into jobs and offers mentorship, resume help and interview training.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The trained programmer knew there had to be a more efficient way. And so he began building a prototype for an automated online grading tool that today has grown into his company, Gradescope. Singh’s company takes a slightly different approach. Today, Gradescope announced that it has raised $2.75

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. 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.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

To counter the deficit of IT professionals in rural areas like Pine City, the college has joined three partner schools to create Teaching in the Cloud, a program that gives students access to a virtualization hub that can teach them all aspects of cloud computing, from basic database management to dealing with cybersecurity attacks.

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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. prices on a by-school or company basis.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

What’s different: The effort is career-focused, and a list of high-tech companies have signed on as advisors to help shape the curriculum and say they will consider its grads for jobs. What critics say: Many in traditional higher education don’t buy that it can replace college, and instead call it a career-training program.

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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 9:30 a.m.

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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 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. Cognotion has raised $4.4

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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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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This will require a shift in the way teachers are trained too. Teachers will assume the role of facilitators, which will require a change in how they are trained.” We will see more and more educational MOOC platforms to replace classroom training, as they afford users universal access to knowledge. Click To Tweet.

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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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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

Small start ups and giant MOOCS. All of the panelists are from companies that connect teachers directly to students. Building learning content that students can access on their own. Also important to support course developers/teachers with instructional design training since many may not come from education backgrounds.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. “Why are there 72 slides about gaming, from a company invested in EA, Zynga, Mobcrush, and Magic Leap?” I admit, I find this both an odd and a striking observation.

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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. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. And the costs were significant.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

Demographic shifts and rapid-fire technological change are upending traditional postsecondary education and workforce training. There are some 44 million working-age Americans without college degrees who are not earning a living wage, and they desperately need better access to education to advance financially.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. RECLAIM HOSTING.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. RECLAIM HOSTING.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

The teams usually responsible for corporate learning within companies, human resources, are also undergoing a period of change as they identify areas where they need to come up to speed to deliver the most tangible results for their companies. Learners are now demanding that they are educated in a way that works for them.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Disclosure/disclaimer: I am a folklorist by training.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Look up the contact information for decision-makers at companies and startups and ask if they’d be willing to share insights.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

And then you go out and you buy a company. Paucek: We acquired a company out of South Africa called GetSmarter that we thought had remarkable overlap with 2U from both a cultural, a mission, and ultimately serve a product-fit perspective. When I clicked through, I found this incredible company that was in South Africa.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2019

When executives at tech giants Salesforce and Microsoft decided in fall 2017 to turn to an online education platform to help train potential users of products for their vendors, they turned to Pierre Dubuc and his team in fall 2017. Two years later, Dubuc’s company, OpenClassrooms , has closed deals with both of them.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s news about sketchy virtual schools in the “state/local politics” section above and about K12 Inc specifically in the “job training” section below. The Business of Job Training (and Educational Benefits for Employees). ” Oh.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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