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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Nearly 10 years later, Coursera has in fact become a unicorn, valued at well over the billion-dollar mark, and in March it started trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company. And how is edX doing by comparison? EdX is like a distant No.

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A Record Year Amid a Pandemic: US Edtech Raises $2.2 Billion in 2020

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Roblox is followed by Coursera and CampusLogic, which respectively offer online courses and financial management tools to colleges and universities. Juni Learning, a similar service, secured $10.5 What were already tight [school] budgets shrunk even more due to the pandemic,” says Pope. Some orders were backlogged for months.)

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Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019

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Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. They explain that they either come to MOOCs with specific learning goals that they selectively pursue or are simply not motivated to earn a certificate.

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