Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Coursera went public , while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. Now, a decade later, MOOCs have reached 220 million learners, excluding China where we don’t have as reliable data, In 2021, providers launched over 3,100 courses and 500 microcredentials. revenue ($14.7

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Voice, after all, is one of the most natural ways to interface with technology, says Coursera’s Alexander Sanchez. EdSurge: Coursera decided to build an Alexa skill because you saw voice technology as a smart investment. How do you imagine Coursera students using voice to support their learning? There's no training required.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2023

The initiatives feature partnerships with Coursera , the global online learning platform, Acadeum , the largest course sharing network in higher education, e-Dynamic Learning , a provider of Career Technical Education for middle and high school students, and Credly , a global leader in digital credentialing. Credly is a Pearson business.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Companies including Coursera and Udacity, as well as edX, a nonprofit created by Harvard University and MIT, partnered with well-known professors and colleges to offer these free courses. And they now focus on developing courses in high-demand technical areas, such as data science.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2023

Audiobooks offer the added convenience of being accessible even in situations where a print or digital ebook is not. Free and premium online courses Gone are the days when you need to go through a whole process in order to access paywalled knowledge. The Internet has made it super easy to self-educate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, Anaheim Union became the first school district in the nation to partner with Google to offer five Google Career Certificates in the growing fields of automation with Python , data analytics , IT Support, project management , and UX Design. Within our schools, we believe in strengthening teacher leadership development.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 21, 2023

Some of the big names that pop up include Khan Academy, Udemy, Coursera, Kahoot, and Udacity, to mention a few. They should serve as a logical map that guides your user or visitor to all the pages they want to access. They can analyze a more significant chunk of data faster and help you find similar patterns more efficiently.

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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. In terms of the existing [medical] workforce, there is clearly a shift in the skill set that is necessary,” says Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012. According to U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

“I find it much more engaging than reading a book,” says Engers, a 29-year-old data scientist, when asked why he does it. 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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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. Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

According to data gathered by Class Central, around 20 million new learners signed up for their first MOOC in 2017, fewer than the 23 million new learners who registered for a MOOC in 2016. Here is a list of the top five MOOC providers by registered users: Coursera: 30 million users. The total number of MOOC learners is now 78 million.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2016

An expanded federal initiative aims to use open data to improve opportunities, including educational opportunities, for Americans. The project provides easy access to curated federal and local datasets at opportunity.census.gov , and facilitates collaboration between technologists, issue experts, and community leaders.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Teachers may ask the students to access the site or download its app on their smartphones. Many apps and online tools help teachers assess their students’ understanding of a concept, get valuable data on how they are learning and learning outcomes, and modify their classroom instruction strategies. and mix it to play in class.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Some education experts have already penned that the vote is likely to pass , potentially raising the cost of accessing learning and student-success tools, prioritizing commercial and entertainment traffic over education and research, and slowing the pace of research and innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

While the global disruption of in-person education seemed poised to change that, it’s largely benefiting the biggest, already-established brands so far, according to analysts and market data. Of the 10 most-used K-12 ed-tech tools tracked by management network LearnPlatform since the start of the pandemic, eight are from Google.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

According to data from Burning Glass Technologies, 19 percent of U.S. At the graduate level, even top-ranked institutions are embracing growth, and enrollment is more open access for some new programs than in the past. Graduate education has been a bright spot in U.S. job openings in the year 2018 requested a graduate degree.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. The recent shift to remote work and instruction has left many administrators wishing they could access their tools from anywhere.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it. EdSurge: I’ve heard folks at Coursera refer to your courses and microcredential programs as “products.” It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Yet such nondegree certifications aren’t new to higher education: Colleges already offer certifications in everything from digital marketing and data analytics to cosmetology. Coursera, the biggest microcredential provider, lets students take month-long courses to develop skills for higher-paying jobs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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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. Coursera is reportedly nearing a valuation of $1 billion , which would make it a “unicorn” in Silicon Valley parlance.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

On the other side of the spectrum are countries where most of the population can only dream about higher education, because only a few — the elite — have access to it. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

On the other side of the spectrum are countries where most of the population can only dream about higher education, because only a few — the elite — have access to it. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. The expenses of operating Unmudl are shared among the community college partners and employers who pay to have access to the platform. Who Benefits?

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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

AUGUST 15, 2020

Key questions around how to help the vulnerable access training and economic opportunity, and how to support meaningful personal development and skills advancement for all learners and workers, are even more critical today. The new nature of remote work has presented challenges to all employees. Tools measuring “equivalencies” in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

This set-up allowed Make School students to access federal aid dollars. In order to complete her homework assignments, she spent hours each night re-teaching herself the material, with help from Coursera and YouTube tutorials. Much of the data that boot camps provide comes only from the students who reply to surveys.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Practicing a new language with a live person is intimidating or anxiety-inducing for a lot of people and given the choice, our data showed they’d actually prefer not to.” Coursera, which also offers access to online higher-ed courses, secured $103 million in April.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

There, students enrolled in the online or in-person course can access a discussion board about the course to ask questions or see how others got through a certain challenge. Unfortunately what has happened with edX and Coursera, they are pretty much convinced that video is the center of everything,” she says.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

University of Houston System via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera. GSE3x: Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching. University of California, Irvine via Coursera.

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myViewBoard

JUNE 20, 2019

Restricted internet access. of teachers surveyed use video in their teaching but access and the quality of good educational videos are a growing concern for teachers. Common hits are videos from dispersed free and paid-for educational videos websites such as TEDx , Udemy , Khan Academy , and Coursera. Saving & sharing.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

he’s been using virtual labs to create more realistic learning opportunities for online students—changes he believes will make quality education more authentic and accessible for all learners. Byun talks to EdSurge about how virtual labs promote active, authentic and accessible learning, and the future of online education.

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