EdTech4Beginners

JULY 21, 2023

The Edtech industry is worth over $340 billion , and its value will keep rising as digital learning becomes even more common. Some of the big names that pop up include Khan Academy, Udemy, Coursera, Kahoot, and Udacity, to mention a few. But what do these sites have in common besides being great resources for digital learning?

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

In fact, online learning classes have been a thing for a while now. Two of the most well-known e-learning platforms – edX and Coursera – were both launched back in 2012 and were gaining new students every year. Overall, there was a positive trend in the popularity of online education, mostly due to its accessibility.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2020

Large-scale courses known as MOOCs were invented to get free or low-cost education to people who could not afford or get access to traditional options. Coursera decided to expand free access to a wider audience, for a limited time, so that they can make use of MOOC content in their teaching. As the virus spread to the U.S.,

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. Sure, having specialized software for learning is great, but these will at least start you off on the right foot. Accessibility It may seem like the world is open to technological advancements. Here are some of them.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials. Lots of sites require you to log in to gain access to content, right? In other words, the only way to get to all the material inside is to enter this walled garden of the online course by registering.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Digital learning tools are the pen and paper of our time. Digital technology is the lens through which we are experiencing the world now. In typical classrooms, students learn from textbooks or lectures and then solve the problems given at the end of the chapter. and mix it to play in class. About the author.

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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

JUNE 19, 2018

But both Coursera and EdX, two of the largest providers, do release lists of their most popular courses. Both edX and Coursera typically split revenue 50-50 with their partners, and it’s up to each college or organization to decide how their cut is shared. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.)

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn. FutureLearn was wholly owned by The Open University, a public distance-learning university in the U.K. audiences). it has its work cut out.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Now, in her role at Amazon, Marissa explains here how the Alexa Education team is creating a connection between school and home by giving students, parents, teachers and administrators a convenient way to access school-related information and content through the power of voice. Have you seen the same kind of adoption in education?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Over the past decade, researchers have tried to figure out whether MOOCs are effective in helping people attain more access to higher education. In 2013, the American Council on Education recommended colleges accept for credit 12 specific MOOCs offered by Coursera and Udacity.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the outside, the ed-tech sector may appear as if “there’s a bonanza and it’s like the dot-com boom again and everybody’s printing money,” said Michael Hansen, CEO of the K-12 and higher education digital learning provider Cengage. That is not the case.”. Its free offers are scheduled to end September 30.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

A combination of “market volatility” and “increased demand for help with remote learning led to a great opportunity to set ourselves up to raise more capital,” Grauer adds. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year. According to the EdSurge database, U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Coursera raised $103 million this year and became a unicorn, and Lambda School raised $30 million. Businesses pay $999 a year for three in-class projects and access to all institutions on the platform, project management tools, customer success support and other services.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

Along with their students, faculty were “thrown into the deep end of the pool for digital learning and asked to swim,” Moe said. Coursera is providing 550 colleges and universities with free access to its online courses. “The beauty of a residential education has never been more apparent to people.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

We’ve introduced tiered pricing models to make these paid programs equally accessible to students in places ranging from Uganda to the U.K. Avoid on-demand learning and instead impose deadlines. and have seen that people across the world often value something more when they pay something for it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

She is also aware that there isn’t always a choice of screen time vs. play time in households where parents are stressed and may not have access to quality child care. The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’. Digital Learning Day cometh. Related stories.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In April 2020, MOOC providers Coursera, edX and FutureLearn attracted as many new users in a single month as they did in the entirety of 2019. Big MOOC providers responded to the pandemic by offering free courses about COVID-19, free certificate courses, and free catalog access to university students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Here's what that growth looked like: 2017 2018 2019 Coursera 41116 edX 1910 FutureLearn 41823 Udacity 111 Total 1039 (+29)50 (+11) Perhaps these MOOC providers did not see the enrollments in these programs that they had hoped for. Coursera and FutureLearn both raised significant capital this year, coincidentally from the same investor.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Even though the cost of delivering online courses was then far less than on campus, we worried that if colleges set a lower price for remote instruction, students and their families might get the wrong impression, with lower prices signaling that digital learning was less valuable. The value of college is hard to measure.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Ivies were also late to admit Blacks , late to admit women , and now they are late to fulfilling the needs of working students by denying them online access to degrees. Going back in history, Ivies were late to respond until recently to admitting brilliant, low-income students without paying tuition.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But they will also widen access to some of the world’s best educators, and will enable more resource-constrained institutions to re-bundle their own offerings in new and less expensive ways. But the tools of online learning are undeniably powerful, even in this early stage. Technology alone won’t give us these solutions.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

It offers open enrollment--which provides much greater access for people still working--to with some of the world's most impressive schools including MIT, University of Chicago, University of Cape Town, and Harvard. As you think about the future of digital education, where do you see microcredentials fitting in?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Candidate Advanced math for the young, the very young, and the young at heart - Dr. - Sueann Galt, STEM Coordinator Does the use of ‘Learning Menus’ increase students’ intrinsic motivation?

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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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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

4:00PM: DistruptED: Who Are the Real Disruptors in Higher Ed and The Future of Work with Louise Rogers (TES Global), Chip Paucek (2U), Dennis Yang (Udemy), Rick Levin (Coursera), Vish Makhijani (Udacity) Wednesday. Register here for free access to the interviews and get the latest updates and schedule. Savoy Room).

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). ” “Can Startup College Minerva Reinvent The Ivy League Model For The Digital Age?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” “ State educational technology directors have outlined ambitious targets for increasing school bandwidth capacity in an effort to support digital learning and bridge the technology divide that exists in schools and in students’ homes,” says Education Week. ” The company in question: edX. .”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. Speaking of Blackboard , here’s a press release about Blackboard Classroom: “New Solution from Blackboard Helps K–12 School Districts Make Learning More Engaging, Personalized and Accessible.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) But new technology hasn’t made it easy.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section. ” From the Coursera blog : “New on Coursera: start-to-finish learning paths for starting a new career.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. “Inventor creates device to help fidgety kids learn better,” the AP reports.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” The test in question in ACCESS 2.0 , which recently changed how it was scored. Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. Via The Washington Post : “ Iran sentences Princeton graduate student to 10 years for espionage, report says.”

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