Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Lots of sites require you to log in to gain access to content, right?

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

But half of that went to just six companies, including the celebrity tutorial provider MasterClass, the online learning platform Udemy and the school and college review site Niche. Investment continues to flow to ed tech, with $803 million injected during the first six months of the year, according to the industry news website EdSurge.

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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. Online courses generally require a great deal of intrinsic motivation to complete.

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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. Cengage, for example, is providing free subscriptions to its online textbooks, and says it has seen a 55 percent increase in the number of students who have signed up for one.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Writing about online learning in higher education over the last several years, I often noted the steady growth of remote learning nationwide against the sluggish adoption of digital instruction among most Ivy League colleges. But getting your degree at an Ivy League college means mostly sitting in a classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Technology alone won’t give us these solutions. It never does.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Lori Trent, STEM Coordinator - Innovator of Inspiration and Magic RADIO SOLIDARIA AMIGA, ONLINE, UNA HERRAMIENTA INNOVADORA - Mª Magdalena Galiana Lloret. Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst.

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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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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. The latest report formerly known as the Sloan Survey of Online Learning has been released. Well, not quite.

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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. UC Berkeley Deletes Its Online Lectures.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” ” Trick question.

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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. ” Via Education Week : “For Online Schools , Unique Challenges in Serving Transgender Students.”

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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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