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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

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Coursera | Online Learning News for Learners, Educators, & Employers Coursera is a fascinating medium because it partners with prestigious universities, educational institutions, and even museums to provide students with online courses on a wide variety of topics.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. Coursera, Andela, Degreed, A Cloud Guru and Lambda School all offer courses tailored for people who want to pick up new professional skills (usually involving programming and computer science).

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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From Mexico to China: Why the World is Interested in the United States Edtech Market

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Limin Chen “They want adaptive learning tools, STEM products and learning management systems,” says Chen. “If If you run out-of-school centers you still need these kinds of systems to make the learning efficient.” “My company sent me here to check out the trends in the United States.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). When Coursera announced its pivot to corporate training, it boasted that its certificates were the second most frequently listed on LinkedIn. .”

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

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A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. These unaccredited schools argue they’re best positioned to “ close the skills gap.”