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

Edsurge

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. EdX is like a distant No.

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?Why an iTunes Model for Online Learning Is Bad for Educators

Edsurge

Many online learning platforms, such as LinkedIn Learning and MasterClass, are indeed pivoting towards business models that look a lot like subscription-based streaming services Pandora, Spotify or Netflix. Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content. monthly minimum wage.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager.

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Colleges Are Losing Students. Is That A Growth Opportunity For Coursera?

Edsurge

To Coursera, the online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” that went public last year , this may represent an opportunity to serve as an institutional bridge for some of these universities in the struggle to stop the bleeding. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.

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What Is Being Learned From MOOCs? New Report Takes Stock

Wired Campus

The hype around the free online courses called MOOCs has drawn millions of students, who are all essentially part of a teaching experiment of unprecedented scale. A new report, released on Thursday, seeks to answer the question “Where is research on massive open online courses headed?”

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

Edsurge

These dynamics are at the center of what my colleagues and I have been studying in our recent research with employers exploring this new landscape for workplace learning. Our analysis highlights a world in which learning is increasingly more digital, delivered when it is needed, and done in shorter and less structured ways than in the past.

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

Edsurge

In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. Our analysis excludes companies whose primary business is to offer loans and happens to serve students (like Social Finance, which raised $500 million earlier this year). based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round.

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