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Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall

Edsurge

Coursera, which provides online courses to higher-ed institutions, businesses and government agencies, has raised $130 million in a Series F round led by NEA. Previous investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared also participated. Coursera for Campus launched last October.

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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

Edsurge

The typical employee has one percent of their time available for learning, according to research by Bersin by Deloitte. When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. Well, at least partially open.

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What Workforce Education Is Learning From the Pandemic

Edsurge

Online learning—often touted as an up-and-coming way of delivering education—took its place on the world stage as the de facto model, regardless of how prepared students, employees and educators were for the experience. Virtual learning is here to stay, and focus is turning to engagement and efficacy.

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50 Free Online Courses For Educators: Spring 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects. University of California, San Diego via Coursera. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 3: Learners and Learning. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera. Harvard University via edX.

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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

The Hechinger Report

This semester “has the potential to raise expectations of using these online resources to complement what we were doing before, in an evolutionary way, not a revolutionary way,” said Eric Fredericksen, associate director for higher education at the Center for Learning in the Digital Age at the University of Rochester.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions.

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