Edsurge
MAY 13, 2021
Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The Singapore-based company Genius Group has turned some of its attention to the U.S. In July, the company bought the for-profit University of Antelope Valley in California, saying it would incorporate it as a portal in the metaverse, part of the voguish effort to link the globe into “one big classroom.” edtech market recently.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2021
What that metaverse will look like is still a bit vague, but the company gave some hints in prepared statements and in an hour-long video it released. In 2014 the company bought VR company Oculus for $2 billion. And he is targeting education as one key part of that vision. Zuckerberg’s interest in virtual reality is nothing new.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 26, 2021
He’s even written a book about an approach called “ Flipped Learning ,” where professors ask students to watch lecture videos before they come to class so that class time can focus more on experiences and other forms of learning. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
“I find it much more engaging than reading a book,” says Engers, a 29-year-old data scientist, when asked why he does it. He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year.
Edsurge
JULY 28, 2021
billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. started as a publishing category, where people would pay small amounts of money for books or CDs to learn a language. billion, making its total valuation more than $4.7
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