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.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

I typically start by developing an Empathy Guide like the one put together by the Stanford d.school or reviewing the free book by Giff Constable, “ Talking to Humans ” to structure productive conversations. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. The first year I put my courses [on Udemy, an online course market], I had about 12 hours worth of content.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

One of the best books I read this year was Bad Blood by WSJ journalist John Carreyou. Udemy (skills training): $173 million. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Coursera (online education): $210.1 And its CEO stepped down.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

According to David Callahan, editor of the website Inside Philanthropy and author of the 2017 book The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy , philanthropists have more power than ever before, and “that influence is likely to grow far greater in coming decades.” Udemy (skills training) – $173 million.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. Udemy has a new CEO : “Kevin Johnson, former CEO of EBates, a marketplace for coupons and shopping discount deals.” The MOOC provider has now raised $210 million total. ” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” Noteworthy: this is the third recent ed-tech investment by Naspers – a South African media conglomerate and “ the former mouthpiece of apartheid ” – which recently backed Udemy and Brainly.).

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