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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 By Sabyn Javeri In a Zoom classroom, the teacher is no longer the central authority, argues the author of this essay, who explains why she thinks that’s good for education. Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is down 50.8 percent, the company went public via SPAC in June 2021 at $10/share.

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MissionU Says It Can Replace Traditional College With a One-Year Program

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MissionU won’t build a traditional campus: Teaching will be done online—although classes will be held at set times in virtual classrooms (in other words, synchronously). They include Facebook, Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Warby Parker, Casper, Birchbox, Plated, 2U, and Chegg. “In The bachelor’s degree as a one-size-fits all no longer works.”

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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A lot of the technology that’s built for the classroom is organizational technologies like, Hey, organize this better, organize that better, get a lot of stuff out of there. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? In fact, a freebie option is emerging as some schools are adopting Google Classroom as a lightweight LMS. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Yet another student book exchange. How are you better than. Yet another LMS. Yet another Test Prep Provider. Facebook is.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. Very thorough research, gj.