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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 Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. A math professor makes the case for using class time for active learning. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. By Jeffrey R.

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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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Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist.

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

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But it expects to add more majors soon, and not all of them will be in technology, says Braun, who says that nursing is one that is being considered. They include Facebook, Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Warby Parker, Casper, Birchbox, Plated, 2U, and Chegg. “In In designing our curriculum, we actually start with employers first,” says Braun.

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

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Our sharks were Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle; Jason Jones, a co-editor of the ProfHacker blog and director of educational technology at Trinity College, in Connecticut; and Paul Freedman, founder of Entangled Ventures, an education-technology company. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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Chatbots are hip and cool these days and, while I agree that they have a lot of potential, most of the pitches are simply applications that turn IBM Watson’s natural language processing technology loose on a university’s existing FAQ page. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. 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.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."