Edsurge
JANUARY 5, 2022
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. Young When a campus safety tool turns into a surveillance device. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. By Jeffrey R.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 28, 2018
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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Wired Campus
APRIL 30, 2015
What his product does: tool to help professors build interactive online materials. There’s a lot of tools out there that are pretty sophisticated right now for graphics and interfaces in college-level courses. But the cool thing about Versal is that you’re not limited to our own tools. Freund: It can get quite sophisticated.
Edsurge
JUNE 17, 2017
Startups that are attempting to build the following tools are at least 10 years too late to the party, especially if they’re attempting to tackle the US market. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Now, the market is pretty much locked up. Yet another student book exchange. Yet another LMS.
Hack Education
APRIL 14, 2017
“Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via Desmos : “The Desmos Geometry Tool.” “A bipartisan proposal in the U.S. .
Hack Education
MAY 18, 2018
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The app in question is Quizlet , a digital flash card tool that allows students to share their study notes. Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. Via The Blade : “School that took ECOT students wants poor scores ignored.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Purdue boasted that Course Signals increased retention by 21%, making it an incredibly effective tool. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Uber for Education". “We
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