Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Virtual Classrooms and Labs. The concept of virtual classrooms has been around for a while now, with many schools benefitting from in-house programs dedicated to the organization of courses. Many renowned names in the game, such as Blackboard and Google, are now offering their own cloud-based virtual classroom suites.

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Industry Khan Academy Education Coursera 227

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. After all, most professors started out believing they were destined to do scholarly work, perform research, publish results and teach in classrooms; but for most, teaching online was not what they had in mind. Sink or swim.

Online Learning 129

Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 129

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

EdSurge put that question to Engageli’s co-founder, Dan Avida, a venture capitalist who was an early board member of Coursera—the online course giant that his wife, Daphne Koller, co-founded. What types of institutions are trying the software so far? We're not going to replace the physical infrastructure of the classrooms.

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Video Coursera Software Laptops 143

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Plagiarism detection software originated at universities. And online test proctoring software has roots at universities as well. " Cop s**t supposedly brings order to the classroom by demanding compliance. Coursera founder Daphne Koller.

Blackboard 96

Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Many classroom doors have closed. With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies.

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EdTech PresenceLearning Company Trends 180

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Online classroom management, technical knowledge, video conferencing, creating online presentations, designing instructional visuals, among several other practices, are all integral to the practice of teaching virtually. Coursera, edX, Udemy, are good places to start looking for specialized teaching courses.

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How To Udemy Coursera Course 129

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. But the real change came when Rosetta Stone’s computer-assisted language software became available for download as one of the first edtech products to become a household name within the U.S.

EdTech 160

EdTech Chegg Mobility Company 160

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

We are interested in just-in-time training ( SV Academy offers sales training for new hires paid for by employers) and last-mile training ( Pathstream offers employer-branded digital skills training for software platforms) that are tied into strong job placement prospects. Tech-enabled apprenticeships and high school-to-workforce pathways.

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Training Education Learning Industry 174

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. Prices range from $12 for an online, on-demand class about quality improvement to $9,000 for an online, synchronous course teaching software engineering.

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Company Course Coursera Training 163

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. College students are turning to digital tutoring platforms like Chegg and online course providers like Coursera, both of which have performed well over the last few months.

EdTech 188

EdTech Khan Academy Chegg Coursera 188

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms. A more Amazon-like experience.

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Software Trends E-rate Coursera 104

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Oberlin College, for example, with its motto of “Learning and Labor,” requires students during each month-long “ winter term ” to pursue growth opportunities outside the traditional classroom, such as internships, research, or other projects. That may pertain to issues of crediting experiential work outside the classroom.

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Dropout Digital Badges Coursera MOOC 80

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Coursera (online education) –- $64 million. Coursera (online education) – $210.1 Is this really a trend? Would it be valuable to KPCB if it were?”

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Nowadays, 99 percent of classrooms are wired with high-speed internet (which is very different than schools being “wired”), more than half of schools have wireless capability, hundreds of school districts have 1:1 devices and the U.S. Internet ubiquity in the classroom led teachers to adopt email and experiment with other technologies.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Free lesson plans for helping teachers integrate technology into their digital classrooms. For example, Microsoft offers certification programs to professionals who wish to gain mastery of one or more of their varied software products. Tech ed resources – online classes . How to build lifelong learners .

Khan Academy 255

Khan Academy MOOC Course Software 255

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Working adults are self-directed, bring experience into the classroom and prefer learning that is practical and problem-centered. Recently, Coursera announced a modular MOOC-based bachelor’s degree with the University of North Texas, and edX is experimenting with “ MicroBachelors ” programs as pathways to degrees.

Digital Badges 186

Digital Badges Coursera Learning Industry 186

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Roblox is followed by Coursera and CampusLogic, which respectively offer online courses and financial management tools to colleges and universities. Michael Chasen, the co-founder of learning management system Blackboard, raised $16 million for a new startup, ClassEDU , that is building classroom management tools on Zoom.

EdTech 200

EdTech Coursera Company Industry 200

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Coursera (online education): $210.1 Other areas of investment for Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2018 – that is, in addition to tutoring and preschool management software: career placement software, English language learning software, and financial aid management software.

Trends 93

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. Boxed-in on campus, some universities have turned to virtual degrees to wriggle out of their tuition squeeze.

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MOOC Kaplan Coursera Report 101

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” – Thomas Friedman, 2013. The show men.

Technology 0

Technology Education Robotics System 0

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” Via the AP : “A judge ruled Friday that school districts [in Florida ] can’t hold 3rd graders back just because they score badly on a mandated standardized reading test, saying that classroom grades and teacher evaluations have to be considered.” ” More via Techcrunch. ” Accreditation and Certification.

Education 52

Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. . Something something flipped classroom something something.

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MOOC Education Coursera Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

John Bel Edwards has agreed to a mandate that cursive writing must be taught in Louisiana ’s public school classrooms.” Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.”

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

” Via the Dallas Morning News : “Professors who ban guns in their classrooms will be punished, UT lawyer says.” Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” ” But Atlschool's fouder thinks schools are gonna pay $1000 per student for some creepy software.

Education 40

Education MOOC Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Via The AP : “Police in Vermont say a 15-year-old student was cited after approaching a classroom wearing a clown mask and banging on the windows as clown sightings are viewed as potential public safety threats throughout the country.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Smartphone Explodes in Rowan College Classroom.”

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.”

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Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. ” The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow has been in trouble with Ohio about how it reports attendance. Via Edsurge : “How U of Michigan Built Automated Essay-Scoring Software to Fill ‘Feedback Gap’ for Student Writing.”

Education 46

Education Coursera MOOC Udemy 46

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” “The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model Needs an Upgrade,” says Edsurge. The discussion forum software maker has raised $2.4 ” “ Cyber Charters in at Least 5 States Face Closure.

Education 46

Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

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." ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Tagged on: March 10, 2017 Frederick County Public Schools using social media in the classroom | Your4State.com → Frederick County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Theresa Alban says that she's considering incorporating social media into the classroom. Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

We can speculate, I suppose, about what the analogous battles might be in education – which corporation will sue which corporation, claiming they “own” learning data and learning roadmaps and learning algorithms and learning software IP. And there are rules as to who gets to be in the classroom, rules about who can teach.

Education 40

Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Nevertheless, education technology continues to insist that its software and algorithms can identify students who are struggling – academically or emotionally. Students as Cheats.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. I’m not sure why Inc calls ClassDojo “Slack for Classrooms” when it’s really much more “operant conditioning and surveillance for schools.”

Education 40

Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. None of those chose for the education section are classroom educators, no surprise. Via The Washington Post : “ Facebook-backed school software shows promise – and raises privacy concerns.”

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Marquette University was justified in disciplining a professor who had publicly rebuked a graduate teaching assistant over her handling of classroom discussions of homosexuality, a state judge ruled on Thursday.” Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Yik Yak had raised $73.5

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Neither Coursera nor Udacity nor edX have become corporate training platforms , although perhaps that’s what Microsoft hopes to become, as a result of its acquisition of the professional social network LinkedIn, which had previously acquired the online training company Lynda.com.

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64