Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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MOOC Coursera Course Company 92

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

ISTE is traditionally known for its annual edtech conference, which draws as many as 15,000 people each year. And it is looking to rebrand its annual conference as well, to stress that the event is just one service offered by the group, not the main attraction.

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Conference MOOC EdTech Digital Citizenship 88

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Well, unless you count the students in MOOCs, those free online courses, which are offered through a different division of the university. Yet during that same period, another part of the university, HarvardX, has been running MOOCs, massive open online courses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Coursera, a company that hosts massive online courses and degrees, is the latest entrant among a growing number of online education providers that are entering the medical space. Doctors or nurses looking to fulfill CME credits can attend conferences, in-person classes other existing online CME courses. MOOCs, The New OPM?

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education investing. and has recently invested in companies in India, Indonesia, Jordan and South Africa. Could Moe’s SPAC acquire one of GSV Ventures’ companies? Specifically, across the ocean.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Colleges Confer Digital Diplomas Institutions including Central New Mexico Community College, Maryville University and Southern New Hampshire University are granting students digital diplomas and transcripts through the company Hyland Credentials (formerly Learning Machine).

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Mobility MOOC Libraries Report 149

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

A red carpet and a self-driving car were just a few of the things attendees saw on Tuesday at Intersect, the third annual conference put on by online learning provider Udacity. Conference attendees wait in line on a red carpet to ride in Udacity's self-driving car. But it’s not the first time the company has promoted this strategy.

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MOOC Coursera Company Learning 97

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Two years ago Davis decided to put on a conference for people making these kinds of podcasts, called Sound Education. Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype.

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MOOC Education Course Conference 113

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. That was the focus of the company for its first nine years—or “chapter one,” as Paucek described in a conference call with investors on Monday morning. To date, 2U runs 58 such programs at 36 universities.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

Well,” DeVos answered, “we are at an innovation conference, and I believe that teachers can and are innovators—and believe that we actually have to free up teachers to be able to be a lot more innovative in their own classrooms.” Betsy DeVos at SXSW EDU 2018. Sometimes government moves slowly for good reason.”

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Policies MOOC Conference Company 102

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

McKay attended the summer meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. There are laws, both state and federal, and protocols that were established long before big data and the influx of outside companies into higher education. Currently, formal rules governing what can and can’t be done with student data are murky.

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Data MOOC Conference Guidelines 122

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Every year in March the edtech world descends on Austin for SXSW EDU, a conference that’s become as much about classroom practice and implementation as entrepreneurship and tech innovation. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. 3:30 p.m.

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MOOC EdTech Company Trends 81

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week in San Francisco, the Mountain View, Calif.-based based company announced two new “nanodegree” offerings: an introductory program for self-driving cars and, yes, another one for flying cars. The company claims it has served more than 53,000 nanodegree students and 18,000 graduates.

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Robotics MOOC Company Training 63

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2023

The setting was the SXSW EDU Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas. She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Andrea Chiba, a professor of cognitive science in the program for neuroscience at the University of California at San Diego.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At high-level strategy sessions at conference tables in president’s and provost’s offices at colleges across the country, academic leaders are not commonly arguing over the pedagogical merits of constructivist theories, but are anxiously calculating how to go online without going under.

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Education MOOC Online Learning Strategy 110

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The most common of alliances, of course, are athletic conferences. One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Then yep, we’re on board.”

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Data Kaplan MOOC Trends 119

The Principal of Change

JUNE 5, 2018

As I can see so many ways that different districts deliver professional learning, I wanted to share some of the ideas that have inspired me this past summer, as well as from other conferences. I have recently seen a few conferences find rooms for people to go and reflect and collaborate and NOT attend a formal session.

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Professional Learning Learning Conference MOOC 76

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2018

Udacity helped start the whole MOOC craze several years ago, offering online courses that drew tens of thousands of students and sparking a conversation about whether these new online programs could replace college as we know it. Udacity COO Clarissa Shen.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Company/vendor: 29 percent. Conference organizer: 13 percent. See also: Research Update: K-12 Teachers Turning to MOOCs for Professional Development. Who provided the professional online learning course? Respondents named these providers: Educational institutions: 60 percent. Online community: 60 percent. Audio: 72 percent.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Martin Weller's keynote presentation at EDEN 2015 Conference was entitled 'The battle for open.' The synopsis reads: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

VCs often speak of having an “investment thesis” – a strategy for why they fund certain companies. ” This happens all the time, of course, and not just at “business of education” conferences. Who do they listen to, what stories do they hear, and what stories do they tell in turn?

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Kaplan MOOC LMS Robotics 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. Their products will make teachers’ work easier, faster, companies have always promised.

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Knewton Education Company Learning 60

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Almost all of those companies went out of business. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. The list goes on and on.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Almost all of those companies went out of business. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. The list goes on and on.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. Terry: The book, Online Distance Education - Towards a Research Agenda will be published by the time of the EDEN conference. What are your views on MOOCs? Land and S.

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Even as technology can help students, there are plenty of instances where it can also lead to dead ends: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) did not make it possible for anyone on the planet to get the equivalent of a Stanford University degree for free. And we’re just getting started. We invite you to suggest products to add here.

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MOOC Digital Learning Outcomes EdTech 60

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

Tuesday, April 14th at 11am 2015 NMC Summer Conference Preview , Join the NMC and our panel of 2015 NMC Summer Conference presenters on Tuesday, April 14th at 8am PT / 10am CT / 11am ET (check for local time). For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here. Participation is free for all attendees.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The pair then started the company in January 2013. At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. These online courses are easy to sign up for, yet few students actually stick through and finish them.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The 8th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) All Online, All Free November 13 - 16, 2017 The Global Education Conference Network's eighth annual worldwide collaboration on globally-connected education starts today, Monday, November 13, and continues through this Thursday, November 16.

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