Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Blogs of EdTech Companies You won’t find any academic research, lesson plans, or hot education news on these websites.

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Software Classroom Coursera EdTech 195

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Online teachers have to perform their job and meet the needs of their students virtually.That being the case, success in online teaching requires a slightly different set of skills besides the mainstream teaching skills. The onus lies in finding out what skills companies are looking for in online teachers and working on having them.

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How To Udemy Coursera Course 129

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses.

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MOOC Coursera Course Trends 99

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. Increasingly, MOOCs are being packaged into series of courses with a non-degree credential being offered to those who successfully complete the series.

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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. EdSurge: Your new company is building a video platform for online teaching. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

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Wired Campus

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Some of the biggest MOOC producers, including Daphne Koller’s Coursera, may have figured out how to get employers to accept free online courses as credentials: Get big-name companies to help design them. She says it also lets Coursera play a role in “bridging the gap” between higher education and industry.

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MOOC Coursera Meeting Google 28

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

SAN DIEGO – Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Morehouse College offered fewer than nine online courses. Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses.

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Education Coursera Trends Online Learning 123

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. At least 75 such partnerships exist between colleges and three of the country’s top boot camp provider companies: edX, ThriveDX and Fullstack Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

And students in a musicology course at Virginia Tech were assigned to create TikTok videos. Undergraduates already seemed lukewarm toward virtual higher education; only about 20 percent took even one online course in the fall of 2018, the consulting firm Eduventures estimates.

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Tools Coursera Course Survey 116

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Early reports indicate that many blue-chip companies have begun to freeze or rescind hiring offers to graduating students. Consistent with past recessions, many companies are being forced to cut or freeze benefits such as 401(k) contributions. In addition, internships are being canceled.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

The postsecondary education sector is on a collision course with the world of work. While there are high-profile examples of companies enhancing their tuition assistance benefits—such as the Starbucks deal with Arizona State or Chipotle’s work with Guild Education —that is not the norm (even though it represents a trend worth watching).

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Education Company Coursera Policies 112

Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

Yale University is creating a master’s program that will hold many courses online, continuing the Ivy League institution’s foray into “blended” learning. Students would meet in virtual classrooms where they would discuss course material using videoconferencing technology. Distance Education Online Courses'

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Parents never show up to meetings and events. As educators, holding limiting beliefs is doubly damaging because not only do they hinder us from setting and achieving our own goals, they hold students back from meeting their goals and reaching their potential. Continue reading for suggestions on how to correct your course!

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How To Exercises Outcomes Coursera 79

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Parents never show up to meetings and events. As educators, holding limiting beliefs is doubly damaging because not only do they hinder us from setting and achieving our own goals, they hold students back from meeting their goals and reaching their potential. Continue reading for suggestions on how to correct your course!

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How To Exercises Outcomes Coursera 78

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This summer yielded a surprising announcement in the world of online education: that edX, founded by Harvard University and MIT a decade ago as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online education providers, had agreed to sell its operations to a for-profit company, 2U. Universities that paid into Coursera were paying fees to a vendor.

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Coursera Company Course Online Learning 178

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

Coursera is quietly testing elements of a new strategy, with the goal of moving from a platform for courses to a broader career-building service. It’s part of a continued evolution of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. But the company recently added a feature that asks users: “What’s your main goal?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. In those days the platform was called Venture Lab, and 78,000 students from 150 countries signed up for its first course, which was on technology entrepreneurship.

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Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 99

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. While these online courses have seen massive enrollment, perspectives on their impact have been decidedly mixed. Who else do you imagine taking this course?

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MOOC OER Coursera Education 106

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. of people who enroll in one of their open online courses earn a certificate. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Meet the New Mega-University.” More from Edsurge.

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Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. – over accusations about abusive lending practices,” as The Chronicle of Higher Education notes. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

. “In a sweeping move, the for-profit school chain has been told to lock its doors after parliament demanded it halt operations in response to its failure to meet educational and infrastructure standards.” Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via The New York Times : New York governor “ Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons.” Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ’s CTO, Brian Pinkerton , is leaving the company.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. University joins growing number of institutions opting to outsource online course development on fee-for-service basis.” Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” million total.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." He anticipates needing to purchase around 2,000 to meet that goal.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

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. ” The company in question: edX. ” The company in question: edX. ” More on the course and the university’s decision via Inside Higher Ed.

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Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Handing over data, often quite thoughtlessly, has become par for the course – in education and in society more generally. ” From April: “ U.S.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a look back at what’s happened over the course of each year, not simply – to counter that totally overused phrase from hockey player Wayne Gretsky’s dad – to “skate to where the puck is going,” but to examine where it has been. .” “Disrupt.” ” “Unbundle.”

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.) The Flipped Classroom".

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

According to an investigation by The Associated Press , “dozens of those hired by the company had checkered pasts – including serious financial problems and even convictions for cocaine trafficking or child molestation.” He didn’t win, of course; he settled the lawsuit.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” EdWeek’s Market Brief on “Implications for K–12 Companies in Trump’s Big Proposed Cuts to Ed. ” This includes, of course, billionaire Betsy DeVos. The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles DeVry : “A For-Profit-College Company Embraces Its Technology-Focused Past and Its Evolving Future.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. An update on Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng’s employment status in the HR section below. The founder, of course, has a degree from an Ivy League school.

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