Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But now, with much of regular schooling happening in homes, the company has seen a dramatic expansion of its audience. To date, the company has raised $55 million. In the edtech industry, venture capital flows where business grows, and that’s been the case for the San Francisco-based company.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Gale, a Cengage company, today announced the launch of Gale Presents: Udemy, a new online learning platform for public libraries – powered by Udemy for Business –that provides patrons access to over 4,000 on-demand video courses across more than 75 categories. 

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Investors who are fond of analogies and comparisons to consumer technology successes are betting on one New York City-based company to find out. There are roughly 1,000 courses available on Skillshare for free. The company’s demographics skew toward millennials, with users between age 25 and 34 making up the biggest share.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

It may not be the only publicly traded edtech company to be taken private. That led to record-setting traffic for many providers—along with a flurry of pitches from companies trying to capitalize on the moment (annoying more than a few school leaders in the process). Valuation, Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

“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. In the first half of 2020, U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. billion kudos on the platform.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. It’s an ultra-exclusive club of two dozen companies across the world, according to CB Insights. Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Industry 126

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The onus lies in finding out what skills companies are looking for in online teachers and working on having them. You should know how to operate a computer and use it to prepare and deliver the course contents to students. Conduct thorough online searches to find such courses and benefit from them.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

–MLA judge Gale Presents: Udemy (gold award) : Public libraries can connect patrons to nearly 20,000 on-demand video courses for upskilling or reskilling in business, technology, and personal development. Thousands of courses are taught by native speakers in 12 different languages, helping libraries reach their diverse communities. “We

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Libraries Udemy Industry Secondary 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

–MLA judge Gale Presents: Udemy (gold award) : Public libraries can connect patrons to nearly 20,000 on-demand video courses for upskilling or reskilling in business, technology, and personal development. Thousands of courses are taught by native speakers in 12 different languages, helping libraries reach their diverse communities. “We

Libraries 52

Libraries Udemy Industry Secondary 52

EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

The key difference in the past few years, however, has been larger funding rounds and valuations across a fewer number of EdTech companies. This distorts the total private placement numbers we see since the well-funded companies completing the larger private placements pre-IPO comprise a large portion of the overall deal volume.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 200

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2016

Of course this has enormous implications for overall employment, health benefits, and workforce and job stability. Dennis Yang, CEO of Udemy, notes that. Freelancing is on the rise, with perhaps as many as a third of American workers now engaged in some kind of freelancing work.

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Udemy Company Assessment Course 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The company’s business model calls for giving its services to schools for free but charging families for them. We woke up on a Monday and saw 10 to 15 times” the number of customers the company had served at the same time the year before, he remembered. “It Credit: Araya Diaz/Getty Images for TechCrunch. “We It was nuts.”.

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Technology Coursera Company Education 121

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The companies presented have agreed to support the latest research-based standards, and evolving global best practices in flipped learning. The companies include professional development partners: MT Groupo in Spain, IWBNET in Australia, TES in the United Kingdom and Udemy and Project Tomorrow in the United states.

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Udemy Learning Company Groups 79

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

million to Ellevation , a company focused on building the skills of English-language learners. Here’s a roundup of the past week’s activity: Udemy Acquires Talentbuddy. Udemy, a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, acquired Talentbuddy , a platform for programmers and others to acquire skills.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 18, 2016

Additionally, two coding education companies raised money. The total amount raised will be used to extend and introduce new core functionality to the Schoold app in advance of the fall college application season, the company said in a statement. ” Earlier this year, the company closed a seed round of approximately $4.5

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Udemy Secondary Company Education 40

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

All of the panelists are from companies that connect teachers directly to students. Course Hero - 80% higher Ed students. Course Hero - 80% higher Ed students. Udemy - 80% male because focuses on tech space. Can take courses in subjects not available locally. Q: Are any courses accepted by colleges?

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Udemy Education MOOC Survey 49

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. satisfaction, engagement, grades, mindsets, attitudes, persistence, views, logins, clicks, etc.

Education 60

Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

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.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Unicorns don’t exist, except as an analogy for private companies supposedly worth at least $1 billion. But Glotzbach’s point is that camels are hardy and steady—just as he hopes his company can be. Course Hero ( $1.1B Udemy ( $2B ). But as WeWork’s IPO debacle has shown, sometimes those valuations are imaginary, too.

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Udemy Company Coursera Data 191

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). Students already use YouTube, course marketplaces and other platforms to learn all sorts of things through engaging video content. A more personalized learning experience.

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LMS Gamification Learning Dropout 345

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2020

As EdSurge reporter Rebecca Koenig points out , some companies have satisfied the demands of parents and their school clients. According to EdSurge data, edtech investments over the past couple years largely favored companies with enterprise or direct-to-consumer sales strategies over those selling directly to K-12 institutions.

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EdTech PresenceLearning Udemy Company 166

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

companies reached a record $130 billion in 2020 , or up 14 percent from 2019. edtech companies that support educators and learners across preK-12, postsecondary and workforce education. edtech companies selling their services directly to consumers. A report from CB Insights showed that investments for all venture-backed U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 195

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of California lecturers'' union has stated that it will use its collective bargaining power to block the university system''s expansion of online course offerings unless the "move to distance education is done in a fair and just way for our members." What makes this newsworthy?

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

TeacherCast

MAY 4, 2019

Online Courses. Have you ever thought of organizing all of those questions into a logical scope and sequence and creating an online course on the topic? There are dozens of great platforms available where you can host your online course. Let's take a look at 7 popular options for becoming an online entrepreneur.

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Udemy Facebook Course Social Media 68

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 24, 2015

In fact, this summer I’m building out an entire series of online courses that teachers can take to learn more about educational consulting. There are companies and organizations that pay teachers to do this on a part time or full time basis for them –you just have to look online at the job openings in your area.

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How To Social Media Udemy Course 40

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Of course, media literacy is always evolving as technology and culture shift, and there's no shortage of smart frameworks that each define it slightly differently. Jump down to a section Media Literacy Courses and Curricula. You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever.

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Resources Classroom Social Media Video 80

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

And indeed, according to my calculations too, the amount of money invested in education technology companies is up from this time last year and up from this time in 2015 as well. So far this year, there have been 95 investments in ed-tech companies, totaling $1.8 And yes, I do include student loan companies here.

Coursera 57

Coursera Knewton Company Udemy 57

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The region boasts an unusual concentration of highly-valued tech startups—Domo, Qualtrics and Inside Sales are among them—along with big education companies, including Instructure, the developer of the Canvas learning management system. Missionaries also hone a valuable skill for any tech company looking to grow: communication.

Coursera 71

Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 71

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

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.” That’s despite privacy concerns about the company. million total.

Education 46

Education Coursera MOOC Udemy 46

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.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

You’ll remember Gove, of course, from his role as the former education secretary and as special friend of News Corp's Joel Klein. ” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain.

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Via EdSource : “ Cal State drops intermediate algebra as requirement to take some college-level math courses.” ” Via The New York Times : “DeVos Abandons Plan to Allow One Company to Service Federal Student Loans.” ” VR company AltSpaceVR is shutting down. ” What could possibly go wrong?

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Lots of reporting on various court filings in the Trump University case, particularly those about the company’s “ playbooks ” detailing how former employees sold its course packages, targeting vulnerable populations. I mean, other than just the thrill of repeating a new buzzword, of course.). ” Riiiiight.

Education 45

Education Sakai Udemy Report 45