Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Historically that involves bringing some form physical identification, but increasingly companies and institutions are turning to face recognition, fingerprinting and voice biometrics. The Boston-based company passed its own test of sorts today: securing a $90 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Sure, having specialized software for learning is great, but these will at least start you off on the right foot. Instant verification Online learning software allows controlling the learning process better and watching out for academic dishonesty. And, without a doubt, it has disadvantages.

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Software Classroom Coursera EdTech 195

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Silicon Valley's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress." His Wikipedia entry also fails to mention AllLearn.).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. So, seven years after the “Year of the MOOC,” we’re wondering: Where are these courses and companies today? They’ve rolled out bundles of courses called ‘Specializations’ or ‘Nanodegrees.’

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MOOC Coursera Course Trends 139

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A Need for More Strategic Online-Learning Capacity Following the sudden move to online and remote learning across all of American higher education last spring, many community colleges will be operating online this fall. One example is Calbright , the new online community college in California.

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 213

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 124

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. But it’s not the first time the company has promoted this strategy. Udacity focuses on industry,” Thrun said. Udacity's self-driving car.

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MOOC Coursera Company Learning 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Udacity, an online-learning platform , helps you learn the latest in deep learning, machine learning, and web development—and promises it will help you qualify for your dream career. Online providers, on the other hand, lack the intense learning environment and clear pathways into a job, Craig argues.

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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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Coursera Training MOOC Course 119

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

For more than 15 years, a group of companies known as Online Program Management providers, or OPMs, have been helping colleges build online degree programs. But it turns out, to my surprise, that it hasn’t been a very profitable model for the companies. It’s an OPM paradox — as companies lose money, colleges make it.

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Coursera Education Pearson Company 117

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

More than 70 percent of such companies have been offering products and services to schools and colleges free or at steep discounts this semester, anticipating sales later, according to the consulting firm Productive. Coursera is providing 550 colleges and universities with free access to its online courses.

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Tools Coursera Course Survey 119

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Those were a couple of the questions debated at #DLNchat on Tuesday, October 9, when we discussed how nontraditional education providers could influence the future of digital learning. Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy.

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Digital Learning MOOC Education Learning 113

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 3, 2016

A recent move by a leading United Kingdom learning platform to issue academic credits toward a degree for students who complete open online courses could signal a forthcoming trend in the U.S. The company is partnering with nine higher education institutions in the venture, said Matt Walton, head of product for FutureLearn.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Click PLAY or use the download button to listen later, and hear additional anecdotes and examples: ?. Sponsored by Defined Learning. Here are some examples of limiting beliefs in academic settings: “Remote teaching during a pandemic is pointless. Students are not really learning!”. Why do educators’ beliefs matter?

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How To Exercises Outcomes Coursera 79

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Click PLAY or use the download button to listen later, and hear additional anecdotes and examples: ?. Sponsored by Defined Learning. Here are some examples of limiting beliefs in academic settings: “Remote teaching during a pandemic is pointless. Students are not really learning!”. Why do educators’ beliefs matter?

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How To Exercises Outcomes Coursera 78

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Technology alone won’t give us these solutions. It never does.

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MOOC Education Coursera Course 191

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. What if online learning could be a way to help us more effectively figure out who we should invest in?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

In 2015, I hope more schools give students the opportunity to approach learning as a process of growth and exploration and, truly take ownership of their education." “In 2015, I think school districts, ed-tech companies, and researchers will emphasize the student as a key element of learning. " Sara Schapiro.

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Education Coursera Common Core Trends 239

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. ” Via The Washington Post : “ Justice Department is investigating whether a for-profit college company violated federal financial aid rules.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Without revenue the company will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” ” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. ” Try learning styles, maybe. Steve Dembo recently announced that he’s leaving the company after 10+ years. Priorities.

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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. ” Last year , the Ugandan government decreed that company’s schools be shut down because they failed to meet education and sanitation requirements; Kenyan courts have also ordered the schools to close.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” ” The provider in question is Coursera , which has raised some $146.1 ” “What’s the bottom line on online preschool ? ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. ” Via Education Week : “For Online Schools , Unique Challenges in Serving Transgender Students.”

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Udacity’s CMO Shernaz Daver left that company.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” The Kenyan Ministry of Education says that the Bridge International Academies are not complying with the country’s laws, and the company, which runs chains of schools across the developing world, has not received approval for its curriculum. for-profits? ” Education in the Courts. “What if the US had an OU?”

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46