The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. Student enrollment is failing to rebound to pre-pandemic levels. And traditional public schools are facing increased competition from charter schools and independent schools.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Andrew Ng, Stanford University computer science professor, is the co-founder of Coursera, a for-profit company that partners with colleges and universities to provide free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). It''s hard to believe that the company only started up in April! Who can take a Coursera course? Coursera MOOC'

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials. Earlier this year Harvard and MIT and the other creators of edX agreed to sell their nonprofit MOOC platform to a for-profit company, 2U. And it's an opportune time to rethink open courses.

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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. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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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. From the forms the company filed with the SEC last month, we learned the company conducted a study to evaluate Duolingo’s effectiveness versus traditional university language courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

And Coursera, the venture-backed startup that also works with colleges to develop online courses, says it has added 50 new “specializations” (series of courses that add up to a noncredit certificate) in the past year. One such company, ExtensionEngine, urges colleges to go through a “mindset shift” when thinking of new degrees online.

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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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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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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

The colleges and companies offering MOOCs can be pretty guarded these days about releasing specific numbers on how many people enroll or pay for a “verified certificate” or microcredential showing they took the course. But both Coursera and EdX, two of the largest providers, do release lists of their most popular courses.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. What kind of company culture sanctions that?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In a world where the largest software vendors like Apple and Google don’t write the apps, we are at a tipping point as the worldwide gap widens between skills delivered by the current educational systems and those required by the digital economy. Distance reduction allow companies to compete worldwide.

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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. What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For the third time this year, an American education technology company is laying claim to the magical “unicorn” status. To date, company has raised $138 million. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

We interviewed a number of leaders and decision-makers in the space, including heads of learning and development, workforce strategists, and executives and corporate development teams of public and private education companies. Employees are also demanding a greater variety of resources, and companies are responding.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

EverFi is a rare breed of education technology company that can boast a wide reach. Last summer, the company held its retreat at a Native American reservation in Montana, where a team had been introducing its financial education offerings. Making this model work, Wincup says, is one of the company’s “trade secrets.to

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Now, MOOC providers like edX and Coursera are looking towards new (and sometimes paid) offerings, as well as so-called “MicroBachelors” degrees designed to break up undergraduate credential into discrete components. How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

In 2018 we witnessed a clash of titans as government and tech companies collided on privacy issues around collecting, culling and using personal data. Companies will face increased pressure about the data AI-embedded services use. More companies will make AI a strategic initiative in corporate social responsibility.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Now, only four Global Freshman Academy classes remain active, and ASU is shifting its focus to Earned Admission, a program designed to help transfer students and employees at Starbucks and other partner companies qualify for admission to the university by passing online classes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it. The colleges create course videos and assignments that are offered on the company’s platform for free—and students can pay for a certificate showing completion. How’s that going?

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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. ” Mr.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Amid the futuristic glitz and glamour, the company announced plans to roll out a new set of short-term series of online courses, called Nanodegrees, all in part of the company’s growing push towards jobs-training. But it’s not the first time the company has promoted this strategy. Udacity focuses on industry,” Thrun said.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

At Google, one of us works as a product lead for the IT Support Professional Certificate on Coursera—a program designed to take beginner-level learners to IT job readiness in about eight months. The program is philanthropically funded by Google.org, and does not generate any revenue to Google.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. billion—does not account for companies whose primary product and service focus on student loan refinancing. edtech companies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

Meanwhile, a major provider of free online educational resources for those learning to code announced new paid options that company leaders hope will make its business sustainable. The company claims 45 million people have registered to use its free materials. The company has raised $42.5 million since it started in 2011.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

There are a lot of companies limiting out a lot of talent. The Google campus in Mountain View, California. The company is one of many that’s dropping bachelor’s degree requirements for certain jobs. It means a lot,” Groom said of Hogan’s announcement. You can have a degree and not have the knowledge and skill sets.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Related: Colleges and universities are outsourcing services to for-profit companies. The conversations we are having at the highest level at the best universities in the world are all about digital transformation,” said Chip Paucek CEO and founder of 2U , the for-profit ed tech company that recently merged with EdX.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

One in five employers report that they have hired someone with a verified certificate from a platform such as Coursera or EdX. In fact, the boom in microcredentials is being fed in large part by major companies—IBM, Google, and Amazon, to name a few—looking to grow their talent pipeline and increase the skill level of current employees.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Coursera is known to work with both K-12 and higher education institutions and provide them with access to online courses. Coursera is known to work with both K-12 and higher education institutions and provide them with access to online courses. This tool could replace Google in K-12 classroom. Google Knowledge Graph.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

On the talent-acquisition side of the equation, demand—especially in the technology field–is so great that firms such as IBM , Google , Microsoft , Hubspot and a host of others are providing their own public-facing education and credentials. But wait, didn’t companies say they see talent as a top priority? The share of U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Even Coursera, which has historically partnered with universities, jumped on the employer bandwagon, announcing a new content partnership with Google this year. Our best chance at building educational models that prepare students for the future is to combine the best of university learning with bursts of career-focused training.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D. Or must they take a leave of absence?

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