Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

Some of it has already been invested in startups including Class Technologies, which is building an instructional video platform on Zoom; Guild Education, which works with companies to provide educational opportunities to their employees; and Photomath, an app that shows students how to solve math problems, step by step, just by taking a picture.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

As it turns out, the company wasn’t done fundraising. A combination of “market volatility” and “increased demand for help with remote learning led to a great opportunity to set ourselves up to raise more capital,” Grauer adds. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. More broadly, it is an era of surging demand for online postsecondary learning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Read on to learn more. As such, online teachers and students can be in any location in the world and still be able to interact and have a wholesome learning process. The onus lies in finding out what skills companies are looking for in online teachers and working on having them. What is Online Teaching?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Just outside the walls of the ivory tower, a transformation is underway in the world of corporate learning, and those of us at colleges and universities should pay attention. Corporate learning and development, often referred to as L&D, is radically different than just a few years ago. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. It proves that there is appetite among investors for helping education companies serving the European market.” Others are building language-learning apps and toys that teach kids STEM concepts. In the U.S., As in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). Fileris goes even further and re-shoots his videos.

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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. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Despite their often limited budgets, the innovative nature and adaptability of community colleges makes them well-positioned to meet the training needs for aspiring tech professionals. This focus on regional economies has the reinforcing effect of creating more pathways to academic credit and jobs for learners who complete the certificate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Yet as the virus forced learning online, the private, historically black college for men in Atlanta quickly changed course – and now offers entire degrees online, including a full-time option and classes for those who dropped out and want to finish. Morehouse professors spent the summer learning to teach online. “As

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Education Coursera Trends Online Learning 123

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. to develop a series of surveys to embed in their MicroMasters programs and in a Coursera Specialization. It’s true they stopped making headlines a while ago, but they have hardly abated.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

And the ecosystem to support professional and lifelong learning is growing to include a host of options, ranging from employers themselves to start-up providers, as well as colleges and universities. Professionals understand that we are in a job market that demands lifelong learning. The share of U.S. There is a paradox here.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming in the Bay Area. 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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. This dichotomy is not lost on investors.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s important to recognize that this crisis will likely only accelerate the march of automation and the adoption of various labor-replacing technologies, including machine learning and AI. Early reports indicate that many blue-chip companies have begun to freeze or rescind hiring offers to graduating students.

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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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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. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“Online education is using digital technologies to transform the learning experience. What we are talking about when we talk about online education is using digital technologies to transform the learning experience,” said Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. That is not what is happening right now.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

After learning about the myth of meritocracy, the racist nature of high stakes testing cultures, and the unrelenting racial segregation of inner city schools, I began to feel like a hamster on a wheel. . Parents never show up to meetings and events. Sponsored by Defined Learning. Students are not really learning!”.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

After learning about the myth of meritocracy, the racist nature of high stakes testing cultures, and the unrelenting racial segregation of inner city schools, I began to feel like a hamster on a wheel. . Parents never show up to meetings and events. Sponsored by Defined Learning. Students are not really learning!”.

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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.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. The pair then started the company in January 2013. The company also still works with about a dozen universities that use NovoEd to deliver online continuing-education programs.

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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. Two Stanford University professors founded Coursera about five years ago, amid a wave of hype that free online courses could one day replace residential undergraduate colleges.

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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. Wiley: Twenty years ago, nobody believed there’d be any kind of sizeable, sustainable movement around people sharing openly licensed, effective learning content.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. Usman accepted and has been living in west Africa for the last year working as the Program Lead for Code for Sierra Leone , helping young people across the country learn to code. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “Why Young Pakistanis Are Learning Chinese.” 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.) ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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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.” For-profit higher ed company Education Management Corp says it will close 22 out of 26 of its Brown Mackie College locations.

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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.” ” Oh look.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” Via The New York Times : “ Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students.” That’s despite privacy concerns about the company.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

" Tagged on: March 10, 2017 Drop it like it's bot: Brands have cooled on chatbots | Digiday → Many companies have begun dropping their bots, saying that they don't do what they were supposed to: “I would call it overpromising." He anticipates needing to purchase around 2,000 to meet that goal.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” “ State educational technology directors have outlined ambitious targets for increasing school bandwidth capacity in an effort to support digital learning and bridge the technology divide that exists in schools and in students’ homes,” says Education Week. ” The company in question: edX.

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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. ” “ 14 Reasons Why Pokémon Go Is The Future Of Learning.” An underlying assumption is that learning can be measured and is an effect of instruction.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” Via the Journal & Courier : “Legislation that set the stage for Purdue's dive into online higher ed also exempts ‘New U’ from state’s open meetings, public records laws.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

This talk was presented at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. ” We can see in Reagan’s pledge the roots of ongoing efforts to defund public education, something that enabled for-profit schools to step in to meet the demand for college. “Disrupt.”

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