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.”.

Technology 122

Technology Coursera Company Education 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Online learning—often touted as an up-and-coming way of delivering education—took its place on the world stage as the de facto model, regardless of how prepared students, employees and educators were for the experience. In a SHRM survey, 68 percent of respondents reported sustaining their training budget through the pandemic.

Training 171

Training Education Learning Industry 171

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Massive open online course providers gained momentum and attention by claiming to offer a free alternative to traditional degrees. How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. Here’s a look at how the education company is responding. In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3

MOOC 119

MOOC Coursera Chegg Pearson 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” One example is Calbright , the new online community college in California. Better state-level coordination could also help.

Digital Badges 212

Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 212

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

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. This move to online learning is here to stay. Related: Colleges and universities are outsourcing services to for-profit companies.

Education 124

Education Coursera Trends Online Learning 124

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.

Coursera 115

Coursera Training MOOC Course 115

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

In a separate poll of 14,000 college and graduate students in early April by the website niche.com, which rates schools and colleges, 67 percent said they didn’t find online classes as effective as in-person ones. Related: How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people? That really is the difference-maker.

Tools 117

Tools Coursera Course Survey 117

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.

Coursera 133

Coursera Education Pearson Company 133

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. 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. NovoEd raised $4.8

Online Learning 100

Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 100

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 187

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. reported that only 5.5% of people who enroll in one of their open online courses earn a certificate. who these 5.5%

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MOOC Course Coursera Online Learning 100

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2019

When executives at tech giants Salesforce and Microsoft decided in fall 2017 to turn to an online education platform to help train potential users of products for their vendors, they turned to Pierre Dubuc and his team in fall 2017. Two years later, Dubuc’s company, OpenClassrooms , has closed deals with both of them.

MOOC 140

MOOC Coursera Microsoft Industry 140

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In response to an inquiry for our study, education benefits management company Guild Education reported a 149 percent increase in applications for certificate programs over the course of the pandemic.

Learning 172

Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 172

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” More on the report from Pacific Standard. ” “ Turkey has reacted angrily to suggestions that it might tone down its attack on Saudi Arabia over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi if the United States agrees to extradite an opponent of President Erdogan,” The Times reports. on Coursera.”

Education 53

Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 53

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.” Government Accountability Office said in a report Wednesday.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). .”

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology.

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

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.

Kaplan 46

Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’,” The Atlantic’s Adam Harris reports from the Turning Point USA ’s conference. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

. “Ten more states sued the federal government on Friday over a directive to public schools on bathroom use by transgender students , adding their objections to those of 11 states that brought a lawsuit soon after the directive was released in May,” The New York Times reports. Via The Wall Street Journal : “ U.S.

Education 40

Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. State and Local) Education Politics. Via Reuters : “U.S.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” ” “ Kansas lawmakers, trying to head off a court shutdown of the state’s public schools, have increased aid to poor districts by $38 million,” NPR reports. Public Schools,” WAMU reports on the surprise news. Priorities.

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. Without revenue the company will go away.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy "DeVos says Trump education budget ‘places power in the hands of parents and families’," Michigan Live reports. ” EdWeek’s Market Brief on “Implications for K–12 Companies in Trump’s Big Proposed Cuts to Ed. ” An Education Dept.

Education 46

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 The Hechinger Report.

Education 45

Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Senate ’s education committee on a party-line vote Wednesday advanced the nomination of Carlos Muñiz for general counsel at the Department of Education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via The Hechinger Report : “ India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy.”

Education 48

Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Did you share this Raw Story story – “Education officials expect ‘ineffective’ Betsy DeVos to step down as her agenda collapses: report” – or this Salon story – “Expert: Expect DeVos to resign from Trump administration”? ” “Whatever happened to the promise of online learning ?”

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

.” Five years after “ the year of the MOOC ,” the acronym does not appear on the website of any of those high profile online course providers. For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” The Hechinger Report asks , “What can Betsy DeVos really do?” Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” Via the BBC : “ Facebook Reports BBC to Police Over Investigation Into Child Sex Images.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” I mean… In other Arne news, Chalkbeat also reports that “‘I think that’s blood money’: Arne Duncan pushed charters to reject funds from Trump admin if budget cuts approved.” ” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports.

Khan Academy 46

Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

As competition increases, institutions report mixed results with the model.” “ White House to Propose Merging Education , Labor Departments ,” The Wall Street Journal reports. ” Via the Journal Sentinel : “More than 300 Kettle Moraine parents sign petition against online learning platform.”

Education 44

Education Microsoft MOOC Coursera 44

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Hechinger Report : “Documenting Maine ’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.” The suit charged the university with failing to prevent sexual abuse by George Tyndall , formerly a gynecologist in the university’s health center, and for failing to take action as reports of the abuse surfaced.”

Education 60

Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

But as Education Week reports , “States Bristle as DeVos Ed. ” Inside Higher Ed reports that “The Republican budget resolution envisions more than $236 billion in cuts to mandatory spending for education programs over 10 years.” ” Protestors were outside the meeting in force. Critiques Their ESSA Plans.”

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“ Trump Education Secretary Pick Has Indirect Stake in Student Lender ,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “Obama Administration Mistakes Threaten Student Loan Relief Programs,” Buzzfeed reports. now ranks near the bottom among 35 industrialized nations in math,” The Hechinger Report frets.

Education 40

Education Report E-rate Company 40