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.

Coursera 95

Coursera Education Data Google 95

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

While online education companies offer engineering, programming and business skills, one company wants to make sure that the fine arts isn’t being left behind. based company offers 50 classes from flagship schools like Columbia and Stanford. Launched in June 2015, the Valencia, Calif. Launched in June 2015, the Valencia, Calif.-based

Coursera 60

Coursera Education Adobe MOOC 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

JUNE 18, 2017

Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. They’ve developed a keen ability to spot other education companies with the potential to capitalize on giant pools of revenue created by tiny legislative changes. billion in 2010.

Kaplan 160

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 160

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

For a lot of companies, the safest way to venture into this new world of lifelong learning and micro credentialing has been to modernize their own internal training programs and to invest in learning opportunities that expand the skills of existing employees. Employers will also need to facilitate these new models.

MOOC 54

MOOC Digital Badges Coursera Education 54

Hack Education

APRIL 16, 2018

But it’s a company. The organization has promised to spend billions in the coming decade on “personalized learning.” ” Last time I checked, “personalized learning” is an idea, and not a person; but who gets that money is still worth considering.

Kaplan 44

Kaplan Company Coursera Policies 44

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. Coursera ( $1.7B ). With this latest fundraise, the San Francisco-based company has raised $62 million in venture capital to date.

Udemy 192

Udemy Company Coursera Data 192

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.

Trends 93

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

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.

MOOC 108

MOOC OER Coursera Education 108

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. They’ll never be perfect replacements for in-person learning, but they can be ways for institutions to more effectively identify who they should offer finite resources to—things like scholarships, jobs, seats, or coaching.

MOOC 100

MOOC Course Coursera Online Learning 100

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

“I think instances of personalized learning will become more and more present in classroom settings. 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." ” Melissa Gedney. League of Innovative Schools.

Education 239

Education Coursera Common Core Trends 239

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

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.) ” From Fast Company : “Amazon’s HQ2 could eliminate 1,500 affordable housing units in NYC.”

Education 53

Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 53

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. ” “The Indiana Department of Education is seeking $4 million in damages from the company that created last year’s problem-plagued ISTEP test. ” Oh look. million total.

Education 40

Education MOOC Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. It includes all the buzzwords : competency-based education, personalized learning, and even blockchain!

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

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.” That’s despite privacy concerns about the company. The “personalized learning” company has raised $6.8

Education 46

Education Coursera MOOC Udemy 46

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.” The company has $8.3 million total.

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

But as it turned out, the zeppelin company had gone out of business – I imagine that many people, like myself, could only think about Christopher Walken and Grace Jones’ characters and opted not to go. In the meantime, these companies continue to collect a lot of “driving” data. Google versus Uber.

Education 40

Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” (Related: “Theranos investor Tim Draper blames the company’s downfall on an investigative journalist,” Business Insider reports.). ” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school company. Meanwhile on Campus… Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ U.

Education 46

Education MOOC Coursera Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). From the Coursera blog : “Building India ’s Workforce for 2020.” . “Reviving the MOOC ” – an op-ed by Stephen Downes.

MOOC 47

MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. Via The New York Times : “Tech Companies Expect Free High-Speed Internet for Poorer Americans to Pay Off Later.” The company has raised $420 million total. DESTROYED. .”

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

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. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. So Why Not in College?”

Kaplan 46

Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

” Despite thinking of themselves as liberal-learning, today’s tech companies re-inscribe much of this. “Everyone should learn to code,” as they like to tell us. What sorts of companies and what sorts of products do venture capitalists like, for example? “Disrupt.” ” And so on.

Trends 64

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

” That is, the daycare company Bright Horizons will pay for its employees to get their degrees at four institutions – three of which are for-profits (including Ashford University and Walden University, which have been targets of lawsuits claiming they misled students). to For-Profit Company Tackling School Schedules.”

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. An ex-Corinthian student is filing a federal class-action lawsuit against the firms that now own the private loans, as well as a collection company seeking to recoup the debt from borrowers.” “ Are MOOCs Forever ?”

Education 40

Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. ” Try learning styles, maybe. “ What We Learned From Talking with 100 MOOC Students ” by Justin Reich (and George Veletsianos and Laura Pasquini). month gives you a “personalized learning plan.”

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. An update on Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng’s employment status in the HR section below. ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera.

Education 52

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ DeVry Parent Company Makes Pledges to Students.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.”

Education 48

Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

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.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.” Rather Harvard has outsourced instruction to the for-profit company Trilogy Education. ” But it’s not Harvard. ”). .

Education 54

Education MOOC Report Data 54

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson.

Education 45

Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” SoFi is the ed-tech company that has raised the most venture capital. And more on who’s buying student loan companies in the “business of ed-tech” section below.

Education 48

Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Oh sure sure, this isn’t exactly education technology news, except for the part where Khosla invests in education technology companies and his wife founded the open education organization CK–12. Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. “Open.”

Education 46

Education Company Data Elsevier 46

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The “pioneer in the science of learning,” as Inside Higher Ed puts it , will help the technology company with its internal training program. Via Techcrunch : “ Sphero ’s CEO discusses the company’s shift from Star Wars to schools.” ” The company, which has raised some $107.4

Education 45

Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

Hack Education

MARCH 31, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Online education platform Coursera has set a goal of offering 15 to 20 degree programs by the end of 2019. ” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s Rick Levin on the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials.” million total.

Education 40

Education Coursera Pearson Report 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via EdSource : “Testing company fined in California for second year.” ” The testing company in question: ETS. “ Coursera ’s new monthly subscriptions could monetize procrastination,” says Techcrunch. The learn-to-code company has raised $4.34

Education 40

Education MOOC E-rate Company 40