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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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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" (If this were a literature class, I would tie this attitude to the Italian Futurists and to fascism, but that’s a presentation for another day.). Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. What kind of company culture sanctions that? In technology, all that matters is tomorrow."

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The platform could pair them up for projects, and students would end the project with a presentation of their findings and work to companies in exchange for course credit. “It The new round of funding will help Riipen hire more sales and marketing staffers to grow the company’s presence in the U.S., office in 2020.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

The new nature of remote work has presented challenges to all employees. 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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” NewView Capital also contributed $30 million in what’s known as an employee tender offer, a process in which NewView purchased company shares held by Course Hero employees. Another U.S. The valuation—$1.1

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. To date, the San Francisco-based company has raised about $140 million. That’s what happened to the likes of Coursera, NovoEd and Udacity.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Online classroom management, technical knowledge, video conferencing, creating online presentations, designing instructional visuals, among several other practices, are all integral to the practice of teaching virtually. The onus lies in finding out what skills companies are looking for in online teachers and working on having them.

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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. That presents both an opportunity and a challenge.

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

The following are a few examples of learning resources that are available for ongoing education outside of high school and university: Certification Programs – Certification programs are typically training programs that are offered by tech companies or other organizations outside of traditional academia.

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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

MAY 7, 2018

While there are high-profile examples of companies enhancing their tuition assistance benefits—such as the Starbucks deal with Arizona State or Chipotle’s work with Guild Education —that is not the norm (even though it represents a trend worth watching). But wait, didn’t companies say they see talent as a top priority?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

These early MOOCs didn’t quite work—or at least they didn’t work well enough to present any real threat to the mainstream providers of traditional, campus-based higher education. But the pandemic has now forced this change; forced the entire landscape of higher education to embrace the technologies of online learning.

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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. Explore and enjoy! For Online Courses/Blended Learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The teams—including LiveStories—presented their solutions at a White House event. Twenty-two non-governmental organizations and seven student teams participated in the Opportunity Project. They were asked to develop solutions for problem statements put forth by several federal agencies.

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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. That virtuous snowball can extend even further, presenting opportunities for exciting new models to emerge in higher education. For instance, as much as virtual spaces (remember Myspace?)

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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.

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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.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Via Forbes : “This Company Could Be Your Next Teacher: Coursera Plots A Massive Future For Online Education.” “How a 5-Decade Old Education Company Reinvented Itself” – Edsurge interviews the CEO of the company formerly known as Curriculum Associates. The robot presents as a black female?

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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. Rather it’s a history itself – ideally one that’s useful for our thinking about the past, present, and future in the way in which the study of history always should be. “Disrupt.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” Via Campus Technology : “ Coursera ’s CEO on the Evolving Meaning of ‘MOOC’ ” There’s more ECOT news – there’s always more ECOT news – in the “state and local politics” section above. .’” The textbook company has raised $6 million total.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Steve Dembo recently announced that he’s leaving the company after 10+ years. One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. ” Try learning styles, maybe. Updates from ISTE.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

According to an investigation by The Associated Press , “dozens of those hired by the company had checkered pasts – including serious financial problems and even convictions for cocaine trafficking or child molestation.” million from the company between 2010 and 2015 before he stepped down from his role there.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

This talk was presented at The University of Edinburgh's Moray House School of Education. 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. Let me begin with a story.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

This talk was presented today at ETUG 's Fall Workshop in Vancouver, BC. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.”

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

“I think instances of personalized learning will become more and more present in classroom settings. “In 2015, I think school districts, ed-tech companies, and researchers will emphasize the student as a key element of learning. ” Melissa Gedney. League of Innovative Schools. " Sara Schapiro. ” Paul Nauert.

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