Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

News that Arizona State University and edX have archived 10 of their 14 Global Freshman Academy courses raises questions about the viability and purpose of credit-eligible MOOCs. She suggests that first-year students may need more academic and social supports and wraparound services than a la carte MOOCs provide.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee. So the rate at which new users are coming into the MOOC space is decreasing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? What role should employers have in the design or execution of digital learning opportunities? I honestly see accreditation becoming less important as digital education takes over.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

“A key to growing as an educator is to keep company mainly with educators who uplift You, whose presence inspire You and whose dedication drives You.” Now you need to take time for yourself and go on some learning adventures of your own! ” – Robert John Meehan.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Coursera, a company that hosts massive online courses and degrees, is the latest entrant among a growing number of online education providers that are entering the medical space. But this field has recently grabbed the attention of an array of online education providers and program managers. Today, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say. Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There’s a budding field called the science of teaching and learning, where scholars are figuring out what works when it comes to educating students. A new book, “ Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education ,” looks at how to create systems that apply the science of learning into actual teaching.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

The company also uses a customizable assignments generator that it acquired, for an undisclosed amount, from a Bulgarian startup in 2019. Still, completion rates among people who have paid for a Coursera course hover around 50 percent, according to figures shared by the company. But learning online remains a hard nut to crack.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Some education experts have already penned that the vote is likely to pass , potentially raising the cost of accessing learning and student-success tools, prioritizing commercial and entertainment traffic over education and research, and slowing the pace of research and innovation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. So much so that one professor thinks that higher ed should probably be nervous—or at least that colleges should try to learn something from these well-funded efforts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. But at a university? “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But you might not realize how many educational podcasts are out there. By educational, we mean shows that focus on some super-focused topic, like a specific period of history or an academic discipline. You’re not getting really wealthy or even famous through educational audio. It's well-known that podcasting is huge these days.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. That was the focus of the company for its first nine years—or “chapter one,” as Paucek described in a conference call with investors on Monday morning. To date, 2U runs 58 such programs at 36 universities.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We talked with high-profile education and tech leaders—including Cory Doctorow, Angela Duckworth and writer John McPhee. And we also mulled over thorny emerging issues, such as the role social media plays in designing our lives, and concerns about the corporatization of education. MOOCs are No Longer Massive.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

education technology company in 2020. To close out the week, another higher-education company secured a nine-figure fundraise. Previous investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared also participated. based company an estimated $2.5 billion valuation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

based online education provider is faring as it prepares to go public. That comes from over 77 million registered learners, along with more than 2,000 businesses (including 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies) and 100 government agencies that paid for its enterprise offerings. Coursera reported $293.5

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

We know that education technology is a swiftly growing field. Here we are talking about virtual campus management solutions or online learning management solutions that can essentially digitize the teaching-learning. Parents and students are looking at education differently than ever before.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 30, 2016

There you can find his thoughts on the intersection of education and technology, with a strong helping of culture high and low. At the University of Mary Washington Jim inspired the edupunk movement, and then invented and taught the famous digital storytelling counter-MOOC DS106.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It’s a real mixed bag, but this year the conference is putting a big emphasis on equity and diversity as well as employability, the implications of artificial intelligence and international education, separating sessions into 25 distinct tracks. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Look at Me!”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. But they are not done with higher education yet. Child is disengaged.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Udacity is one of the few edtech companies to gain “unicorn” status, meaning it is valued by investors at over $1 billion. Is the company a new kind of (unaccredited) university? These days the company does a little bit of all those things, but it doesn’t fit neatly into any of the categories. A publisher? We’re not a publisher.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. I’ve always thought of the U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Ten years ago when two Stanford professors started Coursera , many of the big-name colleges the company partnered with offered few online courses. And these days it has grown into a public company flush with funds from its recent IPO. Meanwhile Coursera is eager to offer more degree programs as well.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. to 11:00 p.m. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Edtech companies use these buzzwords to describe the next generation of learning tools. We assume that granting learners access to education technology outside the classroom to be used on their own time is unequivocally positive. You might be tempted to give an edtech product to educators and say “use this however you want!”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

We started EdSurge in 2011 by focusing on K-12 education. This past March, we began broadening our coverage to include education beyond high school. EdSurge is all about exploring one fundamental question: How can learning be supported by technology? The jobs of the future will demand a highly educated workforce.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

The demand for innovative digital learning technology has never been higher. But companies looking to differentiate themselves in this increasingly competitive sector have to bring something new to the table. The Boston-based company today announced the close of a $7.5 Both carry decades of educational experience.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The fall semester of 2020 is like nothing we have seen before in higher education. Many students have chosen to defer or to forego their education completely. 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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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. But there are many critics of the deal.

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Wired Campus

JUNE 5, 2015

In June 2014, amid growing concern that outside companies were exerting too much influence on the branding and shaping of universities’ online course offerings, four institutions — Colorado State University, Indiana University, the University of Florida, and the University of Michigan — teamed up to form a member-owned consortium they called Unizin.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

In this conversation with EdSurge’s Betsy Corcoran, Paucek talks about the business of delivering digital education--and just what the role of the CEO involves. The conversation is part of our Thought Leader Interview series on the future of education, recorded live at the ASU+GSV Summit. What's going on? You're kidding me!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It shows no signs of stopping as learners become more involved in their own education. Gone are the days when the organization dictated what should be learned and how. Learners are now demanding that they are educated in a way that works for them. More and more, learners are advocating for themselves in this respect.

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