Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. But while ClassEDU is building its education tools on Zoom, Engageli is designed to work on any web browser. million seed round for Engageli.

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Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 109

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Speakers from Newsela, New Market Venture Partners and Academic Business Advisors open up about how the lightning-fast pace of edtech development requires companies to produce evidence for schools in a shortened time frame. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And as they revise, they can see how long learners spent looking at that passage and other details about how they moved through the digital tool, since every action leaves breadcrumbs to analyze. As a result, educators have been forced to rethink how they teach using digital instructional tools and practices.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

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.

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Coursera Training MOOC Course 113

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. MOOCs were a vetting mechanism for Usman, allowing both his talent and grit to rise to attention and connecting him to an opportunity halfway around the world.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 17, 2017

The company failed to see “the writing on the wall” and failed to innovate. Now I accept this Couros tenet; the most important tool in any classroom is the mindset of the teacher. There’s no sense in advocating fifty new educational technology tools to teachers who still struggle daily with MS Word, email or printing.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

Being an Academic has allowed me to travel widely, to meet some very interesting people and to set my own research agenda. tools or user generated content tools are very exciting and I think promise to greatly enhance distance teaching and learning. Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings. NMC Summer Conference presenters are thought leaders within the education industry at colleges and universities, schools, museums, libraries, organizations, and companies. Details to join the webinar at [link]. More information here.

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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. Our brand is more akin to Alphabet than it is to Google.

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Coursera Company Course Online Learning 176

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The pair then started the company in January 2013. At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. The platform also offers collaborative tools so teams of students can work together on projects.

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Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 97

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

When Carnegie Mellon University officials announced last week that they will open up the source code on their digital tools for improving college teaching, they admitted that the tough part will be getting professors and learning centers at other colleges to actually use and improve upon them.

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Tools MOOC Software Learning 94

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. What his product does: tool to help professors build interactive online materials. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms. Young: Thank you.

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E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

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.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Presidential Campaign Politics. .”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) Do they opens the door for companies to take the lead on how students learn and how their data is used? Do they opens the door for companies to take the lead on how students learn and how their data is used?

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EdTech Student Data Privacy MOOC Policies 60

Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Via Forbes : “The Startup President: How France ’s Macron Nearly Built An EdTech Company.” ” Ed-tech: where you don’t need an actual product idea for a company, and you can incubate your neoliberalism anyway. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education Company MOOC Report 49

EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

To begin, he tells the story of working at Apple, meeting Steve Jobs, and the culture of being at Macintosh. The companies who succeed began because they want to make the world a better place. Guy then shows a number of companies that succeeded. These companies all changed the world and made meaning for the world.

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iPad MOOC Company Examples 60

Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Education Week : “How an Online Tutor Became a ‘Math Celebrity’ ” Via Edsurge : “ CSU and California Community Colleges Partner on a Tool to Find Transferable Online Courses.” Learnosity has raised $18.8

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Education Kaplan Robotics Schoology 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” Via the Phoenix New Times : “Meet the Creationist Helping to Change Arizona School Standards on Evolution.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.”

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Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 58

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Via NPR : “Meet Jin Park , The First DACA Recipient Awarded A Rhodes Scholarship.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” The company has raised $16.6

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Education MOOC Social Media E-rate 58

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.”

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Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” This is how well your district does.”

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” Shares in for-profit higher education companies were up on news of Trump’s election. Via Politico : “Meet Trump’s Cabinet-in-waiting.” ” Via AFR : “ Peter Thiel’s company Palantir Defense could win contracts under Donald Trump.”

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Education Common Core Company Facebook 54

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Masslive.com : “ Massachusetts state government announced a new partnership with an online education company on Thursday to help public employees and the state’s public universities take advantage of online classes.” ” The company in question: edX.

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Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 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.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

So I am not here to tell you, based on my analysis of ed-tech “trends,” what new tools you should buy or what new tools you should incorporate into your teaching or what old tools you should discard. ” Despite thinking of themselves as liberal-learning, today’s tech companies re-inscribe much of this.

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

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. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

.” EdWeek’s Market Brief on “Implications for K–12 Companies in Trump’s Big Proposed Cuts to Ed. “A Fumble on a Key Fafsa Tool, and a Failure to Communicate” by Susan Dynarski. . “A Fumble on a Key Fafsa Tool, and a Failure to Communicate” by Susan Dynarski.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.” Jeff Fernandez, the co-founder of the online learning company Grovo , has resigned.

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Education E-rate Kaplan Company 47

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

.” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding. ” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. ” Another (typical) NYT story : “Where Halls of Ivy Meet Silicon Dreams, a New City Rises.” The robotics company has raised $36.03

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, a federal panel, is slated to review ACCJC’s recognition and scope at a meeting next week.”

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Education Company Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Via Broadly : “ Betsy DeVos to Meet with Men’s Rights Groups , Reports Say.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “After Meeting With DeVos, Title IX Activists Say They Still Have Many Questions.” Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.”

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Education Pearson Robotics Report 45

Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

” Via The New York Times : “ Kushner ’s Family Business Received Loans After White House Meetings.” ” (I’m including this here because all of these entities – Kushner’s family, the companies he received loans from – have education investments too.).

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Education Chegg MOOC Broadband 48

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The move comes after criticism from government watchdogs who warned of financial entanglements with private companies vying for millions in GI Bill tuition.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“

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MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

.” No disclosure in the article that Edsurge shares investors with both these companies. Department of Education today announced the IRS Data Retrieval Tool is now available for borrowers applying for an income-driven repayment plan. The IRS Data Retrieval Tool will return Oct. The tutoring company has raised $244.2

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