Company MOOC Presentation Report 
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?
Edsurge
MARCH 3, 2021
Some of it has already been invested in startups including Class Technologies, which is building an instructional video platform on Zoom; Guild Education, which works with companies to provide educational opportunities to their employees; and Photomath, an app that shows students how to solve math problems, step by step, just by taking a picture.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The effort, run by the nonprofit Credential Engine, marked its half-decade this week with a virtual convening to describe its latest research report and a reception in Washington, D.C., As an afternoon of Zoom presentations gave way to an evening of conversations over cocktails, the purpose and potential of all that tallying came into focus.
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.” That presents both an opportunity and a challenge. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?
Edsurge
AUGUST 19, 2019
More than half of the accelerator’s current education companies offer ISAs to attract students to their services. We are seeing these spread around the world.” (Here’s who presented in 2019’s first cohort.) The accelerator provides companies with $150,000 in seed funding for 7 percent of the company.
Edsurge
MARCH 29, 2017
As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. These efforts are not cheap.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. Even in more normal times, Newkirk’s overall strategy has limitations.
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