Company MOOC Reference Survey 
Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings.
Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2019
Perhaps the biggest buzz was the $750-million purchase of Trilogy Education Services, an education company that helps set up and run short-term coding programs at university extension schools, by 2U, one of the biggest companies helping colleges set up online grad programs. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad?
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Bryan Alexander
MARCH 5, 2016
He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take. Providers are growing more features, each company or project following or leapfrogging the others. Casey answered by referring to what metaphors of change tell us about our attitudes. A: CCP continues to evolve, complementing the EDUCAUSE Core Data Survey.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. The quotation is from 2012. Fantasy. .”
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. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.
Hack Education
AUGUST 4, 2018
.” Sandler is also the founder of the ed-tech company Nibletz. ” I’m putting this story here as it discusses VCs’ willingness to continue to invest in Mike Cagney , the former head of the student loan company SoFi. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” JFC.
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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