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.
Edsurge
APRIL 3, 2018
The online learning industry has driven itself into a corner that is tricky to get out of, and much of that stems from initially offering the majority of digital content for free. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.
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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. Newkirk believes that his model will work for other STEM fields, including chemistry and physics.
Edsurge
MAY 31, 2022
Responding to some of EdSurge’s coverage in the Biz newsletter, Atin Batra, founder and general partner at 27 Ventures, an early investor in companies like the livestream tutoring platform Fiveable , wanted to offer an alternative perspective. Companies are down an average 30-50 percent from their 52-week highs. Just in the U.S.,
Edsurge
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.
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. Hossein Rahnama is a recognized figure in ubiquitous computing and is the founder and chief executive officer of Flybits , a context-as-a-service company, with offices in Toronto and Palo Alto.
EdTechTeacher
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
In fact, if you Google “rainbow starburst bracelet” and the official video from the company has been viewed a fraction of the times. As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. However, in the last few years, higher education has listened to the world of MOOCs and started changing.
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