Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

That scenario is one reason that a group of nine universities, led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, today announced a collaboration to build a system that would let institutions issue digital diplomas and credentials in a way that can be verified without needing to check with a human registrar.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

And that’s forcing companies and colleges around the globe to reevaluate their data policies and practices. The law also requires that companies get explicit consent from users before sharing data, and includes many other data protections as well. MOOC-provider Coursera, for example, claims to have 6.5 institution.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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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

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

JANUARY 5, 2022

Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 Is a Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

A consultant recently noticed a company announcement about the features in the U.K. The company did not respond to questions about the program. But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.” version of the platform and shared a screenshot on Twitter.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

The pandemic forced lasting changes on the American education system. The pandemic bump that many edtech firms experienced has faded, but private capital’s interest in edtech, and in shaping the education system, remains. You’ve written that this opens up the opportunities to game the system. Second, social-emotional learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

In some ways, the San Francisco-based company is arguing that high-quality education can be done cheaper thanks to technology in ways that have been elusive in the past. Minerva is a for-profit company that has raised more than $119 million since its founding in 2012, and it provides online-education services and curriculum.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And some state governments are applying this system to help their residents directly. The report divides these credentials into 18 categories across four types of providers: postsecondary educational institutions, MOOC organizations, secondary schools and non-academic entities. provide credentials: 59,692.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. It is licensed under creative commons so that any college can use it.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

With the new capital, Coursera, which was previously valued at $800 million, is now valued at “well north of” $1 billion, a spokesperson tells EdSurge, bringing the company into unicorn status—a distinction only a handful of education companies have earned. based company has now raised a total of $314 million, according to Crunchbase.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Some of them are developing their own courses to train workers in the skills the company needs. Go with a company that offers great customer support. Take some time to analyze the morale of the company that’s serving you, and see if they will be there when your team needs help. In higher education, a lot’s at stake.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

These include: the costs of setting up ledger systems. The report highlights four: Dallas Gives Students the GreenLight A private blockchain built in the Hyperledger system helps students move among Dallas-area school districts, the University of North Texas at Dallas, the seven-institution Dallas Community College District and jobs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

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. And it eventually will lead to those established industries falling away and the new industries and companies taking over. But hasn’t the energy faded from this topic a bit?

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

The group’s new ISTE U is a partnership with Dominican University, in California, and D2L, a learning management system provider. For many, what ISTE is doing with online courses may sound similar to MOOCs (massive open online courses), or other online certifications for educators offered by big companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The learning management system, for example, originated at universities. (We But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. What kind of company culture sanctions that? We can debate which one.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5 That vision has investors feeling stoked. million seed round for Engageli.

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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. The two companies officially signed the deal at 6 p.m.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2021

Udemy has become one of the best-funded companies in edtech, having raised another $80 million earlier this year, bringing its total raised to nearly $300 million. The company lets anyone create and offer an online course on its platform, which has become the largest of its kind. First, some background.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Mitrano, who is running for congress, says a benefit of keeping the internet’s current categorization as a utility means the FCC is able to use methods like taxation and regulation to leverage for-profit companies to bring internet to rural areas.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Decentralized Systems Fans of cryptocurrency and Web3 champion the idea of decentralization—freeing commerce and other activities from government oversight and regulation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

Or, as one anonymous audience member, using the online system required to pose questions during the session, asked why in her listing of stakeholders, she “placed entrepreneurs and innovators ahead of teachers and students.” Agarwal likened the current education system to a missile where “you fire and you forget.”

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2016

I recently saw another nice use of VR from a company that does educational experiences. So why not combine an amazing tool into a system that is used by students daily? I’m not talking about a simulation of the solar system, but rather about a full course with lessons and assignments, all based on VR. Seems complicated right?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

based company announced two new “nanodegree” offerings: an introductory program for self-driving cars and, yes, another one for flying cars. Thrun claims that “that nearly 60 students [in the former program] have already found new jobs at companies like BMW, Lockheed Martin, NIO, Volvo and Amazon Robotics.”

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

People are using it in the hundreds, not the tens of thousands,” says Julian Alssid, chief marketplace engagement officer at SocialTech.ai, the company that runs the Unmudl platform. Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Now, it just needs students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market. So grain of salt and my apologies and all that.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

And so he began building a prototype for an automated online grading tool that today has grown into his company, Gradescope. Other efforts such as MOOC platform edX’s Enhanced AI Scoring Engine have similarly tried to use automation to reduce the time educators spend on grading. Singh’s company takes a slightly different approach.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

They were incredibly hardworking people, but the ones creating the most significant social impact in the world were also often too busy to finish a MOOC. A few companies are heading that way. I could hardly blame them. University campuses are integrating Kaltura into their LMS platforms to enable students to capture and upload videos.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

In particular, continuing education programs are less regulated, more responsive to industry and consumer needs, have less restrictive budget policies and procurement systems, operate under lower political pressure, and are often infused with the “startup mentality” that is critical for responding to and pioneering disruptive innovations.

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