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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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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. And how is edX doing by comparison?

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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

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The University of Michigan, in partnership with Coursera, is running a free online “ teach-out ” for educators and others who want to understand how AI chatbots work and what impact they might have on society, led by professors across disciplines including social sciences, medicine, computer science and others.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Coursera, Andela, Degreed, A Cloud Guru and Lambda School all offer courses tailored for people who want to pick up new professional skills (usually involving programming and computer science).

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EverFi Rocks the Edtech Industry With $190 Million Fundraise

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The team in charge of managing these sponsor relationships is “relatively small,” she adds, in comparison to the company’s K-12 implementation team that has footprints across the country, from urban metropolises to coal country and the Mississippi Delta. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Coursera CEO Rick Levin.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. Last year, only 25,000 Americans graduated from bootcamps, in comparison to two million bachelors degrees awarded. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. education and workforce technology companies: Six companies went public at valuations above $1 billion: PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. NYSE: NRDY).

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What Do You Call It When Colleges Turn Their Research Powers On Their Own Practices?

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Except that analogy doesn’t really work, because education isn’t a product, and most professors bristle at comparisons to the corporate sector. In some ways the centers are inspired by autonomous R&D units within major corporations, ones tasked with inventing the next big product or improving business efficiency.

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A Record Year Amid a Pandemic: US Edtech Raises $2.2 Billion in 2020

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Roblox is followed by Coursera and CampusLogic, which respectively offer online courses and financial management tools to colleges and universities. Engageli, a similar effort led by the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller (who is an advisor), raised $14.5 million in 2020. billion valuation. While the $2.2

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