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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. And how is edX doing by comparison?

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AUGUST 7, 2019

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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APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. 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. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. NYSE: NRDY).

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Except that analogy doesn’t really work, because education isn’t a product, and most professors bristle at comparisons to the corporate sector. Many of the new academic-innovation efforts at colleges started about three years ago, amid widespread hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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