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

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It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. And how is edX doing by comparison? They have a different set of stakeholders that Coursera doesn’t have.”

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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 based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

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Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019

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Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. By comparison, people need 29 hours on average to earn a MOOC certificate. Isn’t this a sign that the form has failed?

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