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Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall

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Coursera, which provides online courses to higher-ed institutions, businesses and government agencies, has raised $130 million in a Series F round led by NEA. To date, Coursera has raised $464 million, according to CEO Jeff Maggioncalda. Coursera for Campus launched last October. education technology company in 2020.

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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

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Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. Of course, the money the company is raising is very real—nearly $520 million. Here are the takeaways: Coursera Already Had Cash, But Now It Can Add … More AI?

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In New Push to Grow Online Degree Offerings, Coursera Changes Revenue-Sharing Options

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Ten years ago when two Stanford professors started Coursera , many of the big-name colleges the company partnered with offered few online courses. And the courses they put on Coursera were done mainly as goodwill outreach—free offerings to help spread knowledge to those who couldn’t afford a campus experience.

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

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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. It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. “EdX EdX is like a distant No.

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Coursera & MedCerts Partnership Brings In-Demand Healthcare Courses to Global Learner Community

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(NYSE: LRN), an education company that provides online and blended education programs, announced a new partnership with online learning platform Keep Reading Coursera & MedCerts Partnership Brings In-Demand Healthcare Courses to Global Learner Community The post Coursera & MedCerts Partnership Brings In-Demand Healthcare Courses to Global (..)

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Will the Pandemic Lead More Colleges to Offer Credit for MOOCs? Coursera is Pushing for It.

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When two Stanford University professors started Coursera in 2012, the focus was on building free online courses to bring teaching from elite colleges out to the world. So Coursera sees a new business opportunity: to sell the courses it developed to colleges that want to use them as part of for-credit courses for their own students.

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A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of Stats and Trends for Large-Scale Online Courses in 2021

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Coursera went public , while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. Ten years ago, more than 300,000 learners were taking the three free Stanford courses that kicked off the modern MOOC movement. In March, Coursera went public on the NYSE, raising $519 million. revenue ($14.7

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