Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

You see platforms like edX, Coursera and Udacity working with employers who are focused on jobs skills and demands that are out there in the external market, and then going to their university or college partners and really designing to that. And then, what will it roll into as a credential?

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Even though the cost of delivering online courses was then far less than on campus, we worried that if colleges set a lower price for remote instruction, students and their families might get the wrong impression, with lower prices signaling that digital learning was less valuable. And of course a college degree does have an economic payoff.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. Ivy League colleges now offer more than 450 of these courses. And some Ivies offer graduate certificate programs online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

As a senior in high school he persuaded his parents to upgrade their internet speed so that he could stream online course videos from MIT. He managed to earn a perfect score in the edX Circuits and Electronics course and gain admittance to MIT. primary and secondary education. Why was Battushig so captivating?

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EdTech Company Secondary Coursera 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Playful Learning: Games and the Future of STEM - Danny Fain, Teacher in Residence Redefining STEM Rubrics for the 21’st Century: It’s all about mastery!

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

(But note: the kinds of companies that get coverage in the ed-tech and tech press – those that I’m likely to see and include in my research – are more likely to be those targeting K–12 and post-secondary education than those targeting the corporate learning market.). Coursera (online education) – $64 million.

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Coursera Knewton Company Udemy 57

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) .” Also via NPR : “The Benefits Of Taking Out Loans For College.” ” (deeplearning.ai More from Edsurge.

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Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” The for-profit: Laureate Education (which once began as the tutoring chain Sylvan Learning and is now an investor in Coursera, I always like to point out). Via The Washington Post : “Inside Bill Clinton ’s nearly $18 million job as ‘honorary chancellor’ of a for-profit college.” Meanwhile on Campus.

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Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. .” ” This argument is, of course, ridiculously daft, as “the liberal arts” has historically included math and science.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Handing over data, often quite thoughtlessly, has become par for the course – in education and in society more generally. QR codes are, of course, notoriously bad security and a way for malicious code to be executed. The university defended its decision , of course. What data gets collected? What data gets preserved?

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

JULY 8, 2016

. “ ‘Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years’ ” says the BBC, citing a prediction made by Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “For Students Taking Online Courses, a Completion Paradox.” ” Institut Mines-Télécom joins edX.

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Education Report Company Coursera 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Even without providing you the final tally of funding for 2016, I can point to other signals about what’s happened to ed-tech startups over the course of the last twelve months – their sustainability, their viability. (Or Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. Why, schools of course. What Do Venture Capitalists Want?

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

“A Kayak for Credentials” – Inside Higher Ed on Credential Engine ’s plans for a big database on post-secondary credentials. More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section.

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Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Humphrey testified that he hired Hubbard on a $7,500-per-month consulting contract to connect him to legislative leaders in other states, as Edgenuity tried to sell digital courses.” He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” asks Edsurge.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48