Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

.” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Vive la MOOC révolution. It was big as in bad.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). That would be Omarosa Manigault Newman , of course. Via the IBM press release : “How Watson Education , Scholastic and Edmodo are using AI to close the learning gap.” billion over next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. How’d He Learn to Fly?

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Do Online Courses Really Save Money? School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. The reading software-maker has raised $3.2 Edmodo had raised some $77.5 ” asks Edsurge. million total.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a look back at what’s happened over the course of each year, not simply – to counter that totally overused phrase from hockey player Wayne Gretsky’s dad – to “skate to where the puck is going,” but to examine where it has been. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” I’d totally forgotten that Zynga was still a thing, but apparently the company has enough money to subsidize gaming courses. ” asks IHE blogger Joshua Kim. What could go wrong?).

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