Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera, can’t hide his excitement about AI. He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” She’s now completing an online MBA from Western Governors University (WGU).

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

DeVaney wouldn’t reveal much about the innovation team’s particular plans, other than to say that the university intends to offer three new online and hybrid degree programs in the fall and to launch multiple degrees per year over the next five years. We develop a more agile and iterative model for our constituents on campus.”

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MOOC Coursera Software Course 141

EdTechSandyK

JULY 3, 2014

Image Used With Permission Under a Creative Commons License Late last week I was innocently checking my Twitter feed, and I saw an announcement for a MOOC called Foundations of Virtual Instruction. The course is aimed at learning about K-12 online instruction, which I''m interested in knowing more about. before paying any money.

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MOOC Coursera Course Online Learning 67

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Using GPS data, a runner can track her route and pace, and then share the activity with friends. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. billion kudos on the platform.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A Need for More Strategic Online-Learning Capacity Following the sudden move to online and remote learning across all of American higher education last spring, many community colleges will be operating online this fall. More broadly, it is an era of surging demand for online postsecondary learning.

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 211

Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When Coursera, Udacity, and edX started up within four months of one another, in 2012, The New York Times declared it the year of the MOOC. Now that the clamor is dying down, researchers are gauging what actually has developed in terms of massive open online courses. But intuition is one thing, and data are another.”.

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Coursera Survey MOOC Online Learning 28

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. EdX and Coursera are leading the way, but traditional schools like MIT are adding their own take as well.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. Coursera founder Daphne Koller.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

You worked in a traditional university and then moved to Ashford—what attracted you to online learning? When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Dr. Jongbok Byun How does online learning benefit students?

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MOOC Coursera Online Learning Course 106

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 University of Houston System via Coursera. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s important to recognize that this crisis will likely only accelerate the march of automation and the adoption of various labor-replacing technologies, including machine learning and AI. MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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Udemy Course Coursera MOOC 147

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Applies to U. Maryland and U Penn.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2021

When MIT and Harvard University started edX nearly a decade ago, it was touted as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online course providers. The nonprofit will also “explore promising new ideas for making online learning more effective, engaging and personalized,” said Reif in his letter. 2U is all about strategy,” he added.

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MOOC Coursera Company Course 202

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Click here to see all of them.)

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. complete multiple MOOCs.

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MOOC Course Coursera Online Learning 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012.

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Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 99

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As data from the National Student Clearinghouse Center shows, tuition has escalated even as enrollments fell. In an equally surprising move for a premier institution, the university is also giving enrolled students in its new online bachelor’s an unprecedented discount— cutting virtual education tuition by $1,000 per credit.

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Online Learning Coursera Learning Report 128

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Before the invasion of the internet, the university comprised a secure, single identity; now—with about a third of college students online —the American college is bifurcated. But the situation online tilts far more to adjuncts, with very likely 90 percent or more in that category.

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MOOC Kaplan Coursera Report 107

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

So much so, the New York Times even dubbed 2012 the “ Year of the MOOC.” Advocates for the courses would point a finger at the unaffordability of traditional education, promising that MOOCs could offer cheaper, more innovative alternatives. such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn. And why would MOOCs need to decolonize?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The boom in short-form digital learning in the workplace doesn’t mean that classroom-based corporate training or more structured on-the-job learning is going away. But it does mean that the expectations of employers and workers are shifting, and that data and algorithms are driving and measuring what workers have learned.

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Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 169

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). 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.) More robot news up in the MOOC section above.

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Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 53

Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

Don''t get me wrong, it wasn''t like MOOCs or anything, but it was a pretty strong response from a simple blog post. What is the secret behind the success of MOOCs? Not sure MOOCs are a success, do we have any real sense of that? I am not a fan of the MOOC as they''re sold by Coursera, Udacity, and the like.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.). ” asks The Atlantic.

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

“The Star Tribune is suing the Minneapolis Public Schools in an effort to force the release of data relating to student suspensions, school climate issues and district spending, among other concerns,” The Star Tribune reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Spoiler alert: no.).

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Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” ” Try learning styles, maybe. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. ” Immigration and Education.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Student aid advocates and financial aid administrators say shutdown of IRS data retrieval tool has consequences beyond the FAFSA process.” ” “Online Tool to Apply for College Aid Was Taken Down Due to ‘Criminal Activity’,” The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via The Seattle Times : “A cellphone belonging to the man who claims he shot and wounded another man in self-defense during a demonstration last month at the University of Washington had been wiped clean of data before being seized by police, according to search-warrant documents filed in King County Superior Court.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Vive la MOOC Révolution. It’s not simply that the predictions were wrong.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “ will be unavailable for several weeks.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “Data shows Indiana students are taking AP exams, but half aren’t passing them.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Data-Protection Law Looms.” ” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. ” “Whatever happened to the promise of online learning ?”

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” A ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union raises interesting questions about the ownership of student data : “Exam scripts and examiner’s corrections are personal data of the exam candidate.” Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.”

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