Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Voice, after all, is one of the most natural ways to interface with technology, says Coursera’s Alexander Sanchez. As a senior product manager, Sanchez looks for innovative opportunities to maximize learning experiences across devices and technologies. How do you imagine Coursera students using voice to support their learning?

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Coursera Technology Education Company 191

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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Coursera Course MOOC Company 177

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Online education companies, including Coursera and Duolingo, also use Examity to verify the identities of students who earn certificates. According to London, all data collected during a test session is encrypted and stored on the company’s own servers. In most cases, he claims, information is deleted within 30 days.

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Online Learning ProctorU Kaplan Coursera 145

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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Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 115

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

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 212

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 131

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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Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

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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Coursera MOOC Company Course 91

EdTechSandyK

JULY 3, 2014

The course is aimed at learning about K-12 online instruction, which I''m interested in knowing more about. The course is offered through Coursera , a known online learning platform which I have heard and read good things about. Coursera and its partner organizations currently offer 10 different specializations.

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MOOC Coursera Course Online Learning 67

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

While the global disruption of in-person education seemed poised to change that, it’s largely benefiting the biggest, already-established brands so far, according to analysts and market data. Related: An online program for preschoolers expands because of coronavirus. Credit: Virginie Lefour/Belga/AFP via Getty Images.

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Technology Coursera Company Education 123

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

General Assembly, a bootcamp , will help you master new skills in design, marketing, technology and data—and offer to help you get a job. Udacity, an online-learning platform , helps you learn the latest in deep learning, machine learning, and web development—and promises it will help you qualify for your dream career.

Education 115

Education Coursera Training Online Learning 115

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Online learning—often touted as an up-and-coming way of delivering education—took its place on the world stage as the de facto model, regardless of how prepared students, employees and educators were for the experience. Employers enacted broad layoffs and unemployment claims in the U.S. have reached nearly 46 million.

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Training Education Learning Industry 171

Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues. MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates.

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MOOC Udemy Flipped Classroom Education 154

Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues. MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates.

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MOOC Udemy Education Coursera 150

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 97

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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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

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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Coursera Training MOOC Course 115

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 138

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Humans still learn by the same mechanisms they always have. It's difficult to assess overall efficacy when data is not transparent.

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Coursera MOOC Flipped Classroom Assessment 45

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As data from the National Student Clearinghouse Center shows, tuition has escalated even as enrollments fell. In partnership with edX, GeorgiaTech will deliver two more low-cost online masters —one in analytics and another in cyber security. Classic economic theory predicts that when demand falls, so do prices.

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Online Learning Coursera Learning Report 122

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 100

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data. plays especially nicely with Coursera, Udacity, edX, Khan Academy, Vimeo, and YouTube. Notes are automatically saved to a file in Google Drive.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center.

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MOOC Khan Academy BYOD Libraries 75

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 196

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

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. What if online learning could be a way to help us more effectively figure out who we should invest in?

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MOOC Course Coursera Online Learning 100

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 97

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn. But what on earth could be neo-colonial about free online education? Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning.

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MOOC Coursera Knowledge Base Microsoft 158

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 172

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.) ” (deeplearning.ai More from Edsurge.

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Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 53

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

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Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

I think the success of MOOCs, at least initially, might be linked to the fact that administrators around the world started to pay attention to online learning. But the fact they all just tried to do MOOCs (bigger online classes in a bigger "open" LMS) might be a good example of their limitations.

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MOOC LMS VLE EdTech 28

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach. " Tagged on: March 10, 2017 When Extensions Go Bad | The Electric Educator → Keeping your devices and data private requires vigilance and caution. Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 4, 2017 State auditor introduces legislation to protect students' personal information | The Turner Report → Missouri Senate Bill 478 would require school districts to notify parents or guardians of a data breach involving student information.

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

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. million total.

Education 43

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”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?”

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