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Could Coursera Become as Prestigious as Harvard? This Expert Thinks So.

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One area that needs a fresh definition to fit the times, he argues, is what it means for higher education to be equitable. Our current definition of equity is that we offer all students the same resources,” he says. Major online-learning platforms, including Coursera, are pushing colleges to offer more online degrees these days.

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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. In March, Coursera went public on the NYSE, raising $519 million. million) and how much Coursera paid its university partners ($281 million). In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event.

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Are Upstart Online Providers Getting Better at Teaching Than Traditional Colleges?

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But now that companies like Coursera have grown into edtech giants— the company went public in March and is valued at more than $3 billion—he was curious to see what their offerings are like these days. The answer to that is definitely no because there was no professor in the course. The answer is not definitive.

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The Future Belongs to Online Learners — But Only If Programs Can Help Them Succeed

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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.” And it’s not the only high-tech strategy that Coursera employs to shepherd users through courses.

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Dear Liberal Arts Major: STEM Companies Need Your Skills to Grow

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Her career journey, which led her to Coursera, a startup that develops online courses and educational programs, highlights a trend that has become more pronounced in the last few years. Mary’s College of California which, she said, definitely helped prepare her for a career in tech. Jess Aragon majored in communications at St.

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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

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Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. These are probably the best you can ever find online. This is a work in progress.

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This Company Aims to Become the Amazon of Lifelong Learning

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I think there are a lot of tech companies that are purely online—everyone from Zoom to Coursera—[and they] are definitely suffering because when there is the offline option, then there's always going to be kind of a shift back to that when it becomes available, which is obviously what's happened post-pandemic. edtech market.

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