eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

Key points: The COVID-19 pandemic facilitated the introduction of new learning technologies into the mainstream Educators and students were forced to adapt to new edtech tools, which now have a permanent place in today’s classrooms It goes without saying that the Covid-19 pandemic affected every aspect of our lives in one way or another.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Some education experts have already penned that the vote is likely to pass , potentially raising the cost of accessing learning and student-success tools, prioritizing commercial and entertainment traffic over education and research, and slowing the pace of research and innovation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

This afternoon, Coursera filed its S-1 paperwork , offering a first look at how the Mountain View, Calif.-based Coursera reported $293.5 Also driving that growth is Coursera for Campus, which the company launched in late 2019 to let colleges offer its library of online courses to their students.

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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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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.” But learning online remains a hard nut to crack.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 21, 2023

The Edtech industry is worth over $340 billion , and its value will keep rising as digital learning becomes even more common. Owning a successful Edtech website means learning optimization tactics that can help increase web visibility and create opportunities for revenue generation. This is good news for those in the industry.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

So much so that one professor thinks that higher ed should probably be nervous—or at least that colleges should try to learn something from these well-funded efforts. And the feedback loop is at the center of all human learning processes. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed. How was what you saw?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Coursera, for example, reported that as of the end of 2020, it had grown to having more than 77 million registered learners on its platform from more than 190 countries—although not all of those people are taking courses for credit or are seeking credentials. In retrospect, Christensen was right—with one caveat.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. As for the MOOC providers, Coursera is the biggest one—with the most revenue and the most number of users, and also the most number of employees. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 31, 2017

In my newest book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (out soon), I’ve dedicated one of the missions to citizen science projects. Below, find citizen science projects, lesson plans and activities to prepare you for this momentous learning opportunity!

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. Sure, having specialized software for learning is great, but these will at least start you off on the right foot. Sure, having specialized software for learning is great, but these will at least start you off on the right foot.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s a self-reinforcing strategy that is the same one followed by Coursera. edX was never the premier MOOC brand—that title belongs to Coursera. The flywheel aspect is that the more the strategy succeeds, the more revenue is made by institutional partners and by the company, leading to more free courses and registered learners.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

But both Coursera and EdX, two of the largest providers, do release lists of their most popular courses. Both edX and Coursera typically split revenue 50-50 with their partners, and it’s up to each college or organization to decide how their cut is shared. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.) News college rankings.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The way of teaching and learning is changing every day. Digital learning tools are the pen and paper of our time. Digital technology is the lens through which we are experiencing the world now. In typical classrooms, students learn from textbooks or lectures and then solve the problems given at the end of the chapter.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2020

Duke has long built MOOCs through its partnership with Coursera, a major platform for large-scale courses, and it also had previously negotiated an arrangement with Coursera to make all of the certificate programs and courses in Coursera’s library available to all of Duke’s students (in the U.S. As the virus spread to the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Coursera, a company that hosts massive online courses and degrees, is the latest entrant among a growing number of online education providers that are entering the medical space. In terms of the existing [medical] workforce, there is clearly a shift in the skill set that is necessary,” says Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

FutureLearn launched with a dozen university partners in 2012, the same year that other MOOC platform providers—namely Coursera, edX and Udacity—also launched and whose growth have somewhat overshadowed FutureLearn’s (at least here among U.S. audiences). If FutureLearn is indeed serious about expanding in the U.S., it has its work cut out.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

He’s also backed Coursera and Course Hero, two privately held edtech companies that are each valued at more than $1 billion. And even though there are unicorns—Coursera, Course Hero, Duolingo and Udemy among them—they may not command those levels of dollars from public-market investors. Moe has picked some winners in education.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

Officials from the company, which makes the Canvas learning-management system used at many colleges and schools, rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange today, marking its IPO. Coursera, which sells online courses by top colleges, went public earlier this year. Instructure is officially a publicly-traded company—again.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And Facebook (er, I guess now Meta) announced that it would partner with Coursera and edX to help push Meta’s curriculum in augmented and virtual reality, which it calls the Spark AR Curriculum. Imagine learning how the forum was built by actually watching the forum get built right in front of you.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The lackluster credit procurement rate may be due to the fact that online courses are “not a good way to hook in” freshmen, says Marie Cini, president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. In 2013, the American Council on Education recommended colleges accept for credit 12 specific MOOCs offered by Coursera and Udacity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa's passion for education came early in her career when she was producing "edutainment" CD-ROM products for The Learning Company. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students and provide access to information and learning resources in a more convenient way.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. Our thesis is around meeting unmet learning demand for learning opportunities,” offers Wirz, whether they happen in schools or are “driven by economic imperatives or leisurely activities.” In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

EdSurge put that question to Engageli’s co-founder, Dan Avida, a venture capitalist who was an early board member of Coursera—the online course giant that his wife, Daphne Koller, co-founded. Haven’t schools and colleges already bought what they need by now for remote learning? This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

a month to keep kids learning at home. But half of that went to just six companies, including the celebrity tutorial provider MasterClass, the online learning platform Udemy and the school and college review site Niche. What might is that not all of them are making money from it. That is not the case.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

A combination of “market volatility” and “increased demand for help with remote learning led to a great opportunity to set ourselves up to raise more capital,” Grauer adds. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Capella students are in an online environment, where sometimes it’s a challenge to find that experiential learning.” Coursera raised $103 million this year and became a unicorn, and Lambda School raised $30 million. It gets them real-world experience. million round of funding for the startup.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

However, since 2012—when MOOCs gained widespread recognition —instructional designers have made significant strides in designing scalable learning experiences that people successfully finish. If your goal is having more students finish a learning experience, require students to demonstrate upfront commitment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“Online education is using digital technologies to transform the learning experience. What we are talking about when we talk about online education is using digital technologies to transform the learning experience,” said Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

Leaders in the sector, including 2U, Coursera and Keypath, never made a profit on the activity, and Pearson and Wiley sold off their OPM offshoots in recent months when the going got rough. OPMs, I worried, would undermine academic integrity in digital education. It’s an OPM paradox — as companies lose money, colleges make it. “The

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Wired Campus

JUNE 5, 2015

Last spring a group of university leaders announced a bold, new project intended to help colleges gain more control of their online course platforms, as they increasingly turned to providers like Coursera or edX. Some people involved in digital education say the group’s goal is timely and important.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? Kim: Transform teaching & learning at MIT around the globe through the use of digital technology. Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Applies to U.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

We are so far behind in training preschool teachers on the science of how kids learn that parents are coming to asking them questions about what apps they should download…and they don’t know,’’ Guernsey said. The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’. From Yale to Coursera.

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