EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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. It’s a great app for field trips.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.) Some 100,000 signed up for the MOOC version.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

What that metaverse will look like is still a bit vague, but the company gave some hints in prepared statements and in an hour-long video it released. The version of the metaverse imagined in the hour-long video that Meta released yesterday involves a mix of technology, including what appear to be holograms.

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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. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the outside, the ed-tech sector may appear as if “there’s a bonanza and it’s like the dot-com boom again and everybody’s printing money,” said Michael Hansen, CEO of the K-12 and higher education digital learning provider Cengage. That is not the case.”. Many companies have also seen expenses soar.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. education and workforce technology companies: Six companies went public at valuations above $1 billion: PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Coursera raised $103 million this year and became a unicorn, and Lambda School raised $30 million. This year, the company introduced video conferencing on its platform. “We This year has seen major investment in companies that tout services to connect education, students and employers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

We see that people often purchase on-demand courses on platforms like Udemy or Teachable, but only a quarter of those who purchase log in to watch the first video. We’ve also hosted “office hours” where students have a chance to interact via video conference with the subject matter expert featured in the course.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

And students in a musicology course at Virginia Tech were assigned to create TikTok videos. Along with their students, faculty were “thrown into the deep end of the pool for digital learning and asked to swim,” Moe said. Coursera is providing 550 colleges and universities with free access to its online courses.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

It’s a tempting thought: Put a toddler in front of a computer or video with the right program and they’ll quickly acquire skills like reading, writing and early math. The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’. Digital Learning Day cometh.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One Ivy, Columbia University, actually got an early start 35 years ago at the dawn of the digital age, when it launched its Video Network that now produces about a dozen online engineering master’s degrees. Why do Harvard and other Ivies offer so few virtual degrees?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.” ” More via Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Fraternity Members Suspended for Racist, Homophobic Video.” ” From the Coursera blog : “ Coursera for Business Is Now Available to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.” ” “Don’t Buy The Arizona State Report On Digital Learning ,” says Forbes.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” “ State educational technology directors have outlined ambitious targets for increasing school bandwidth capacity in an effort to support digital learning and bridge the technology divide that exists in schools and in students’ homes,” says Education Week. ” The company in question: edX.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. ” Via Business Insider : “ Surveillance videos show police officer allegedly abusing high school students.” Via The Outline : “ Machine learning is racist because the internet is racist.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” 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. Via The New York Times : “On YouTube Kids , Startling Videos Slip Past Filters.”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. The Teaching Channel , a video-based professional development organization heavily backed by the Gates Foundation , is becoming a for-profit company. “What if the US had an OU?” Sounds Familiar.”

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