Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. Universities are rapidly adapting to improve their online and sub-degree credential offerings as Sean Gallagher and I documented in Harvard Business Review. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. NYSE: NRDY).

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 184

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

The largest funding rounds of 2017 and 2018, and the most richly-capitalized companies overall, include Coursera, Degreed, Andela, MasterClass, and Trilogy Education Services—which for example each represent services or platforms to help meet the talent challenge, rather than, say, companies that offer software or tools to traditional colleges.

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Education Company Coursera Policies 118

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

Lafayette College showed faculty how to make document cameras at home using cardboard and rubber bands. Coursera is providing 550 colleges and universities with free access to its online courses. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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Tools Coursera Course Survey 124

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

You see platforms like edX, Coursera and Udacity working with employers who are focused on jobs skills and demands that are out there in the external market, and then going to their university or college partners and really designing to that. Do institutions become forced to accept and recognize [more] outside credit?

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Coursera Trends Training MOOC 96

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. This may seem obvious: The tech must work well, be documented well in understandable language, and be supported. Applies to U. Maryland and U Penn. Pros & Cons of Organizational Structure Lead with pedagogy first.

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Coursera MOOC Flipped Classroom Assessment 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Coursera (online education) –- $64 million. Coursera (online education) – $210.1 Is this really a trend? Would it be valuable to KPCB if it were?”

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations at the Student Borrower Protection Center Make School’s disastrous downfall, as documented by a Student Borrower Protection Center report provided to The Hechinger Report, should sound alarm bells about partnerships like this, advocates for students warn.

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Company Report Outcomes Data 102

Kyle Pace

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This app is a great way for students to take notes while watching a YouTube, Khan Academy, Vimeo, or Coursera video simultaneously. You will not find this one through the “Connect more apps” option directly in Drive. You load the video on the left side of the interface and use the right side to take notes.

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Google Khan Academy Coursera Adobe 40

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is appealing a lower court’s ruling that it must repay $60 million to the state of Ohio as it cannot document students “attended” its online charter school. .” Education in the Courts.

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 57

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2023

PDF annotation apps PDF annotation apps are a type of applications that allow users to engage with PDFs by making note and comments on pdf documents, underlining important passages, adding forms and e-signatures, sharing feedback and many more.

Adobe 123

Adobe Khan Academy Chegg Udemy 123

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To their credit, both of the leading commercial MOOCs—Udacity and Coursera—have undertaken significant pivots to their initially flawed business models. As documented by Dale Russakoff in her compelling 2015 book “The Prize,” the Newark initiative was disastrous, leaving little to show for the massive investment.

Education 60

Education Coursera Policies MOOC 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Another key dynamic is the emergence of large-scale online learning platforms such as publicly traded companies Coursera and 2U ( now combined with EdX), which are developing a rich ecosystem of courses, microcredentials and full degrees that employers are adopting as a resource for their employees.

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Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 172

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2015

We’d like to see it crowdsourced, so we may convert it to a public document/wiki-type file at some point. …Follow my livemarking of a document or manipulation of a small object. Standalone: ELMO document camera, overhead; iPad: Justand. Udacity, Coursera, Udemy , MIT OCW ; ( see more here ).

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EdTech Khan Academy Technology Microsoft 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, according to court documents filed Monday.” Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. million people since 2003.” Google) biotech company, Calico.

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MOOC Education Coursera Company 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” The for-profit: Laureate Education (which once began as the tutoring chain Sylvan Learning and is now an investor in Coursera, I always like to point out). 8 filed by three former University of Oregon basketball players last year court documents show. Meanwhile on Campus.

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Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

“The 72 OSERS Documents Rescinded by Betsy deVos ” – by Liz Ditz. Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( From the Coursera blog : “Building India ’s Workforce for 2020.” (National) Education Politics. Marcus , president and general counsel of the Louis D. .

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MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

Documents recently obtained by the tech publication Recode revealed that Uber’s autonomous vehicles drove, on average, less than a mile without requiring human intervention. In this testing phase of Uber’s self-driving cars, it did still have a driver sitting behind the wheel. The technology simply isn’t that good yet.

Education 40

Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

” University of Zurich professor Paul-Olivier Dehaye continued his case against Coursera, questioning the authority that the MOOC startup had to transfer European student data. Picture now the children themselves wearing Fitbit-like devices that track everything from their heart rates to their time between meals.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

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 The Independent : “ Facebook research targeted insecure youth, leaked documents show.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. Well, not quite.

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

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.). ” Via Chalkbeat : “New documents show what KIPP told Mike Feinberg leading up to his firing.”

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. Via Newsworks : “New court documents reveal that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno knew about allegations of sex abuse against assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in 1976 and did nothing about it.” “ Are MOOCs Forever ?”

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Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Princeton University filed a lawsuit against the Education Department on Friday in an effort to stop the release of hundreds of pages of documents that would reveal some of the university’s private admissions procedures.” ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Used People’s Data to Favor Certain Partners and Punish Rivals, Documents Show.”

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Education MOOC Report Data 54

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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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Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45

Hack Education

MARCH 31, 2017

billion cut to the Education Department’s budget for next year, the President Donald Trump is now calling on Congress to slash nearly $3 billion in education funding for the remaining five months of this fiscal year, according to a document obtained by POLITICO.” .” Via Politico : “After proposing a $9.2

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Education Coursera Pearson Report 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

“ Coursera ’s new monthly subscriptions could monetize procrastination,” says Techcrunch. Testing, Testing… Via EdSource : “Testing company fined in California for second year.” ” The testing company in question: ETS. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education MOOC E-rate Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

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 Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.”

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” ” Codecademy, Edsurge contends, is now a competitor to Coursera and Udacity. ” Not sure why these are the four, but there you go: Udemy , Lynda , Coursera , and Skillshare.

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Via Politico : “The Trump administration has removed documents from an Education Department website aimed at transgender students , including those intended to help students fight for access to bathrooms of their choice.” In Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor ’s.”

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Hechinger Report : “Documenting Maine ’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.” “ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. ” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.”

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60