Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Coursera (online education): $210.1 Perhaps the biggest acquisition of the year was Edmodo. million for Edmodo – only about $15 million of which was cash. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. It was big as in bad.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” I made that selection in part because several ed-tech companies indicated that year that this was what they hoped to become – the MOOC startups, for example, as well as Edmodo, a social network marketed to K–12 schools. ” Despite raising some $87.5

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. For a time, Edmodo was quite the ed-tech industry darling.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). 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. .” “ Can Edmodo Turn Virality into Profitability?

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.” ” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.”

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