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3 SEO Strategies for Edtech Business

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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. What Do the Best Edtech Websites Have in Common?

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In New Push to Grow Online Degree Offerings, Coursera Changes Revenue-Sharing Options

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Ten years ago when two Stanford professors started Coursera , many of the big-name colleges the company partnered with offered few online courses. And the courses they put on Coursera were done mainly as goodwill outreach—free offerings to help spread knowledge to those who couldn’t afford a campus experience.

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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

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Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. EdSurge talked with Coursera’s CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, today to ask him what this unicorn company, valued at more than $3.6 There are 1.3

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Colleges Are Losing Students. Is That A Growth Opportunity For Coursera?

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To Coursera, the online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” that went public last year , this may represent an opportunity to serve as an institutional bridge for some of these universities in the struggle to stop the bleeding. That may represent an untapped growth opportunity for Coursera, he adds.

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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say. Downsides of Openness?

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As Number of Edtech Providers Grow, Some Say Student Privacy Needs a Reset

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The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. During the pandemic, schools became more reliant on tech than ever.

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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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Under Vista’s ownership, PowerSchool has spent more than $1 billion acquiring other edtech companies, including grabbing the Schoology learning management system popular with K-12 schools. She called the pandemic a “seminal moment” for edtech. PowerSchool is one of a string of edtech IPOs this year.

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