Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

Hosted at Stanford University, the day-long event brought together dozens of minds who are thinking about what careers and skills students need to prepare for, and how an increasingly digital higher-education system will need to adapt to help get them there. Farouk Dey. Even those coming from the corporate world tended to agree with Dey.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Radio programming brought the live entertainment people attended—theater, concerts and sporting events—to the airwaves prior to creating its own unique programing. Consider online instruction. At first, each new communications technology mimics its predecessor.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). At one point Coursera boasted about a average forum response time of 22 minutes; that’s no longer the case. Providers can make the MOOC Semester an opt-in event. Finally, sufficient hype.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Charles Severance was one of the first professors at the University of Michigan to give the massive open online courses (MOOC) platform Coursera a try. To try to serve more students, Severance and his colleague, Colleen Van Lent, each have a new specialization on Coursera, which Coursera describes in part as a “series of rigorous courses.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But Charles Severance , a University of Michigan professor who also teaches massive open online courses (MOOCs) on Coursera , doesn’t think higher education will be terribly affected, he tells EdSurge. He points out that higher education institutions don’t have the large amount of traffic that, say, a company like Netflix has.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2023

It could be family vacations, childhood homes, or significant life events. Platforms like MasterClass, Coursera, or Udemy offer a range of courses, from cooking to photography to writing. This way, each month brings back fond memories.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Coursera, the biggest microcredential provider, lets students take month-long courses to develop skills for higher-paying jobs. Related: Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to “microcredentials”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

At the event, which was held at the Computer Science History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. While other MOOC providers such as Coursera have recently added more of these kinds of degree programs to their platform, Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun said his company has no plans to expand its offerings in coordination with other universities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Historic events can shape the convictions of a cohort. And Boise State is offering a “ Bronco Gap Year ” with the opportunity to explore one’s passions while taking classes from Coursera that will count for credit. What are their passions, what do they dislike, and how can they best contribute to the world? President John F.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

If you offer an online course that people can work through at their own pace (asynchronously), it often helps to have a series of “live” or synchronous events that students can collectively tune in to during a course. Combine synchronous and asynchronous learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

What binds these and countless other education ideas, events, words and buzzwords together? Wanna come over tonight to Coursera and chill ? Hackathons. Pitchfests. Why, love, of course. A love for learning, teaching, education, a better tomorrow—and the role that technology could play. Come with me and we’ll #GoOpen new opportunities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Strategically targeted for higher-ed faculty members, the event drew about 450 attendees who joined in person and via livestream last year. education technology companies have propelled Coursera , Duolingo and Guild Education to the unicorn stable. According to Grauer, more than 30,000 college educators across the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It also created an “Events” portal where language learners can organize local meetups. Coursera, which also offers access to online higher-ed courses, secured $103 million in April. The language exercises include a mix of multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, along with digital flashcards and oral speaking practice.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates. Change is not an event; it is a process. But there’s a big journey from theory to practice. SPOCs: scaling down for best results.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates. “ Change is not an event; it is a process. ” But there's a big journey from theory to practice. SPOCs: scaling down for best results.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

For Najera, websites on the internet do not provide enough information for educators to make final decisions on technology, so he traveled to the event in San Antonio to see and interact with the tools in person. When Chen started her work back in 2012, she says people were obsessed with online learning models like Coursera.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

With a mixture of playfulness and urgency, organizers named the event “Harvesting Academic Innovation for Learners (HAIL) Storm.” The University of Michigan was a fitting place to host the HAIL Storm (and not just because the rainfall during the event could easily have turned icy).

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

One example is the iMBA program , a low-cost online business program offered by the University of Illinois, run in partnership with Coursera. During the sessions, they spend the 90 minutes doing hands-on problems based on an event in the news that demonstrates ideas covered in the lectures.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I kind of see [us] as the anti-Coursera,” he says. The challenge and competition is convincing people to come out to classes and events, rather than stay home and watch Netflix, he says. Blended learning is the way to go for them, Rohrbach says. “I You don’t want to be by yourself in front of a computer.”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Even Coursera, which has historically partnered with universities, jumped on the employer bandwagon, announcing a new content partnership with Google this year. Our best chance at building educational models that prepare students for the future is to combine the best of university learning with bursts of career-focused training.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The teams—including LiveStories—presented their solutions at a White House event. They were asked to develop solutions for problem statements put forth by several federal agencies. One new free tool aims to make it easy for parents and stakeholders to compare school districts across the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

The event was part of our EdSurge Live series. 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. Or watch the complete conversation.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Coursera (online education) –- $64 million.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Also, have events with best practice sharing. Bederson: Inspires & supports effective teaching, equitable teaching, efficient teaching, and engaging teaching. Applies to U. Maryland and U Penn. Make yourself available.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

This theme was evident as thought leaders and executives gathered at the recent ASU+GSV Summit, an event that itself was framed around talent just as much as education.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Parents never show up to meetings and events. In addition to university settings, you might try online learning platforms such as Coursera or Linkedin Learning. We may develop thoughts and assumptions that prevent us from cultivating and exercising full equity leadership. . I remember hearing some of my colleagues say, . “I

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Parents never show up to meetings and events. In addition to university settings, you might try online learning platforms such as Coursera or Linkedin Learning. We may develop thoughts and assumptions that prevent us from cultivating and exercising full equity leadership. . I remember hearing some of my colleagues say, . “I

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Hack Education

APRIL 16, 2018

It’s an event I’ve never attended before – one that I’ve been quite loathe to go to, in part because of the reports I hear back about some of the shadiest and most destructive elements in education business and politics. GSV’s investments include Dreambox Learning, Coursera, ClassDojo, and Edsurge.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And thank you too for the theme of this event – your willingness to talk about failures and struggles with education technology rather than, what’s almost always the case, this strange dogma the field demands – that we only offer praise and thanks for the glory of education technology. . ” Hic Sunt Dracones.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia. But there are millions more kids who deserve to get their hands on relevant, high quality learning materials.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Even professional teacher development through social media is gaining great impetus, evidenced by the large numbers of participants on education Twitter chats such as #edchat, #AussieEd and #ukedchat as well as global online events such as the Reform Symposium.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others! Volunteering : as with our other conference 2.0 See you online!

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

We’ll be broadcasting live interviews with key speakers throughout the event—online and for free. Another big focus of this year’s gathering, says event host Deborah Quazzo, is on workforce talent development and retention. (Is it, perhaps, the state’s lower alcohol limit for beers?). Can’t join us in Silicon Slopes? Don’t worry.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

This past year was eventful in education – we saw new measures to connect schools around the country , concepts like maker spaces, design thinking, and coding make their way into the mainstream, and teachers become more tech-savvy and connected. As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) .” Also via NPR : “The Benefits Of Taking Out Loans For College.” ” (deeplearning.ai More from Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

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