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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

Edsurge

Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. But in a new effort announced Thursday, called Coursera for Campus, the company will begin selling access to its complete library of courseware to any college to use, at around $400 per student.

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In Evolving World of Microcredentials, Students, Colleges and Employers Want Different Things

Edsurge

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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Building Effective Edtech Business Models to Reach the Global Poor

Edsurge

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. primary and secondary education. In recent years, Latin America has enrolled nearly all students in.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

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 Weekly News

Hack Education

” 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). Apple held a marketing event this week, and the PR was duly repeated by the tech press. Meanwhile on Campus. Upgrades and Downgrades. What would VCs do.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects. Edsurge told its version of events for the past decade’s worth of ed-tech, and I told mine. One can trace far too many bad ideas to the event whose focus purports to be on “ideas worth spreading”: TED. The TED Talk.

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