Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Here is an excellent example of an EdTech company that produces valuable content for educators. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

But the programs also serve as an example of how colleges, increasingly thinking like businesses, are eager to find new ways to bring in revenue. After all, paying for marketing and advertising to recruit students is a fast-growing cost for colleges , and building free and low-cost courses may appeal to colleges more than buying Google ads.)

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. There are other examples of this historical amnesia in ed-tech specifically, no doubt. Coursera founder Daphne Koller.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

But both Coursera and EdX, two of the largest providers, do release lists of their most popular courses. Both edX and Coursera typically split revenue 50-50 with their partners, and it’s up to each college or organization to decide how their cut is shared. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.) News college rankings.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For example, edX has offered 28 credit-eligible undergraduate courses in partnership with ASU, Charter Oak College and North Shore Community College and 270 credit-eligible MicroMasters classes with 32 institutional partners. Leah Belsky, senior vice president for enterprise at Coursera, also believes credit-eligible MOOCs have promise.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 20, 2019

Quality, inappropriate content, advertisement, and copyrights from free internet resources: Eighty-four percent of teachers reported that they use YouTube and 61% of teachers actively search Google for websites to find the videos they need. Personal stories and examples. Quotes and examples from peers.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

Limited time offers like flash sales are just one example of the kinds of marketing gimmicks that have become common in the past few years as the internet has become flooded with online course providers promising to help people learn new skills to get ahead in their careers or personal lives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Many renowned names in the game, such as Blackboard and Google, are now offering their own cloud-based virtual classroom suites. One example of a platform facilitating the completion of a higher edification is Coursera, a cloud-based service that offers a variety of courses, as well as quite a few specializations and degrees.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it. EdSurge: I’ve heard folks at Coursera refer to your courses and microcredential programs as “products.” It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Bank of America, for example, is a major sponsor of EverFi’s financial literacy program. So, too, do companies such as AirBnB, Google, Oracle and Whole Foods. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Coursera CEO Rick Levin. EverFi currently makes its K-12 offerings available to more than 20,000 K-12 schools for free.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2013

Up popped a number of edu-businesses such as Coursera, Udacity and EdX, all of which promised dynamic and scalable platforms from which any university could launch its MOOC, and gain huge numbers of students overnight. Everything is on Google. Yet many universities remain sceptical about the sustainability and relevancy of MOOCs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

The company already directly partners with employers and tech companies, such as like Lyft and Google, which offer scholarships to students who want to enroll in certain Nanodegree programs. That may look like more courses and programs around app development, for example. Other parts of Udacity’s business plan remain more ambiguous.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. College students are turning to digital tutoring platforms like Chegg and online course providers like Coursera, both of which have performed well over the last few months.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results. Better state-level coordination could also help.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Coursera is known to work with both K-12 and higher education institutions and provide them with access to online courses. For K-12 teachers, the platform also has many learning opportunities; for example, check out this course on integrating technology in the K-12 classroom that starts this month. Google Knowledge Graph.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

At Google, one of us works as a product lead for the IT Support Professional Certificate on Coursera—a program designed to take beginner-level learners to IT job readiness in about eight months. The program is philanthropically funded by Google.org, and does not generate any revenue to Google.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Of the 10 most-used K-12 ed-tech tools tracked by management network LearnPlatform since the start of the pandemic, eight are from Google. Coursera provided every student in the world free access to the university and college courses it makes available online, attracting a 500 percent increase in enrollments.

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Kyle Pace

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Google Drive is fantastic for many reasons. The “out of the box” uses for Google Drive are what makes it great – Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Drawings. When you first go to their site you will click the Connect with Google Drive button on the home page. A very handy app!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

One in five employers report that they have hired someone with a verified certificate from a platform such as Coursera or EdX. In fact, the boom in microcredentials is being fed in large part by major companies—IBM, Google, and Amazon, to name a few—looking to grow their talent pipeline and increase the skill level of current employees.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity. For example, look at the examples of host education that Airbnb puts together.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Peter Thiel’s initiative, the Thiel Fellowship , underscores this growing perception.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

On the talent-acquisition side of the equation, demand—especially in the technology field–is so great that firms such as IBM , Google , Microsoft , Hubspot and a host of others are providing their own public-facing education and credentials. Examples include IBM’s “ new collar jobs ” effort and the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

For example, when they designed a program and ran it, they didn't know whether the results were correct or not until they got the feedback from the instructor. Join an online learning community, such as Google Educator Groups. Try free online courses from Coursera , edX , and Udacity.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Click PLAY or use the download button to listen later, and hear additional anecdotes and examples: ?. Here are some examples of limiting beliefs in academic settings: “Remote teaching during a pandemic is pointless. In addition to university settings, you might try online learning platforms such as Coursera or Linkedin Learning.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Click PLAY or use the download button to listen later, and hear additional anecdotes and examples: ?. Here are some examples of limiting beliefs in academic settings: “Remote teaching during a pandemic is pointless. In addition to university settings, you might try online learning platforms such as Coursera or Linkedin Learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. For example, over the past few years, 23 states have made computer science courses a graduation requirement and authorized special funding to promote their growth.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. For example, this young man from Mongolia. A participant in the room shared about an 8th grade Engilsh teacher using Google docs and going paperless - students walk in and go immediately to their Chromebooks because they want to see the feedback the teacher has given them.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Signature examples of this trend include Walmart’s Live Better U program , Starbucks’ College Achievement Plan and Amazon’s Career Choice program. Recently, Coursera announced a modular MOOC-based bachelor’s degree with the University of North Texas, and edX is experimenting with “ MicroBachelors ” programs as pathways to degrees.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Coursera (online education): $210.1 Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $585 million.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

For example, on teacher training days “Teacher A” must have a choice to choose an advanced session for English Essay Writing but a beginner session for technology integration. For example , a few years back “Integrating Technology” into the curriculum was the focus for my school. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Sueann Galt, STEM Coordinator Does the use of ‘Learning Menus’ increase students’ intrinsic motivation? Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn. Fortunately, the online learning space continues to evolve and there are now examples of MOOCs that are embracing different cultures and languages. The top five unsurprisingly included Coursera, edX, Udacity and FutureLearn, with a new contender, XutangX from China.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.” ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With " Jennifer Kabaker. . "With " Jennifer Kabaker. Educator Micro-credentials. "In

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). When Coursera announced its pivot to corporate training, it boasted that its certificates were the second most frequently listed on LinkedIn.

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