Edsurge
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. As for the MOOC providers, Coursera is the biggest one—with the most revenue and the most number of users, and also the most number of employees. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 1, 2021
We should pause and ask which approach really, truly, provides access to more people – (1) the Python for Everybody GitHub repo with an excellent README and all the 5R permissions or (2) the ready-to-use version of Python for Everybody on Coursera? Lumen’s mission is to “enable unprecedented learning for all students.”
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Edsurge
JULY 6, 2017
MOOC providers have learned a lot in the last five years, and they’re now more certain about who their real audience is—and they’re not the dabblers and lifelong learners who take courses just for curiosity’s sake. At the recently concluded EMOOCs conference , the then CEO of Coursera, Rick Levin, shared his thoughts on this shift.
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.)
Edsurge
MAY 24, 2018
Faculty assign homework to expose students to a new concept before they arrive to class, and use class time to ask questions and do more-active learning. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We But a lot of learning happens because of the fact that we all make mistakes.”
Edsurge
JULY 28, 2021
billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S.
Edsurge
MARCH 29, 2017
Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it. And he shares what lessons he’s learned working at a startup. EdSurge: I’ve heard folks at Coursera refer to your courses and microcredential programs as “products.” How’s that going?
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