Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

That MOOC space includes online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” Coursera, which went public last year , and edX, which lost its nonprofit status when it was bought by the for-profit company 2U last year. Either way, Meta’s possible entrance into the market plays into a long-standing fear of big tech in the edtech industry.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

A simple Google search , for instance, might lead to “$15 off $99 on courses” coupon codes for edX, which provides online courses from some of the world’s most well-known universities. Coursera, another giant online provider that works with traditional colleges, runs special rate promotions as well.

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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. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Study in real-time eLearning exceeds borders, covers distances between people, and fills their knowledge gaps at the same time.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

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. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some marquee employers are no longer requiring college degrees for employment — including Google, Ernst and Young, Penguin Random House, Hilton, Apple, Nordstrom, IBM, Lowe’s, Publix, Starbucks, Bank of America, Whole Foods, Costco and Chipotle, according to a January 2020 report. New degrees like the Ph.D.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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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

JUNE 11, 2020

For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Many of the investors are new to the industry, Brothers notes. There’s a lot of private capital around the world that has a new appreciation for this industry.” For general investors, edtech wasn’t sexy and it wasn’t mainstream. Coronavirus really changed that.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

As a group, we called for a reimagining of community college, including moving toward more alignment with industry and more digital options. An additional growing trend is the alignment of community college credentials and curriculum with non-degree, industry-based credentials.

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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. It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

The industries hit hardest by job losses have occurred in food services, healthcare and social services, and retail, in total representing half of the 21 million jobs lost from February through April.) Boot camps for high-tech jobs, but also middle-skills jobs in COVID-19 impacted industries such as allied healthcare and manufacturing.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Google invested $25 million in AI for Good and Microsoft added an AI for Humanitarian Action to its prior commitment. While these are positive steps, t he tech industry continues to have a diversity problem. The problem is deep-rooted, and solving it will require the industry to focus on the pipeline early—i.e., with children.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

These tech jobs cut across industry sectors and many of them can be characterized as “ middle-skill ”—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year college degree. The program is philanthropically funded by Google.org, and does not generate any revenue to Google.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Since the beginning, the tool has focused on mobile delivery on a smartphone, and the company claims it is the leading mobile learning platform globally , with more than 500 million downloads between the Apple App Store and Google Play, and 40 million monthly active users. Duolingo has a few things going for itself.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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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. Investment continues to flow to ed tech, with $803 million injected during the first six months of the year, according to the industry news website EdSurge. It has returned to charging $69.99

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Wired Campus

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Some of the biggest MOOC producers, including Daphne Koller’s Coursera, may have figured out how to get employers to accept free online courses as credentials: Get big-name companies to help design them. She says it also lets Coursera play a role in “bridging the gap” between higher education and industry.

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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. Udacity focuses on industry,” Thrun said. However, he echoed the sentiment that Udacity is more interested in working with industry partners. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses. Older students have become an increasingly important market for universities and colleges. This move to online learning is here to stay.

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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. Sean Gallagher wisely pointed out in a recent EdSurge column that “industry-based professional-learning” is taking off, necessitating that colleges and universities adapt.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

The Google campus in Mountain View, California. Businesses like Google, IBM, and Accenture have also made high-profile moves to boost skills-based hiring and remove bachelor’s degree requirements. In February, Google announced a $100 million partnership with Social Finance to help as many as 20,000 workers earn IT certificates.

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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

MAY 29, 2018

The experience is similar to how programs are actually created in the technology industry. Join an online learning community, such as Google Educator Groups. Try free online courses from Coursera , edX , and Udacity. Now, with Practice Labs, students can get the results instantly and fix their errors.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” (Edsurge, for what it’s worth, shares investors with Class Central, Udacity, and Coursera (although there’s no disclosure on that article to that end) – funny how the narratives about the “revolutionary” potential of MOOCs get spread, eh?). ” The company in question is called Sqore.

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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. The edtech industry made big strides during this era. ASU Global Freshman Academy, Coursera and edX have taken the StraighterLine model—and pushed it even further.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a national survey , we found that providing academic credit for experience and on-the-job learning was among employers’ top priorities for colleges and universities, alongside other work-integrated learning themes such industry validation and including real-world projects in the curriculum.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In other words, the digital university welcomes older, working, nontraditional learners who gravitate to online degrees to overcome workforce obstacles that prevent many without a degree from earning their fair share in today’s often-bewildering, post-industrial economy.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

It chronicles the rise and fall of Theranos, a company that promised to revolutionize the medical industry by running a complete slate of tests using only a drop of blood (rather than the more voluminous quantity of blood that can be rather frightening to have drawn). Coursera (online education): $210.1 Yuanfudao (tutoring) –- $244.2

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2019

That’s what happened to Coursera, NovoEd, Udacity and several others. Coursera, a Mountain View, Calif.-based But it also has 30 industry partners—including Google, IBM and Amazon Web Services—that offer content on the Coursera platform, says Leah Belsky, its vice president of the company’s enterprise business.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

Luminaries in the edtech industry, including Richard Culatta (ISTE CEO and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. There’s also Pluralsight, a provider of tech-training courses that analysts bet will hit the public market soon. Department of Education) and David Wiley (the.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Larry Hogan (R) declared via executive order that beginning in September 2017, the Maryland school year won’t start until after Labor Day – a decision that prompted sharp criticism from school leaders, who are accusing Hogan of favoring the tourism industry over education.” ” More via Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray. Google got into the anti-plagiarism business.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

The assumption—especially in the marketing messages from major providers like Coursera and edX—is that the winners of traditional higher education will also end up the winners in the world of online courses. In fact, three of the 10 most popular courses on Coursera aren’t produced by a college or university at all, but by a company.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” ” The Google Memo. ” Via The Guardian’s Julie Carrie Wong : “Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

More on student loans (namely, people in powerful political office with connections to the student loans industry) in the politics of education section above. That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. Google has launched a curriculum called “ Be Internet Awesome ” to encourage digital safety and citizenship.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Different industries have contributed to the trend. All of these developments are helpfully disrupting the for-profit college industry that preyed upon low-income students for far too long.

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