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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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In a world where the largest software vendors like Apple and Google don’t write the apps, we are at a tipping point as the worldwide gap widens between skills delivered by the current educational systems and those required by the digital economy.

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Are Free Educational Videos Worth It?

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The majority of teachers who responded to our survey reported they tend to search for videos online using search engines such as YouTube (83%) and Google (61%). Common hits are videos from dispersed free and paid-for educational videos websites such as TEDx , Udemy , Khan Academy , and Coursera.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Coursera (online education): $210.1 Udemy (skills training): $173 million. Yuanfudao (tutoring): $250 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $200 million. Peilian.com (music education): $150 million. DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. Yuanfudao (tutoring) –- $244.2

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Hack Education Weekly News

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That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. Udemy has a new CEO : “Kevin Johnson, former CEO of EBates, a marketplace for coupons and shopping discount deals.” Google has launched a curriculum called “ Be Internet Awesome ” to encourage digital safety and citizenship.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.” ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics. “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” Spoiler alert: no.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain. Other updates: an Expeditions app, quizzes in Google Forms, a partnership with TES , a physical coding project. .” A screen sharing app.

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The Business of Education Technology

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Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. Online education (admittedly, a very generic category): Investments include Udemy ($60,000,000), DigiSchool ($15,700,000), MasterClass ($15,000,000), UNICAF ($12,000,000), OpenClassroom ($6,740,000). The learning management system is a piece of “enterprise” software after all.