Marketplace K-12

APRIL 29, 2019

The Seek Group, which creates and manages online education and employment businesses, has made significant investments in Coursera and The Open University's FutureLearn. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Ed-Tech Platforms Coursera, FutureLearn Get Major Funding Infusions appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera, can’t hide his excitement about AI. He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” And it’s not the only high-tech strategy that Coursera employs to shepherd users through courses.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2023

In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

A “Facebook Classes Instructor” group shows roughly 3,100 people signed up to trial the program. If you’re interested in learning to code: I’m creating a Facebook group where I and others are going to teach free classes - enough to get you to the point you could start charging a bit, so you can get paid to learn the rest.

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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. EdSurge recently hosted a meetup where we invited a group of experts to weigh in on those questions, and they offered some fascinating insights. And how are universities responding?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Singapore-based company Genius Group has turned some of its attention to the U.S. Genius Group also partnered with NASA to help students find opportunities for start-ups to commercialize the agency’s technology patents. EdSurge: Our readers may not be familiar with Genius Group. edtech market recently. Currently, it has 2.7

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

But SEEK Group , an Australian operator of online educational and employment services, has doubled down on massive open online courses. Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn. audiences).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Coursera, a company that hosts massive online courses and degrees, is the latest entrant among a growing number of online education providers that are entering the medical space. In terms of the existing [medical] workforce, there is clearly a shift in the skill set that is necessary,” says Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The groups surveyed more than 3,000 people between the age of 20 and 34 who left college without a degree. They're very high-performing students that say, ‘I've taught myself this, I've gone online and taken a course on Coursera or whatever. Why did these students leave? They'll build their own mini-businesses. They'll resell things.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Designed by Google employees as integrated courses and embedded in the school day by teachers, each certificate is available on Coursera and includes practice and graded assessments and quizzes or writing assignments to ensure rigor and mastery.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

The GSV 150 is an impressive group of edtech companies that are leveraging AI and driving positive outcomes for learners and society.” “The world is adapting to seismic shifts from generative AI,” says GSV Ventures Partner Luben Pampoulov. “AI Interested parties can view the full 2024 GSV 150 list at [link].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. In some cases he decides to eventually take the whole thing, and Coursera waives the usual fee for him to get a certificate if he finishes.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. Not all acquisitions were cheered on by investors, though.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here is a list of the top five MOOC providers by registered users: Coursera: 30 million users. Coursera saw paying users rise by 70 percent this year. Now, students from this group of universities can earn credit for MOOCs offered anywhere in the system. edX: 14 million users. XuetangX: 9.3 million users. FutureLearn: 7.1

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

He’s also backed Coursera and Course Hero, two privately held edtech companies that are each valued at more than $1 billion. And even though there are unicorns—Coursera, Course Hero, Duolingo and Udemy among them—they may not command those levels of dollars from public-market investors. Moe has picked some winners in education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

And Coursera, the venture-backed startup that also works with colleges to develop online courses, says it has added 50 new “specializations” (series of courses that add up to a noncredit certificate) in the past year. One example is the University of California at Davis Extension, which offers five “Specializations” through Coursera.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And Facebook (er, I guess now Meta) announced that it would partner with Coursera and edX to help push Meta’s curriculum in augmented and virtual reality, which it calls the Spark AR Curriculum.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

Coursera, another giant online provider that works with traditional colleges, runs special rate promotions as well. One Reddit group is devoted to sharing links to coupon codes for free Udemy courses. (A But what has this wave of online bargains meant for perceptions of higher education?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Coursera, for example, reported that as of the end of 2020, it had grown to having more than 77 million registered learners on its platform from more than 190 countries—although not all of those people are taking courses for credit or are seeking credentials.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

And the system uses a metaphor that students sit at “tables,” meaning that instructors can easily organize students into groups that can have their own breakout discussions. I understand that Engageli has a feature that can match students into small breakout groups that are diverse. The system is aimed at colleges. Absolutely.

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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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Wired Campus

JUNE 5, 2015

Last spring a group of university leaders announced a bold, new project intended to help colleges gain more control of their online course platforms, as they increasingly turned to providers like Coursera or edX. A year later some observers are wondering what the group has actually accomplished, and where the consortium is headed.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 20, 2019

Ability to organize (67%) – Permit teachers to organize videos into groups and store videos. Brainstorming additional activities leading up to the video or after the video such as a poll, quiz, summary, homework, or group activity. The solution teachers want needs to: 1. 6-step guide: how to use educational videos effectively.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Such are the tools developed and offered by Examity , a provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. Online education companies, including Coursera and Duolingo, also use Examity to verify the identities of students who earn certificates.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Now, MOOC providers like edX and Coursera are looking towards new (and sometimes paid) offerings, as well as so-called “MicroBachelors” degrees designed to break up undergraduate credential into discrete components. So what do the top courses on MOOC platforms like edX and Coursera tell us about where teaching is heading?

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They watched as other groups—from film production studios to the federal government—received daily, precautionary COVID-19 tests to ensure their health and safety. Educators have recounted to us that they feel forgotten and undervalued, overworked and under-resourced. over the past nine months.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

participated along with Reach Capital, Strada Education Network, EduLab, Entangled Group, Atrium and Arizona State University’s ScaleU. Coursera raised $103 million this year and became a unicorn, and Lambda School raised $30 million. million round of funding for the startup. It has really exceeded our expectations,” she says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. Earlier this year, a group of Finnish investors launched the Nordic region’s first edtech venture capital fund. The global education technology industry is headed for a record-setting year when it comes to venture capital investments. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Nelson says the new version of the system lets professors quickly divide a large class into groups of up to 12 students. The requirement of filling out the worksheet, or doing some other activity like a poll or quiz, makes sure students in breakout groups stay on task, Nelson says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” As a group, we called for a reimagining of community college, including moving toward more alignment with industry and more digital options.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

If we put it on a black to white spectrum, we can group countries into at least three shades: whitish, grayish, and blackish. MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates. Denmark, for example, would belong to the whitish part.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

If we put it on a black to white spectrum, we can group countries into at least three shades: whitish, greyish, and blackish. MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Udacity, have massive numbers of enrolled students in their courses, yet a shamefully low number of graduates. Denmark, for example, would belong to the whitish part.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. Community colleges are staking a claim in the territory of online course marketplaces.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In the past, experts have made big projections for the global edtech market, with some groups estimating as much as $252 billion pouring into the market by 2020. The after-school learning centers (such as TAL Education Group ) where students study for exams and get extra tutoring, is where Chen focuses most of her coverage.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX. Or what if they shared career services resources so that a group of small colleges could better compete against larger universities for the attention of companies looking to hire.

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