Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

not just deliver software, but also be able to engage with big brands and marry our interests.” Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Coursera CEO Rick Levin. Bank of America, for example, is a major sponsor of EverFi’s financial literacy program. Making this model work, Wincup says, is one of the company’s “trade secrets.to

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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

JULY 29, 2020

While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. Software will reshape learning both in the classroom and out well beyond the pandemic.” And that has private investors piqued. In the first half of 2020, U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Knowledge organizations, ranging from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, have entered the postsecondary marketplace, offering content, instruction and certification. It’s a nearly $4 billion industry worldwide with leaders such as 2U, Academic Partnerships, Bisk, Noodle, Pearson and Wiley Education Services.

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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. This could include new firms, service models and software tools that are more tailored to community colleges’ needs and offerings.

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 209

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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Plagiarism detection software originated at universities. And online test proctoring software has roots at universities as well.

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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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Training Education Learning Industry 166

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry.

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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. Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Who Benefits?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The global education technology industry is headed for a record-setting year when it comes to venture capital investments. companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. where devices and software remain in high demand. In the U.S.,

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 108

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The biggest occurred when instructional designers, long employed by industry, joined online academic teams, working closely with faculty to upload and integrate interactive and engaging content. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 124

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Before, our only options were to send people to a training, sit in a course, and learn the material–whether from a university or a week-long certification,” says Shelly Holt, vice president of global learning for SAP, a leading enterprise-software company. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

“We specifically do not advertise any educational degrees—our website and other materials identify and clearly define a “Nanodegree Program” as a non-degree, non-occupational practical program leading to an industry-recognized, and in some cases corporate-sponsored, completion recognition.”. 61 to 136A.71), 61 to 136A.71),

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Kyle Pace

JUNE 14, 2023

Prepares for the Future: Coding is an invaluable skill in an era where technology pervades every industry. Whether a child aspires to be a software engineer or a scientist, coding will likely be a critical part of their professional life. They can design their own digital art, invent games, and even create interactive stories.

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Khan Academy Robotics Coursera Course 52

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

I am looking at three trends: assessments that can tell a student's ability and allow you to personalize programs, coding hardware and software, and new types of schools like ALT Schools,” says Chen. When Chen started her work back in 2012, she says people were obsessed with online learning models like Coursera.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Some of the education sector’s most celebrated and best-funded startups—including Coursera, Minerva, and General Assembly—focus on providing alternatives to traditional postsecondary education, or challenging traditional approaches to higher education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms. A more Amazon-like experience.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Merit America provided a stipend that helped him afford a bus pass to attend job counseling sessions while he completed a 13-week Coursera program to earn a Google IT certification. His first job was a $45,000 “tier one” tech support position with a health care software developer.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.”

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 157

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.

Digital Badges 177

Digital Badges Coursera Learning Industry 177

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

A most disruptive year to schools and society proved lucrative for the education industry, particularly for those raising private capital. edtech industry. In the big picture, the surge of capital in the edtech industry is not an anomaly. In 2020, U.S. education technology startups raised over $2.2 million in 2020.

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 191

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

For example, Microsoft offers certification programs to professionals who wish to gain mastery of one or more of their varied software products. MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera , edX and individual participating universities.

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Khan Academy MOOC Course Software 255

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). Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

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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MOOC Kaplan Coursera Report 94

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” These are the technology industry’s dragons.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

That’s what the former MOOCs [such as Coursera and Udacity] have driven toward for a business model and they’re getting some revenue and scale out of it. So, I don't think it's an appropriate time in the evolution of our industry to talk about share gains. It's not just software code. They seem to have a lot of momentum.

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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. Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Something about "learning engineers".

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” ” Chris Lohse is the new head of the Education Technology Industry Network , the ed-tech division of the Software & Information and Industry Association. ” Imperial College London has joined edX.

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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

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. 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.” Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.”

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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. Edsurge plugs Entangled Solutions ’ recent report on** income sharing agreements**. ” “Education Dept.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Industry, not the child’s imagination as Seymour would have it, largely dictates the shape and direction of the CS trend. If there is a gap, it’s perhaps the one that persists in STEM education and in the technology industry more broadly – that is, these remain overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

We can speculate, I suppose, about what the analogous battles might be in education – which corporation will sue which corporation, claiming they “own” learning data and learning roadmaps and learning algorithms and learning software IP. But universities are still bound by accreditation (and by tradition).

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Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

” Challenging forced arbitration clauses has been one way the CFPB has taken on the student loan industry. Via Buzzfeed : “A Close Ally Of Mike Pence Is Helping The Shady Student Debt Relief Industry.” Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( ” The Business of Student Loans.

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