Edsurge
MARCH 31, 2021
Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company). There are 1.3
Edsurge
OCTOBER 15, 2020
When two Stanford University professors started Coursera in 2012, the focus was on building free online courses to bring teaching from elite colleges out to the world. But the pandemic has forced those selective colleges to embrace online learning like never before, and now all types of colleges are teaching online.
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Edsurge
JULY 17, 2020
Coursera, which provides online courses to higher-ed institutions, businesses and government agencies, has raised $130 million in a Series F round led by NEA. Previous investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared also participated. Coursera for Campus launched last October.
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. The latter, which could offer cheaper, more convenient and more established online courses, experienced user growth.
Edsurge
MARCH 5, 2021
This afternoon, Coursera filed its S-1 paperwork , offering a first look at how the Mountain View, Calif.-based based online education provider is faring as it prepares to go public. Coursera reported $293.5 Shortly after the outbreak, Coursera made this available for free to higher-ed institutions until Sept.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
The typical employee has one percent of their time available for learning, according to research by Bersin by Deloitte. When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices.
Edsurge
JANUARY 1, 2018
Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. Well, at least partially open.
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