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In New Push to Grow Online Degree Offerings, Coursera Changes Revenue-Sharing Options

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Ten years ago when two Stanford professors started Coursera , many of the big-name colleges the company partnered with offered few online courses. And the courses they put on Coursera were done mainly as goodwill outreach—free offerings to help spread knowledge to those who couldn’t afford a campus experience.

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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

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EdSurge talked with Coursera’s CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, today to ask him what this unicorn company, valued at more than $3.6 Here are the takeaways: Coursera Already Had Cash, But Now It Can Add … More AI? The mix of ways Coursera reaches students has led them to claim 77 million registered learners on the platform. There are 1.3

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Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall

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education technology company in 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. To date, Coursera has raised $464 million, according to CEO Jeff Maggioncalda. Coursera for Campus launched last October.

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Will the Pandemic Lead More Colleges to Offer Credit for MOOCs? Coursera is Pushing for It.

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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. So Coursera sees a new business opportunity: to sell the courses it developed to colleges that want to use them as part of for-credit courses for their own students.

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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

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Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. But in a new effort announced Thursday, called Coursera for Campus, the company will begin selling access to its complete library of courseware to any college to use, at around $400 per student.

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Coursera’s IPO Filing Shows Growing Revenue and Loss During a Pandemic

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This afternoon, Coursera filed its S-1 paperwork , offering a first look at how the Mountain View, Calif.-based Coursera reported $293.5 Also driving that growth is Coursera for Campus, which the company launched in late 2019 to let colleges offer its library of online courses to their students.

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How Voice-Enabled Technology is Changing the Contours of Higher Education

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Marissa Mierow It’s no secret that voice-enabled technology is taking off in the domestic sphere, but how is this increasingly robust technology impacting education? How do you see voice-enabled technology changing the contours of education? Voice is the most natural interface; it is our primary mode of communication.