Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

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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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” The for-profit: Laureate Education (which once began as the tutoring chain Sylvan Learning and is now an investor in Coursera, I always like to point out). ” Coming soon to an LMS near you… Data and “Research” Via T.H.E. Meanwhile on Campus. What would VCs do.). 2006, Tuition and Fees Up 63%.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. See: the LMS, the MOOC. These unaccredited schools argue they’re best positioned to “ close the skills gap.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. According to Edsurge , changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will soon be another “ win for ed-tech vendors.” If those two say “ the LMS market glacier is melting ,” it’s probably melting. (I’m Jen Medbery stepped down as CEO of Kickboard.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. Dan Meyer writes “Why Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans,” in a response to Chris Lusto who suggests that we do (or at least “We need GitHub for math curriculum.”) Remember Richard McKenzie?

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