Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Study in real-time eLearning exceeds borders, covers distances between people, and fills their knowledge gaps at the same time.

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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 24, 2017

These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). At one point Coursera boasted about a average forum response time of 22 minutes; that’s no longer the case. Those who don’t meet the deadline could pay an upgrade fee and earn the certificate.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

There are also new technologies that have yet to meet their potential, she adds: “There is some skepticism around AI and machine learning, but there are substantive pieces of technology being built, and education is just in the first inning of productively applying them to improve teaching and learning.” billion in 2017.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Online teachers have to perform their job and meet the needs of their students virtually.That being the case, success in online teaching requires a slightly different set of skills besides the mainstream teaching skills. Coursera, edX, Udemy, are good places to start looking for specialized teaching courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. Broward College in Florida has been a leader in integrating industry certifications into its degree programs.

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 215

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Charles Severance was one of the first professors at the University of Michigan to give the massive open online courses (MOOC) platform Coursera a try. I’m making [the class] funny and making it engaging and teaching [students], but I don’t get to meet these people.” His first class was on internet history, technology and security.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. New Options One major reason is the explosion of relatively high-quality, free or low-cost professional learning options in recent years.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Companies like Coursera, which helps universities build and access online courses, have ridden the momentum from new registrations to secure a $130 million investment in July. There are a lot of stresses and fears… and we want to help them meet the moment,” he says. According to the EdSurge database, U.S.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This could be anything from a high-quality webcam for his online meetings to a smart assistant like Google Nest or Amazon Echo. Coursera, Edx, Udemy, are all great places to find online courses. Tech Gadgets for the Home Office How about a smart device that can make his work-from-home experience smoother?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. to develop a series of surveys to embed in their MicroMasters programs and in a Coursera Specialization. It’s true they stopped making headlines a while ago, but they have hardly abated.

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Wired Campus

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Some of the biggest MOOC producers, including Daphne Koller’s Coursera, may have figured out how to get employers to accept free online courses as credentials: Get big-name companies to help design them. She says it also lets Coursera play a role in “bridging the gap” between higher education and industry.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

EdSurge put that question to Engageli’s co-founder, Dan Avida, a venture capitalist who was an early board member of Coursera—the online course giant that his wife, Daphne Koller, co-founded. What’s wrong with the videoconferencing tools that have become standard and familiar, like Zoom and Google Meet or Microsoft Teams?

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 20, 2019

Conduct the video search on your trusted video resource list such as Youtube , TEDx , Udemy , Khan Academy , and Coursera. Select a video that meets your requirements identified earlier. Select a video that meets your requirements identified earlier. Find different video options that may work.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. Our thesis is around meeting unmet learning demand for learning opportunities,” offers Wirz, whether they happen in schools or are “driven by economic imperatives or leisurely activities.” In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s not just, ‘I pick up my tray and I go here and I meet with my advisor,’ then, ‘I pick up my tray and I go to an online lecture.’ But Barrett said that these days students have plenty of new educational options that are high quality, including low-cost microcredentials from MOOC providers like Coursera, edX and Udacity. “It

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Despite their often limited budgets, the innovative nature and adaptability of community colleges makes them well-positioned to meet the training needs for aspiring tech professionals. For community colleges, continuing to partner with industry is a natural extension of their mission to provide training and pathways to employment.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

At the most recent ASU GSV Summit, machine-learning pioneer Andrew Ng (and co-founder of Coursera) warned audience members to steer their children away from becoming radiologists. which forecasted that the jobs of telemarketers, umpires, and even fashion models would become computerized. So, what is higher ed supposed to do?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

At residential campuses, some told me they barely left their dorm rooms; others said their classes never even meet on Zoom and amounted to little more than independent study. So, like it or not, here comes more online education – exactly what many of the students I spoke with during the pandemic didn’t like and don’t want.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

One in five employers report that they have hired someone with a verified certificate from a platform such as Coursera or EdX. But while employers are critical constituents, we must ensure that in our rush to meet their needs, we aren’t forgetting the learner.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera. And, perhaps employers will be more willing to fund job-related microcredentials that meet training needs but still provide employees with the portability of credentials that they desire.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The likes of Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, MasterClass, Lynda, and Pluralsight have together raised more than $1 billion and represent combined enterprise value of more than $5 billion. This dichotomy is not lost on investors. And this is just online.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

The largest funding rounds of 2017 and 2018, and the most richly-capitalized companies overall, include Coursera, Degreed, Andela, MasterClass, and Trilogy Education Services—which for example each represent services or platforms to help meet the talent challenge, rather than, say, companies that offer software or tools to traditional colleges.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Before becoming too beholden to the particular features (or limitations) of a technology platform, try to think bigger and more creatively about how you can meet the needs of your learners. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX. Lesson 8: Collect student feedback.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Notes from the General Discussion and Audience Questions To get uninterested teachers using technology, start with a need and show how tech can meet it. Meet people where they are, face-to-face. Applies to U.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

If anything, what people are mistaking now for online education — long class meetings in videoconference rooms, professors in their bathrobes, do-it-yourself tools made of rubber bands and cardboard — appears to be making them less, not more, open to it.

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Tools Coursera Course Survey 119

Wired Campus

DECEMBER 21, 2015

As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In. Meet the New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram. App Gives Students an Incentive to Keep Their Phones Locked in Class. Another Use for Yik Yak on Campus? Cheating on Exams. 3 Things Academic Leaders Believe About Online Education.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Parents never show up to meetings and events. As educators, holding limiting beliefs is doubly damaging because not only do they hinder us from setting and achieving our own goals, they hold students back from meeting their goals and reaching their potential. I remember hearing some of my colleagues say, . “I I can’t teach these kids.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Parents never show up to meetings and events. As educators, holding limiting beliefs is doubly damaging because not only do they hinder us from setting and achieving our own goals, they hold students back from meeting their goals and reaching their potential. I remember hearing some of my colleagues say, . “I I can’t teach these kids.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. In order to complete her homework assignments, she spent hours each night re-teaching herself the material, with help from Coursera and YouTube tutorials.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. But the most interesting developments are happening a little further downstream.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

Students would meet in virtual classrooms where they would discuss course material using videoconferencing technology. In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. The online program, to be offered by the Yale School of Medicine, would aim to replicate its residential program for training physicians’ assistants.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Teachers will write their own questions and goals that they want to meet each fall and spring. November advises superintendents to have a student advisory panel that they meet with them once a month. Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

“The creation of EdX was positioned as a direct response to those dirty, grubby capitalists from Stanford who were going to privatize higher education with Coursera,” he wrote, referring to the venture-backed competitor that went public this year. Universities that paid into Coursera were paying fees to a vendor. It was a public good.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

Coursera is quietly testing elements of a new strategy, with the goal of moving from a platform for courses to a broader career-building service. Two Stanford University professors founded Coursera about five years ago, amid a wave of hype that free online courses could one day replace residential undergraduate colleges.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. In those days the platform was called Venture Lab, and 78,000 students from 150 countries signed up for its first course, which was on technology entrepreneurship.

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