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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. Here are the takeaways: Coursera Already Had Cash, But Now It Can Add … More AI?
Edsurge
MAY 13, 2021
It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. They have a different set of stakeholders that Coursera doesn’t have.”
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Big changes are coming to higher education, and those changes will be bigger and more disruptive than many college leaders realize as online education grows in both size and prestige. Meanwhile, the growth of online programs could change the role of reputation and prestige in higher education.
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. They’re saying, ‘I can’t build this much online content. to help me with my online teaching.”
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 In terms of sheer numbers, Coursera has raced ahead of the pack.
ED Surge
MAY 4, 2022
To Coursera, the online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” that went public last year , this may represent an opportunity to serve as an institutional bridge for some of these universities in the struggle to stop the bleeding.
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.
Edsurge
APRIL 25, 2019
Coursera , a global online learning platform that offers courses, certificates and degrees from more than 150 universities, announced Thursday it had secured $103 million in a Series E round to expand its international reach and prepare learners for the rising challenges of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” All of its courses are developed by partner colleges or educational organizations, while Coursera handles the technology platform, marketing and other support.
ED Surge
JANUARY 26, 2022
Consider online instruction. Similarly, in their earliest days, online courses were basically lectures and readings made digital. NYU Online and California Virtual closed within two years. Overall, “primarily online institutions” in the U.S.
EdTech4Beginners
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
It changed the way we shop, work out, eat, learn… it changed the way we live. The way technology affects learning processes has an impressive effect on the overall educational system. increase in student enrolment in online courses from fall 2013 to fall 2014. The benefits of online learning are immense, but there are great advantages that cause students to drop out. The Advantages of Online Learning: The Perfect Confluence.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2020
Trustees at Wesleyan University, where I am president, have for years been singing the siren’s song to professors about the benefits of online teaching, and usually the answer they get is: “It just doesn’t work.” Related: How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The online course won’t include any heavy technical lessons, and is specifically targeting learners without experience with AI who want to better understand the technology or ways it could impact their business. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He But the course won’t be offered through a university, like many of the other online classes on Coursera.
Wired Campus
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
When Coursera, Udacity, and edX started up within four months of one another, in 2012, The New York Times declared it the year of the MOOC. Now that the clamor is dying down, researchers are gauging what actually has developed in terms of massive open online courses. A report released this week draws on a survey of Coursera students to look at their motivations and what kinds of educational and career results they are seeing.
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Andrew Ng, Stanford University computer science professor, is the co-founder of Coursera, a for-profit company that partners with colleges and universities to provide free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Stanford Professors Launch Coursera With $16M From Kleiner Perkins and NEA. Who can take a Coursera course? And here''s the Coursera team. Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller speaks about "What we''re learning from online education" on TED.
Edsurge
JULY 25, 2018
The University of Pennsylvania has offered MOOCs on Coursera for several years, but now, it’s giving the online learning platform its first Ivy League degree. The two have partnered to offer a fully-online Master’s degree in Computer and Information Technology. The online degree is also a first for the University of Pennsylvania, which until this point has not offered any fully online degree programs. MOOCs become a gateway to taking online degrees.”.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Online to the Rescue As an online dean, over two decades my philosophical position was that there should be no difference between virtual and face-to-face education. To avoid establishing an academic class system, with online the bargain-basement poor cousin of the superior designer model on campus, colleges must set the same price, too. In my new book, Going Online , I argued: “By and large, colleges and universities charge the same tuition on campus and online.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. These online courses are easy to sign up for, yet few students actually stick through and finish them.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Online education companies, including Coursera and Duolingo, also use Examity to verify the identities of students who earn certificates. Once an online test begins, the user’s computer camera can flag suspicious activities, such as odd head or eye movements, for a human proctor to check. staff—alongside its business as more and more students take online courses. The value of online credentials only exists with this technology in place.”
Edsurge
JANUARY 6, 2017
I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. Why was the fitness app so “sticky” as opposed to the online learning platforms? How could we apply the same practices to learning?
Mark Smithers
DECEMBER 2, 2013
This happened this morning when I read the tweets about Gregor Kennedy’s keynote presentation in which he talked about interactions between students and teachers in online courses. I agree with this idea that students can and should interact with experts during their learning. A big question is how this can be scaled to large numbers of students in a learning environment. How do you get SMEs to stay in the learning environment. Expert CC by Pete Prodoehl.
EdTechSandyK
OCTOBER 19, 2014
I''m taking a MOOC through Coursera and UC Irvine called Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom. One of the options for the assignment was to make an introductory video for an online course. blended learning Coursera MOOC multimedia online learning ThingLink video virtual learning This week, we had to turn in an assignment. I''ve used several video creation apps and programs before, so I thought it would be easy.
EdTechSandyK
JULY 27, 2014
Because I''ve completed an online masters degree , read extensively on virtual learning, taken an online course in facilitating virtual PD courses, and even helped design and facilitate a few online staff development courses in my school district, much of the content covered has been somewhat familiar to me. There is a way to report these in Coursera. Coursera elearning MOOC online learning onlinelearning professional development virtual learning
EdTechSandyK
JULY 3, 2014
The course is aimed at learning about K-12 online instruction, which I''m interested in knowing more about. The course is offered through Coursera , a known online learning platform which I have heard and read good things about. Perfect for summer learning, especially since I work through the summer. The course is taught by an instructor who has experience in teaching online in K-12.
Mark Smithers
DECEMBER 2, 2013
This happened this morning when I read the tweets about Gregor Kennedy’s keynote presentation in which he talked about interactions between students and teachers in online courses. I agree with this idea that students can and should interact with experts during their learning. A big question is how this can be scaled to large numbers of students in a learning environment. How do you get SMEs to stay in the learning environment. Expert CC by Pete Prodoehl.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 3, 2016
A recent move by a leading United Kingdom learning platform to issue academic credits toward a degree for students who complete open online courses could signal a forthcoming trend in the U.S. For example, edX , a collaboration between Harvard University and MIT, offers hundreds of online courses that feature university-level material on everything from computer science to chemistry, to anyone in the world who wants to study those subjects.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 23, 2020
A PhD candidate at Harvard University tilts his screen while teaching an online class from his dorm. But while all of this is widely being referred to as online higher education, most of it isn’t. Online education is using digital technologies to transform the learning experience.
Learning with 'e's
MARCH 9, 2013
After seemingly stalling for a short time, MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) seem to be graining ground again. First there were the cMOOCs, free and open online courses that focused more on learning than they did on accreditation. Learning was fun and informal, and learning was often self or peer assessed. Quasi versions of open online learning already existed, such as the incredibly popular video based Khan Academy content.
Wired Campus
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
But just watching videos — without also engaging interactively — is an ineffective way to learn, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The study, “Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport: Doing Is Better than Watching for Learning From a MOOC,” looked at a group of Georgia students in a course called “ Introduction to Psychology as a Science.” They can be a great way to get learning distributed to more people.
Edsurge
MARCH 2, 2020
Voice, after all, is one of the most natural ways to interface with technology, says Coursera’s Alexander Sanchez. As a senior product manager, Sanchez looks for innovative opportunities to maximize learning experiences across devices and technologies.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
50 Free Online Courses For Teachers: Spring 2015. Below is a list of 50 free online courses for teachers for Spring 2015, aggregated by Class Central. Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects. University of California, San Diego via Coursera. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 3: Learners and Learning. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera.
NeverEndingSearch
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
For many of us, the go-to platform for learning and sharing is video. We learn from TED Talks, the Khan Academy, as well as the growing number of videos we ourselves create for flipped. Though film media prevails on all our devices and while we’ve long asked learners to take notes or question print or digital text, up until now, there has been no easy way for us to highlight, analyze, and share what we learn from video in an in-text kinda way.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 9, 2015
An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015. Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 University of Houston System via Coursera. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Instructional Design for Mobile Learning. Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 8: Developing Relationships.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors.
Edsurge
MAY 24, 2019
When executives at tech giants Salesforce and Microsoft decided in fall 2017 to turn to an online education platform to help train potential users of products for their vendors, they turned to Pierre Dubuc and his team in fall 2017. Salesforce has worked with OpenClassrooms to create and offer a developer-training course to help people learn how to use the Salesforce platform. About 60 percent said they spend more of their budget on online learning compared to last year.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. As for the MOOC providers, Coursera is the biggest one—with the most revenue and the most number of users, and also the most number of employees. And so, a lot of people are gonna be needing to learn new skills.
Educational Technology Guy
JUNE 22, 2020
Lockdown aside, why are more teachers turning to online educational software? Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. Learning Solutions Magazine Of course, specialized online periodicals had to land on the list.
ED Surge
JUNE 14, 2022
Since at least last year, Meta has experimented with Facebook Classes, a program designed to make online instruction through its platform smoother. Facebook Classes for Events ‘Classes’ is new event type which can be selected when creating a new online event on Facebook.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
This summer yielded a surprising announcement in the world of online education: that edX, founded by Harvard University and MIT a decade ago as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online education providers, had agreed to sell its operations to a for-profit company, 2U.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway. The shift to remote work in the pandemic also fueled the purchase of low-cost subscriptions to online training libraries.
Edsurge
JUNE 29, 2021
When MIT and Harvard University started edX nearly a decade ago, it was touted as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online course providers. Covid drove an explosion in remote learning, which spurred huge investments into edX’s commercial competitors,” wrote MIT’s president L.
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