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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? For one thing, more robot teaching-tech behind the scenes. “We For one thing, more robot teaching-tech behind the scenes. “We

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” So is “personalized learning” really a “trend”?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) “What Does Personalized Learning Mean? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (deeplearning.ai

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” ” Willerer was previously at Netflix (just to give you an idea of the meaning of “personalization” in the headline).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Gates , Zuckerberg Philanthropies Team Up on Personalized Learning ,” Education Week reports. The “personalized learning” company has raised $6.8 Kiron and Red Hat have joined edX. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing Coursera for Governments & Nonprofits.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.