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The Future Belongs to Online Learners — But Only If Programs Can Help Them Succeed

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Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera, can’t hide his excitement about AI. He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” The interview culminates with an on-the-spot demonstration.

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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

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Systems change is not easy, though, and in order to transform decades of habits and practices, school leaders need strategies that encourage all stakeholders to play an active role. We believe there are lessons to be learned from our strategies.

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U. of Michigan Hints at Growth Plans for Office of Academic Innovation

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The department is hiring for more than a dozen new designer, developer and strategy jobs, including for an associate director for media technology and innovation. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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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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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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Summative and formative assessments, powered by technology, became much more commonplace and almost every school district developed a strategy around using data to measure school, teacher and student performance. ASU Global Freshman Academy, Coursera and edX have taken the StraighterLine model—and pushed it even further.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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In Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor ’s.” ” “Coursera and other purveyors of massive open online courses supposedly signaled the end of traditional credentials and, as some told it, universities. Now the company is betting big on both,” says Inside Higher Ed.