Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Pitchbook reported a similar trend, noting that the pandemic’s “impact on aggregate VC activity was hardly apocalyptic,” with healthcare, digital enterprise and consumer-service startups attracting plenty of capital. Source: EdSurge U.S. edtech investment trends largely mirror patterns in other sectors. What’s the Big Deal? “How

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here is a list of the top five MOOC providers by registered users: Coursera: 30 million users. Coursera saw paying users rise by 70 percent this year. Meanwhile, Udacity reports more than 50,000 paying students enrolled in its Nanodegree programs. edX: 14 million users. XuetangX: 9.3 million users. FutureLearn: 7.1

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Yet only 1,750 out of 373,000 people who enrolled paid to receive college credit for finishing a course and fewer than 150 pursued full degrees at ASU, reports Inside Higher Ed. In 2013, the American Council on Education recommended colleges accept for credit 12 specific MOOCs offered by Coursera and Udacity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Only about a quarter of these firms reported an increase in paying users. Its server costs rose, and it had to hire more people to provide customer support and teacher training. Only about a quarter reported an increase in paying users. Related: Another problem with shifting education online: cheating.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. Companies should no longer assume a trained teacher is available to offer assistance. The positive report sent stock values soaring more than 30 percent.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Most likely, these new options will emerge as a low-cost alternative to employer-provided training. At a recent conference, Wharton Online reported that it had seen 1.1-million to develop a series of surveys to embed in their MicroMasters programs and in a Coursera Specialization.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Early reports indicate that many blue-chip companies have begun to freeze or rescind hiring offers to graduating students. Likewise, employer spending on training—which often includes university-provided offerings— tends to decline in recessions. In addition, internships are being canceled.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the teachers we’ve spoken to report extreme and prolonged stress, which induces hyperactivity in the neurological system and lifelong susceptibility to stress. As humans, we have evolved to handle short-term stress—hormones are released, allowing us to respond successfully to the crisis and then turn off at the tap.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

businesses reported difficulty finding appropriately trained workers, up from 32 percent reported in 2015. 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. And this is just online.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

By some estimates, within a decade, only 30 to 40 percent of “college students” will physically attend a college to earn a degree, while many of the rest will shop for chunks of education and training that allow them to take the next step in their careers while also stacking toward an eventual degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations at the Student Borrower Protection Center Make School’s disastrous downfall, as documented by a Student Borrower Protection Center report provided to The Hechinger Report, should sound alarm bells about partnerships like this, advocates for students warn. Credit: Amanda J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

Conceiving, planning, designing and developing a genuine online course or program can consume as much as a year of faculty training and collaboration with instructional designers, and often requires student orientation and support and a complex technological infrastructure. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” Local and highly affordable, community colleges are engines of economic opportunity. That presents both an opportunity and a challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

But to train this workforce effectively, we’ll need to change the way we approach education. In the past, we’ve often thought about formal education as the acquisition of broad skills at a fixed point in time, with training ending at about age 18, 22 or later for those who need advanced degrees. We are lifelong learners.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

Leaders in the sector, including 2U, Coursera and Keypath, never made a profit on the activity, and Pearson and Wiley sold off their OPM offshoots in recent months when the going got rough. Once they got the hang of it, I hoped, colleges could then jump off their training wheels and go online entirely on their own.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

And it will be interesting to see whether people will try to use these low-cost options as a replacement for an in-person bootcamp, which cost an average of $11,400, according to Course Report. Codecademy officials say that the pilot phase of the paid offerings over the past 18 months has already brought in $6 million in revenue.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

Nonetheless, it’s not clear if the schools – or the teachers – are ready, Tan notes in her piece for The Hechinger Report and The Times Picayune. “We From Yale to Coursera. The program will allow teachers to track development milestones on a computer for children up to age 4, notes Sarah Tan. Digital Learning Day cometh. Guernsey said.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

“ 18 States Are Suing Betsy DeVos Over For-Profit College Rules ,” Buzzfeed reports. ” “College made millions by tricking Indigenous people, court finds,” The Guardian reports. Claremont Theology might join Willamette University , Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

A report from CB Insights showed that investments for all venture-backed U.S. Roblox is followed by Coursera and CampusLogic, which respectively offer online courses and financial management tools to colleges and universities. And investors saw in that market opportunities,” says Pope. These pathways may be in greater demand now.

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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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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Being an educational technology trainer and an educator for more than a decade, I have had a fair share of training and professional development sessions both on giving and receiving end. For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. Coursera (online education): $210.1 Udemy (skills training): $173 million.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. reported that only 5.5% If you run a vocational or workforce development program, put the first module of your training online and see who completes it. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21. complete multiple MOOCs. of people are.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia. However, recent studies reveal significant challenges, including low completion rates and poorly trained teachers.

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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. That’s what happened to Coursera, NovoEd, Udacity and several others. Coursera, a Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” More on the report from Pacific Standard. ” “ Turkey has reacted angrily to suggestions that it might tone down its attack on Saudi Arabia over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi if the United States agrees to extradite an opponent of President Erdogan,” The Times reports. on Coursera.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” “Three months after the former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexual assault, he was released on Friday,” NPR reports. More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). The states in question: Texas and Nevada. ” More via Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Raise $146.1

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Government Accountability Office said in a report Wednesday.” ” “Former Lake Michigan College President Jennifer Spielvogel is suing LMC and its Board of Trustees for alleged wrongful termination,” The Herald-Palladium reports. ” Via the AP : “Gov. ” “Like it’s a TV show.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. . million people since 2003.” Google) biotech company, Calico.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Via Politico : “ DeVos : Schools should decide whether to report undocumented kids.” “The Department of Education on Wednesday announced the process by which borrowers who had made ineligible payments for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program could be reconsidered for the benefit,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Asked About Discrimination , Betsy DeVos Said This 14 Times,” NPR reports : “Schools that receive federal funds must follow federal law.” said Thursday that he is still part of a higher education initiative for President Donald Trump,” Politico reports. That seems to be Coursera ’s business model.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

. “Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. This Bootcamp Will Train Sales Chops (and Even Pay For It).” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” The Business of Job Training.

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