Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

PowerSchool’s journey has gone like this: It was founded in 1997, back in the early days of the web and before smartphones, tablets or social media even existed. Last week Instructure, which makes the Canvas learning management system, went public , and Coursera had its IPO in March.

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EdTech Pearson Schoology Coursera 168

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” (Edsurge, for what it’s worth, shares investors with Class Central, Udacity, and Coursera (although there’s no disclosure on that article to that end) – funny how the narratives about the “revolutionary” potential of MOOCs get spread, eh?). ” Via Bloomberg : “Twenty-five years ago, U.S.

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 57

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” ” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Smartphone Explodes in Rowan College Classroom.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

News and politics have been reshaped by social media and 24-hours news entertainment. As a result, there's a lot of crossover between what we think of as news literacy, media literacy, and digital citizenship. Each newsletter also ends with tips on incorporating the content into classrooms. E.S.C.A.P.E.

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Resources Classroom Social Media Report 97

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Selected students can now choose to download a digital version of their degree certificate to their smartphones when they graduate, in addition to receiving a paper diploma.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

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.

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47