eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

Two of the most well-known e-learning platforms – edX and Coursera – were both launched back in 2012 and were gaining new students every year. Overall, there was a positive trend in the popularity of online education, mostly due to its accessibility. Before Covid Online education wasn’t introduced during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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 then the second trend is this demographic shift.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Voice, after all, is one of the most natural ways to interface with technology, says Coursera’s Alexander Sanchez. EdSurge: Coursera decided to build an Alexa skill because you saw voice technology as a smart investment. How do you imagine Coursera students using voice to support their learning? There's no training required.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Her career journey, which led her to Coursera, a startup that develops online courses and educational programs, highlights a trend that has become more pronounced in the last few years. It’s so important that we have people who are thinking about the ethical implications of the technology we’re building today.”

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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. Coursera plans to launch 15-20 degrees by 2019, while FutureLearn has announced that they will launch 50 degrees in partnership with Coventry University. edX: 14 million users.

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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. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Manufacturing Trends.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Stay tuned in Top-quality portals for educators allow instant access to up-to-date information on EdTech trends, new product launches, and innovative teaching methods. However, EdTech companies study the market, pay attention to trending topics or the latest advancements, and cover them in their blogs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2020

Duke has long built MOOCs through its partnership with Coursera, a major platform for large-scale courses, and it also had previously negotiated an arrangement with Coursera to make all of the certificate programs and courses in Coursera’s library available to all of Duke’s students (in the U.S. As the virus spread to the U.S.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings. This skills-based hiring trend has real momentum and is also evidenced in analysis of employer job postings and other data sources.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2023

At the center of the trend is ChatGPT, which was released in November and is the fastest-growing app of all time, now claiming more than 100 million users. He says the strength of the effort is the inclusion of both education groups and the companies making the latest AI tools.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

Season of IPOs The IPO is part of a trend of edtech companies going public, though. Coursera, which sells online courses by top colleges, went public earlier this year. So, I encourage everyone to be aware of their institution’s data practices and, whenever it’s safe for you to do so, to ask questions and promote healthy dialogue."

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Two trends have helped to define the U.S. Those elite eight—Guild Education, BetterUp, Coursera, Andela, Degreed, MindTickle, EdCast and A Cloud Guru—accounted for 39 percent of edtech investing in 2019. These four went to Andela, BetterUp, Coursera and Guild Education—companies that provide workforce training and development services.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

By registration count, Coursera is still by far the largest MOOC provider in the world with over 23 million learners. Of the top five providers, only XuetangX is an non-English platform: Coursera - 23 million edX - 10 million XuetangX - 6 million FutureLearn - 5.3 Coursera has added several paid-only courses since then.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Some of the education sector’s most celebrated and best-funded startups—including Coursera, Minerva, and General Assembly—focus on providing alternatives to traditional postsecondary education, or challenging traditional approaches to higher education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). The on-demand MOOC trend has led to a drastic reduction in forum activity within MOOC cohorts. At one point Coursera boasted about a average forum response time of 22 minutes; that’s no longer the case.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. And that has private investors piqued.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2013, the American Council on Education recommended colleges accept for credit 12 specific MOOCs offered by Coursera and Udacity. Leah Belsky, senior vice president for enterprise at Coursera, also believes credit-eligible MOOCs have promise.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. Looking deeper into long-term market trends, we pay close attention to which segments are demonstrating consistent revenue growth, high gross margins, and competitive advantages — especially around return on investment (ROI) for customers and efficacy for students and schools. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

However, she also says she hopes to learn more about broader trends in the edtech market that her audience back in Beijing wants to read about. “My My company sent me here to check out the trends in the United States. When Chen started her work back in 2012, she says people were obsessed with online learning models like Coursera.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

One example of a platform facilitating the completion of a higher edification is Coursera, a cloud-based service that offers a variety of courses, as well as quite a few specializations and degrees. On his website, Cloud Storage Advice , you can find more detailed information about online storage, reviews, and hot trends.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall. US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online. Entangled No More: Guild Education Buys Edtech Venture Studio. to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online. Duolingo Just Raised $35M.

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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. Maybe that’s a trend that will stick over time.” Here’s a look at other trends experts foresee for the edtech industry as the pandemic continues to shake up education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

At Coursera, we’ve seen registered users in China climb by more than 500 percent between 2013 and 2016, crossing the one million mark in 2015. When Coursera partnered with Guokr in 2013 , we were featured with only a few other partners. At Coursera, our relationships have been more targeted. billion by 2018. McKinsey & Co.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

COVID-19 is likely to accelerate many of the trends we have been seeing in the future of work and is propelling an economic and digital transformation. Enterprise Learning In enterprise learning, here are the trends that we’re watching closely when it comes to how companies are supporting their employees.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. That ‘microlearning’ trend is really where things are going—short snippets of formal learning followed by application.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions. From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

I see four AI use and ethics trends set to disrupt classrooms and conference rooms. AI courses through traditional universities like MIT , along with online courses through organizations like Coursera , will aim to prepare more people for jobs in AI.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. edtech sector, I believed that many of the underlying trends and factors could also take off in Europe,” says Wirz. The global education technology industry is headed for a record-setting year when it comes to venture capital investments. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The University of Michigan has experience navigating intellectual property rights questions thanks in part to its prolific partnership with open-course provider Coursera, Pendse says. Experts say faculty should double-check their institutions’ policies and watch for any changes.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

After one conversation with Cable Green , my Future Trends Forum pursued this theme further on April 27th with excellent and dramatic guest Curtis Bonk. He recommended an Indiana framework project he helped build, along with Stanford’s NovoEd platform , which might be better than Coursera in terms of creating an ecology of learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As sophisticated digital skills—capabilities ironically found more commonly among students—became decisive, two new trends emerged. Coursera is reportedly nearing a valuation of $1 billion , which would make it a “unicorn” in Silicon Valley parlance. MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Like the prophetess Cassandra, their book is filled warnings for the future, and predicts that growing competition from new providers could ultimately shutter non-distinctive four-year colleges, especially in the Midwest and New England, a trend that is already under way. Watkins, president, Strada Impact.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We’ve been really excited about collaborating with edtech developers—we now have skills available to customers from Kickboard, ParentSquare, Coursera, Blackboard and Canvas. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

University of Houston System via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera. University of California, Irvine via Coursera. University of London International Programmes via Coursera. University of Michigan via Coursera.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Another important trend in this direction is a “flipped” or “inverted” admissions process in which students can prove their abilities in open online courses and microcredential programs—and articulate or stack this experience as they qualify into full degree programs.

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