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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

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The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.” That might include doing research, building tech tools or helping manage organizations.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. million in 2019 to 18.6

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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Scaling Digital Learning with the CWiC Framework : Advocates of digital learning tout its potential to impact student success—but much of that depends on how institutions implement, choose and incorporate digital products with students and faculty. Thursday, March 9 K-12 9:30 a.m.

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Higher Ed Has Now Split Into Dual Economies: Online and Traditional

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A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. But MOOC-based degrees are just at the starting line of what appears to be a rush to hang discount tags on online degrees.

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Microcredentials and Macro-dollars: How an Online Ad Led 2U's Chip Paucek to Make a $120M Bet

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As you think about the future of digital education, where do you see microcredentials fitting in? That’s what the former MOOCs [such as Coursera and Udacity] have driven toward for a business model and they’re getting some revenue and scale out of it. I did say to the CEO of Kaplan, who's a good friend, "Welcome to our space."

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” ” “Can Startup College Minerva Reinvent The Ivy League Model For The Digital Age?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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