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Udemy, an Online Course Platform Where Anyone Can Teach, Keeps Raising Money. What's Next?

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Udemy has become one of the best-funded companies in edtech, having raised another $80 million earlier this year, bringing its total raised to nearly $300 million. Those were some questions we brought to Udemy’s CEO, Gregg Coccari, in a recent interview. They become professional at this,” he says. They work at this every day.

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Upskilling Trend Brings Coupons, ‘Flash Sales’ and Other Marketing Gimmicks to Higher Ed

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“Now is the time,” said a recent promotional email from Udemy, a library of online courses. There are even memes marking this trend, like one that went viral on Reddit showing a still frame from a cartoon depicting a turtle labeled “a New Udemy course” joining a group of other turtles labeled “All my unfinished courses.”

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US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online

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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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Smartphones in Education: Redirecting Distraction with Mobile Learning

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Likewise, Udemy is an extremely popular learning resource that offers over 100,000 classes from top instructors, interactive quizzes, and the ability to track student progress. The post Smartphones in Education: Redirecting Distraction with Mobile Learning appeared first on ViewSonic Library.

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Outschool Is In, Raising $45M to Beam Live, Small-Group Classes to Homes

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In the edtech industry, venture capital flows where business grows, and that’s been the case for the San Francisco-based company. For adults, there’s Masterclass and Udemy. Its wallet has gotten a little bigger, too, thanks to a $45 million Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. To date, the company has raised $55 million.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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Our higher education system formed around libraries. 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. Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions.

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?Filling the Other Skills Gap

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The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. 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.

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