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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. So, what are its plans, and how does it see the market for online courses changing after the pandemic? They become professional at this,” he says.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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Facebook Classes has been compared to Udemy, an online course platform which raised hundreds of millions of dollars during the pandemic based on the idea that anyone can teach video classes. Meta’s learning offering could be most trouble for other tech behemoths like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, according to some speculations.

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Byju’s Becomes an Edtech ‘Decacorn’ After Fundraise from Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital

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Byju’s claims its online learning app, which offers instructional videos, live classes and practice questions, is now used by more than 57 million students. as education companies are expanding their services to reach parents and students at home, especially as remote learning may continue into the new school year.

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Master Mobile Learning: The Best Corporate Training Apps for On-the-Go Education

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The Power of Mobile Learning Flexibility and Convenience Remote Accessibility Microlearning Interactive and Engaging Content Real-Time Feedback and Progress Tracking Scalability and Cost-Effectiveness III. The Best Corporate Training Apps KITABOO Udemy for Business LinkedIn Learning IV.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

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An intelligent learning platform (ILP) for schools and universities might be the tool you’ll start using soon if you’re a teacher, academic institution leader, student, or parent. Schools and universities have been leveraging the power of edtech for quite a while now. Students get access to classes based on their interests and goals.

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Ka’Ching! 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion

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edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 This year startups that serve primarily the K-12 market raised $434 million; those targeting the postsecondary and corporate learning sector raised $593 million. billion Series F round.).

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

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Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. Why was the fitness app so “sticky” as opposed to the online learning platforms? What was happening?