Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
Credly, for example, was acquired for $200 million in January 2022, which represented a valuation multiple of 15.1x In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. LTM revenue. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.
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Edsurge
MARCH 1, 2017
Making Smart Decisions in a Crowded Edtech Market : EdSurge’s very own Leonard Medlock (Director, Concierge) will pry open some examples of districts working with Concierge and discuss strategies around how to articulate challenges, find and choose technology and successfully pilot selected tools. EdSurge 4:00 p.m.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Indeed, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has paid for some of that very press coverage, funding for example “an EdSurge Research series about how personalized learning is implemented in different school communities across the country.”
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2017
An example would be our recent announcement with the University of Southern Calif., 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." 3U, 4U, 5U, 6U.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 28, 2016
“Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” – Thomas Edison, 1922. The ghosts of broken promises.
Edsurge
JUNE 17, 2017
I’d cite a few examples of this approach but, as you can imagine, startups who take this approach rarely get off the ground and those who do don’t last long. Kaplan , Princeton Review , Tutor.com … the list goes on and on. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Parent communications platforms. Yet another Test Prep Provider.
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