Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. In these cases their deals are placed in the “All other” category.) Source: EdSurge. Source: EdSurge Private Equity’s Presence.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” Google Search is biased, as Safiya Noble demonstrates in her book The Algorithms of Oppression. And on and on and on. ”).
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. If so, what are they?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Vive la MOOC révolution. Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 23, 2019
ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. Mind reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton was acquired by Wiley for $17 million — LOL — having raised over $180 million. Google was fined $170 million for violating children’s privacy on YouTube. Google got into the anti-plagiarism business. LOL LOL LOL.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” The non-speakers: James Damore, the fired Google engineer, and Lucian Wintrich, a journalist with Gateway Pundit.
Hack Education
JANUARY 26, 2018
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.” ” There’s more MOOC news in the certification section below. I’m also putting some MOOC news in the job training section.
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