Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Udemy (skills training): $173 million. 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.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. Udemy has a new CEO : “Kevin Johnson, former CEO of EBates, a marketplace for coupons and shopping discount deals.” The MOOC provider has now raised $210 million total. ” From the HR Department.

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Education Coursera MOOC Udemy 46

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain. MOOCs losing their mojo?

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.” ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics. Spoiler alert: no.). ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40