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

Edsurge

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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Michelle Weise: ‘We Need to Design the Learning Ecosystem of the Future’

Edsurge

How many new jobs that don’t exist today will a person have during a 150-year lifespan? Proponents of the liberal arts love to explain how an excellent general education will teach students to learn how to learn for a lifetime. can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”.

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

Edsurge

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. There were no formalized links between the activities that they would do online and how they would be assessed in their roles offline.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Teachers have spent decades learning how to reliably help students master new skills, debunk misconceptions, and connect their prior knowledge to new concepts. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX. Lesson 2: Ground yourself in the fundamentals of learning science.

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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

Edsurge

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. The first year I put my courses [on Udemy, an online course market], I had about 12 hours worth of content.

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Online Education: Will it Make Us Smarter? #SXSWedu

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How do we assess quality with all of the online education providers that are out there? Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Think a lot about how to get personalized support to individuals. Udemy - 80% male because focuses on tech space. A: Udemy has a few professors who use their online courses as part of blended learning.

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So you want to create an online class independent of a school

Bryan Alexander

They also offer classes on how to create online classes. Maven – from what I can tell, they teach you how to make an online class, then host what you create. ” Teachable – will teach you how to build an online class, give you the web interface to make it, host it, and market it, I think.

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