Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2022

A year earlier, Stanford University computer scientist Sebastien Thrun, co-founder of commercial MOOC provider Udacity, outdid Christiansen, predicting an even bleaker future for face-to-face classes, claiming that in 50 years streaming lectures will so subvert conventional higher ed that only 10 U.S. colleges will remain standing.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

More than 70 efforts are underway around the world to use blockchain technology in education, and most set their sights on better connecting people with job opportunities, according to a new report published by the American Council on Education. Department of Education. These include: the costs of setting up ledger systems.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The biggest occurred when instructional designers, long employed by industry, joined online academic teams, working closely with faculty to upload and integrate interactive and engaging content. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) In some conventional courses, MOOCs also supplement on-campus curricula.

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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. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

There’s also the ASU GSV Summit, which Quazzo runs and is now known in the industry as the place where deals get done. Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public. There’s even an MBA program. Several past GSV investments have turned into a big payday.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He offers through Coursera, which Ng teaches, have had wide appeal on the MOOC website. In June, EdSurge reported that three Coursera’s top 10 most popular courses were taught by him.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

Coursera reported $293.5 Coursera reported that roughly half of its new degree students in 2020 were previously registered Coursera learners, and that its average student acquisition cost was under $2,000, which is lower than the industry standard, according to Gallagher. million, up 43 percent from the previous year.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Initially, it was dedicated to the gaming industry, but now it has extended to other industries and we cannot ignore its uses in education. I mean, if Harvard can teach its most popular MOOC in VR , then there has to be a way for LMS vendors to support these type of classes in their products as well. Seems complicated right?

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

In the future,” he wrote, “I envision three tiers of education that look a lot like the music industry of today. This compensation structure may seem common (or to some even fair) in other industries such as entertainment. And according to a 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation, 67 percent of instructional designers are female.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

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Perry Hewitt

MARCH 25, 2016

A new Pew report explores U.S. But 80% of adults having “not much awareness” of MOOCs was higher than I might have imagined. era, you probably know that the pornography industry was instrumental in driving the video serving technology that made all video online possible. 1 – Use a password manager.).

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

“They want to serve in their own locales, but their markets need to go farther,” says Holly Zanville, a research professor and co-director of the Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy at George Washington University who recently published a commissioned report about Unmudl. The colleges didn’t want to feel defensive about that.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Meanwhile, PayPal, L’Oreal, AirFrance/KLM and a number of other companies are working with Coursera , a provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), to give employees access to online instruction. The post OPINION: The new lifelong learner — an education to match America’s economic needs appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2018

Udacity helped start the whole MOOC craze several years ago, offering online courses that drew tens of thousands of students and sparking a conversation about whether these new online programs could replace college as we know it. Here’s an excerpt of the interview, which has been edited and condensed for grammar and clarity.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As my Entangled Solutions colleagues Amber Laxton, Yury Lifshits and I write in a new report, 10 Trends Ahead for Continuing Education , continuing education programs are an ideal place to not only test new ideas, but also launch new programs. MOOCs are not the only ones that offer on-demand learning today.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In a report, the agency cited constrained revenue growth in tuition and uncertainty in federal policy. One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX. Strategic alliances, of course, are not unique to the airline industry.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. The first half of 2019 saw 123 deals of over $100 million.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. “ 18 States Are Suing Betsy DeVos Over For-Profit College Rules ,” Buzzfeed reports. ” “College made millions by tricking Indigenous people, court finds,” The Guardian reports. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Nearly 60 percent of 589 preK-12 educators surveyed enrolled in professional courses online, according to a study by the Educational Technology Industry Network, a division of the Software & Information Industry Network. The report was released exclusively to EdWeek Market Brief today, and will be given wider distribution Tuesday.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, is now a buzzword in nearly every industry ranging from financing to healthcare. As EdSurge reported in October 2017, those programs are now creating a situation where learners are accumulating more credentials from different providers.

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Education Digital Badges MOOC Industry 82

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Across industries, demand for talent was booming. Early reports indicate that many blue-chip companies have begun to freeze or rescind hiring offers to graduating students. MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The edtech entrepreneurs, educators, investors and other education professionals that share their opinions and practices through storytelling on our site are invaluable to this industry, and we celebrate them. SLACK ON: MOOCs get knocked for lacking the intimate discussions and organic student interactions that accompany college classes IRL.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. " There is a growing digital proctoring industry that offers schools way to monitor students during online test-taking.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

We’re breaking out our barbeque bibs, pulling out our reporter’s notebooks and heading down to Austin for SXSWedu. But as Lindsey Cook (Data Editor at US News & World Report) points out in this 20 minute talk, that data isn’t always accessible. When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) Also missing were blockbuster exits, such as LinkedIn’s $1.5 Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. Newkirk concedes they are not the first to use these techniques, but the combination he and his colleagues have devised is getting results beyond what others have reported.

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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.”) I’m not sure it was, but then again, understanding the LMS industry is really their thing and not mine (something for which I am eternally grateful). Subscribe to their blog.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

We’re hoping you don’t see the report as something you read once and file away, but that you start using it to really start stimulating conversation.”. NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition). As with any changing industry, there are many problems standing in the way of effective technology implementation. CHALLENGES.

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Trends Technology Robotics Report 28

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Research, “Research,” and Reports. ” Spoiler alert: Latinos. Education in the Courts.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. The New Industrial State because it’s also a seminal work and I think that everyone should read something written by Galbraith at least once in their life. Serving the same purpose but in the more narrow niche of U.S.

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Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 71

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

" There is a growing digital proctoring industry that offers schools way to monitor students during online test-taking. Well-known names in the industry include ProctorU, Proctorio, and Examity. We know that algorithms are biased, because we know that humans are biased.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. The New Industrial State because it’s also a seminal work and I think that everyone should read something written by Galbraith at least once in their life. Serving the same purpose but in the more narrow niche of U.S.

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Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 49

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. For many U.S. Last year, U.S.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. So here is the consensus from the past twelve years of the Horizon Report for higher education. The quotation is from 2012. How do you do that?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Networks matter.

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