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US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online

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COVID has been an accelerant to all of the trends—increase in digitization, skills-based training—that were already there,” says Maia Sharpley, a partner at Learn Capital. “It Udemy, which notched $50 million , offers a marketplace of more than 100,000 courses that cover everything from business to technology skills and personal development.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.

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