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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Udemy (skills training): $173 million. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Yuanfudao (tutoring): $250 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $200 million.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Udemy (skills training) – $173 million. Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example. Yuanfandao (tutoring) –- $210 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.” ” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller.

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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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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012. Udemy, which offers a marketplace for online classes, has raised $173 million total. ” asks Education Dive.