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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY) is down 52.4 In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc.

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

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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. I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. What was happening? I could hardly blame them.

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

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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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Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Udemy - 80% male because focuses on tech space. Also important to support course developers/teachers with instructional design training since many may not come from education backgrounds. A: Udemy has a few professors who use their online courses as part of blended learning.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. EverFi (“critical skills” training) –- $190 million. EverFi (“critical skills” training) – $251 million. Pluralsight (skills training) – $192.5

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. Udemy (skills training): $173 million. Udacity (skills training): $160 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) –- $244.2

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