Analysis MOOC Online Learning 
Edsurge
MAY 13, 2021
It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. EdX is like a distant No. Downsides of Openness?
Edsurge
APRIL 3, 2018
Many online learning platforms, such as LinkedIn Learning and MasterClass, are indeed pivoting towards business models that look a lot like subscription-based streaming services Pandora, Spotify or Netflix. Even as we reinvent the platforms and modalities for learning, the teachers at the center of the model are losing out.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. Our analysis excludes companies whose primary business is to offer loans and happens to serve students (like Social Finance, which raised $500 million earlier this year). based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round.
Bryan Alexander
JUNE 30, 2021
” There is also some good, early commentary and analysis from EdSurge and Trace Urdan. ITEM: Language learning app Duolingo, founded by Luis von Ahn , filed an IPO. As Paul Fain put it , “MOOCs have become OPMs.” As TechCrunch and others have noted, the market values Duolingo above $2 billion.
Edsurge
MAY 4, 2022
To Coursera, the online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” that went public last year , this may represent an opportunity to serve as an institutional bridge for some of these universities in the struggle to stop the bleeding. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.
Wired Campus
APRIL 30, 2015
The hype around the free online courses called MOOCs has drawn millions of students, who are all essentially part of a teaching experiment of unprecedented scale. A new report, released on Thursday, seeks to answer the question “Where is research on massive open online courses headed?
Bryan Alexander
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
How can colleges and universities share courses online? The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. All faculty felt more comfortable with online learning pedagogy. That is, can students at one institution take a class taught by faculty at another?
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