Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

The specific concern came over a statement by the company’s then-CEO, Dan Goldsmith, who boasted at an investor conference that the company was developing algorithms based on user data that would give it a competitive advantage in the market. Coursera, which sells online courses by top colleges, went public earlier this year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We’ve been really excited about collaborating with edtech developers—we now have skills available to customers from Kickboard, ParentSquare, Coursera, Blackboard and Canvas. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). At one point Coursera boasted about a average forum response time of 22 minutes; that’s no longer the case. As a result the forums are far less vibrant and informative than they were in the early days.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education investing. Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public. Specifically, across the ocean. billion in 2017.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Examples of these online course series, which are open to enrollment by any applicant, include Coursera Specializations which appeared in early 2014, and the MicroMasters , first offered in Supply Chain Management by MITx in 2015 via the edX online platform. At a recent conference, Wharton Online reported that it had seen 1.1-million

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2013, the American Council on Education recommended colleges accept for credit 12 specific MOOCs offered by Coursera and Udacity. Some education leaders speculated that the poor response rate was due to the barriers institutions created to conferring credit, like making students pass rigorous evaluations for their MOOC classes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

Jamie Najera Jamie Najera, an administrator at Colegio Nexus School in Monterrey, Mexico, traveled about 300 miles this week to attend the International Society for Technology in Education ( ISTE ) conference, where he hoped to find new technologies to support his students. “We In China, I think the culture is little different.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Companies like Coursera, which helps universities build and access online courses, have ridden the momentum from new registrations to secure a $130 million investment in July. It convenes an annual conference for instructors focused on professional development. According to the EdSurge database, U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

I see four AI use and ethics trends set to disrupt classrooms and conference rooms. AI courses through traditional universities like MIT , along with online courses through organizations like Coursera , will aim to prepare more people for jobs in AI.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2023

Through creating professional connections for instance by attending conferences, webinars, workshops, etc, you get to tap into the expertise and knowledge of your crowd allowing you to access insider insights that would be hard to access otherwise.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

In Acumen’s programs, we facilitate weekly “Learning Labs” hosted on Zoom, a video conference platform, where students show up for two hours to discuss case studies and receive feedback from peers. Face-to-face time, whether in person or via video conference, can help make the course experience feel more personalized and motivating.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A Need for Speed in Learning Experts at conferences have been talking for years about “the future of work”—how automation and other forces will reshape the job market, and how colleges need to create new kinds of offerings that are more flexible. Department of Education. Listen to the conversation below, or read highlights below.

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Educate AI Magazine

MARCH 7, 2025

I recently analyzed feedback from 112 adult learners in Coursera writing courses who used the Rhetorical Prompting Model RPM to guide their AI interactions. His expertise has earned him speaking engagements at notable events including the Chicago Book Fair, Edu-Con, and the Ohio Educational Technology Conference.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. which has been home to an edtech investment fund (Emerge Education), a large annual edtech expo (BETT) and a conference for investors (EdtechX Europe). In the U.S., That center of gravity has been shifting, though.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Around this time, Course Hero also started hosting an annual conference to spotlight innovations in teaching practices. education technology companies have propelled Coursera , Duolingo and Guild Education to the unicorn stable. A series of large fundraising deals in a record-setting 2019 for U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

A red carpet and a self-driving car were just a few of the things attendees saw on Tuesday at Intersect, the third annual conference put on by online learning provider Udacity. Conference attendees wait in line on a red carpet to ride in Udacity's self-driving car.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

But this time, it’s not pouring money into a startup or a conference. Over the years, GSV has invested in the likes of Facebook, Spotify and Twitter alongside education companies including Chegg and Coursera. GSV is making a new investment in education. Its partner? A small, Christian college in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. Conversations with Devonshire Investors started at the ASU+GSV Summit, an education technology conference, this past April.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The most common of alliances, of course, are athletic conferences. 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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

John Katzman, long-time education entrepreneur and founder of several successful education businesses, once waggishly told an investor conference audience that venture capitalists were very pleased to invest in education—for the rich. This dichotomy is not lost on investors. And this is just online.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Merit America provided a stipend that helped him afford a bus pass to attend job counseling sessions while he completed a 13-week Coursera program to earn a Google IT certification. Hamadi had withdrawn from Penn State University in 2016 for financial reasons and taken a minimum wage retail job back home in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. They are listed below, and after the reminder plea for moderator volunteers, you''ll also find the current list of all conference sessions. Huge thanks!

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 6, 2015

Downes was speaking at the ELI 4th International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Education held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. cMOOCs still exist of course, but the popular format is now that of the mega-courses run by the likes of consortia such as Coursera and EdX.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. In some cases he decides to eventually take the whole thing, and Coursera waives the usual fee for him to get a certificate if he finishes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. ” He has backed these initiatives financially; and he has backed the publications and conferences that promote these sorts of efforts. Is this really a trend?

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Recently, I found myself sitting in a conference room along with 200+ educators for one day workshop. Some had traveled for a few hours to be there just on time and some were still trickling in the conference room even after the workshop had started.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. ” For those not up on corporate conference speak, Dreamforce is Salesforce’s big annual event. Raise $146.1 million in venture funding; ask people to work for you for free. ” Well, maybe they do; maybe they don’t.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

There have been some calls recently that education technology needs to become a discipline – which I guess implies that the field is not one already, despite all the journals and departments and degrees and jobs and conferences and gatherings (like this one). The rationale for a discipline: more coherence, more prestige.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

David Wiley announced that this year’s OpenEd Conference would be the last. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray. Cengage and McGraw-Hill announced a merger that would make the new company the second largest textbook publisher in the US. The deal still faces opposition ). Operation Varsity Blues.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2020

The number of master’s degrees alone conferred by universities rose 70 percent from 2000 to 2017, and more than tripled since 1970. The most elite institutions, such as Stanford, have seen graduate enrollment hold steady and international graduate enrollment even rise in recent years. Photo: Geri Lavrov/Getty Images.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The conference also welcomes the return of familiar faces in new gigs: former Knewton CEO is now with Bakpax, and Los Angeles Unified’s former superintendent John Deasy will share plans for rebuilding prisons to better serve incarcerated youths. Kamau Bell. 2:00PM: Mapping EdTech Globally by Navitas Ventures.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. .” million people since 2003.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

More on University College London and its eugenics conferences via DC’s Improbable Science. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” ” “How Colleges Foretold the #MeToo Movement ,” according to The Atlantic. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

” I believe she was at a conference, but in the horrible way that Twitter strips context from our utterances, I’m going to borrow it without knowing who or what she was referring to and re-contextualize the phrase here for my purposes because that’s the visiting speaker’s prerogative.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” “ The Most Popular Courses of 2016 ” on Coursera. Edsurge rewrites Coursera’s infographic – because journalism – about which classes are popular in “red states” and which ones are popular in “blue states.” ” Contests and Conferences.

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