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. That may represent an untapped growth opportunity for Coursera, he adds.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. Now it is selling all the course content developed for those free courses to colleges that want to use the materials in their own campus programs. At least a few colleges had already purchased those licensing plans.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. billion, to be exact—comes courtesy of a $10 million Series B round from NewView Capital , whose founder and managing partner, Ravi Viswanathan, will join Course Hero’s board of directors. But its CEO winces when he hears the word.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

Andrew Ng taught one of the most-viewed online courses of all time—more than 1.5 million people have registered to take one of the many sequences of his free online course about machine learning. That experience spurred him to co-found Coursera. Coursera may be looking for a blockbuster these days.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

billion in venture and private equity capital across 130 deals, according to the EdSurge edtech funding database. edtech industry. Edtech investing exploded in 2020. edtech deals were blueblood firms, like Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst, along with new funds betting on education startups for the first time.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 31, 2017

In my newest book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (out soon), I’ve dedicated one of the missions to citizen science projects. Take the free Coursera online course about the 2017 Solar Eclipse. Activities, a video, games and more by BrainPop !

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Parent builds edtech. Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5 Pandemic closes school. Students go home.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based edtech companies in the first half of 2019. The high tally for venture funding this year is not unique to the edtech industry. Companies are also increasingly offering their own courses to attract, train and recruit potential candidates for open positions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

When Course Hero raised $10 million in early February, the amount seemed curiously small for $1.1 Last week, Course Hero secured an additional $70 million in an extension of its Series B round, courtesy of some of the biggest names in the financial sector—TPG, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and GSV. It kept its $1.1 billion valuation.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. He’s also backed Coursera and Course Hero, two privately held edtech companies that are each valued at more than $1 billion. edtech startups raised $2.2 See: Airbnb, DoorDash and Snowflake) Edtech companies are hot—but not that hot.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. And that has private investors piqued.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Since then, the company has grown and now offers more than 90 courses in 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and English, and more regional-specific tongues such as Navajo, Hawaiian, Welsh and Irish Gaelic. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Voice, after all, is one of the most natural ways to interface with technology, says Coursera’s Alexander Sanchez. EdSurge: Coursera decided to build an Alexa skill because you saw voice technology as a smart investment. How do you imagine Coursera students using voice to support their learning? There's no training required.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. Talbert recently wrote about the experience on his blog , asking the question: “is traditional higher education in trouble from online course providers?”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66 edtech industry in 2019 is largely mirrored across the broader venture capital landscape. billion across 105 deals in 2019, a five-year high in value. A retention of talent is going to matter.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Modern Classrooms Project will help you bring engaging, exciting teaching to your classroom with their free online course and community. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

And the Covid-19 pandemic has proved that EdTech and eLearning are integral parts of modern academic reality. Stay tuned in Top-quality portals for educators allow instant access to up-to-date information on EdTech trends, new product launches, and innovative teaching methods. What are the benefits and drawbacks of its everyday usage?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Rarely, it seems, is anybody ever specifically tasked with teaching students a step-by-step course in how to learn. Some of these courses are offered through the university system, but many others are made available outside of traditional academia. Nevertheless, they do have their uses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2021

When MIT and Harvard University started edX nearly a decade ago, it was touted as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online course providers. In the end, 2U officials said in a statement that they have pledged to: Guarantee affordability through the continuation of a free version of online courses.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Here is a recap of the biggest and most popular edtech business stories of 2020. It may not be the only publicly traded edtech company to be taken private. Dozens of Venture-Backed Startups Among Edtech Recipients of PPP Loans. A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective. But So Are Costs.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

There isn’t a New York Times bestseller list for online courses, but perhaps there should be. After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

That’s because even with the IPO, Thoma Bravo will maintain majority ownership of Instructure, notes Phil Hill, an edtech consultant and blogger. “I Phil Hill, an edtech consultant and blogger The shrugs from observers today are much different than the uproar around Instructure’s sale last year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students and provide access to information and learning resources in a more convenient way. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Its content suite includes online courses on alcohol awareness, character development, financial literacy, sexual violence prevention, workplace conduct, and even touches on more traditional school subjects like STEM. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Coursera CEO Rick Levin.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Michael Feldstein, a longtime edtech consultant and blogger, highlighted what he saw as the “hypocrisy” of the deal in a blog post last week. Universities that paid into Coursera were paying fees to a vendor. EdX, in contrast, was to be a non-profit. It was a public good.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice."

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2U’s early years, the company focused on working with one online graduate program per discipline (so that none of its partners were in competition with each other) and working only with highly-selective programs with low enrollments per course. It’s a self-reinforcing strategy that is the same one followed by Coursera.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. Pluralsight—an online IT training provider—has scaled to become an edtech “unicorn,” with a valuation over $1 billion.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

According to edtech consultant Phil Hill in a recent blog post , most revenue-sharing ventures have either lost money or barely reached breakeven. Leaders in the sector, including 2U, Coursera and Keypath, never made a profit on the activity, and Pearson and Wiley sold off their OPM offshoots in recent months when the going got rough.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Recent US edtech “unicorns”. Course Hero ( $1.1B Coursera ( $1.7B ). Among them is Course Hero, a popular destination for college course materials, which also recently earned “unicorn” status after a fundraise. It’s a reminder of basic business principles: Grow responsibly. Manage costs. valuation ). Udemy ( $2B ).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

For massive open online courses, which straddle colleges and universities and the private sector, expectations around compliance are murky. And the issue gets even stickier for colleges hosting massive open online courses with outside learning platforms, which host free or low-cost digital courses for millions of learners around the globe.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

“Now is the time,” said a recent promotional email from Udemy, a library of online courses. The ad promised courses on coding websites and minting NFTs for cut rates as low as $13.99, but only during a two-day “flash sale.” Today, the rise of online education means courses can be taken on-demand, and at low cost.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Late last month, an article in the online course review site Class Central put it more starkly, calling the promise of the nonprofit “hollow.” Instead of being an innovator, Axim Collaborative seems to be a non-entity in the edtech space, its promises of innovation and equity advancement largely unfulfilled,” Shah wrote.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

edtech market recently. If you listen to the company’s chief executive, it’s thriving because it runs a hybrid model for its entrepreneurship training programs that, the company argues, keeps it growing when a lot of edtech companies have had to struggle with the return to in-person learning. edtech market.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These developments will have important implications for colleges and universities, training and skills providers, edtech firms and investors and other stakeholders in the education ecosystem. Employees, of course, often desire skill development that can be recognized externally and has career-long value beyond their current employer.

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