Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

In the seven years since colleges and companies first started experimenting with large-scale online courses known as MOOCs, more than 100 million people have given them a try—though how they are used keeps changing. Two big trends dominated the MOOC landscape this year. edX – 18 million. XuetangX – 14 million.

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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

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

JANUARY 3, 2019

The heyday for massive open online courses was studded with hype. So much so, the New York Times even dubbed 2012 the “ Year of the MOOC.” Advocates for the courses would point a finger at the unaffordability of traditional education, promising that MOOCs could offer cheaper, more innovative alternatives.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2019

Salesforce has worked with OpenClassrooms to create and offer a developer-training course to help people learn how to use the Salesforce platform. In a similar vein, Microsoft will use the OpenClassrooms platform for a six-month course in artificial intelligence. That’s what happened to Coursera, NovoEd, Udacity and several others.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But in recent years a new type of online degree has emerged, born of partnerships between elite universities and the platforms that support MOOCs, such as Coursera, FutureLearn, and edX. Two years later, the University of Illinois and Coursera started a master’s program in business that it called an iMBA.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2020

Large-scale courses known as MOOCs were invented to get free or low-cost education to people who could not afford or get access to traditional options. Duke University was one of the first institutions to draw on MOOCs in response to the novel coronavirus. Other MOOC providers are making similar offers.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2017

In Oct 2011, a few Stanford professors offered three online courses which were completely free. The strong public interest in these courses caught everyone by surprise. More than 100,000 people signed up—for each course. Within two years, more than a 1,000 instructors from more than 150 universities had launched online courses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs. And it's an opportune time to rethink open courses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

With such broad interpretations of AI, Andrew Ng wants to simply things for the average person in a new course called AI for Everyone. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. Increasingly, MOOCs are being packaged into series of courses with a non-degree credential being offered to those who successfully complete the series.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Dozens of colleges and universities are taking courses in healthcare and medicine online—and making them free or low-cost—with massive online course platforms. In terms of the existing [medical] workforce, there is clearly a shift in the skill set that is necessary,” says Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Ten years ago when two Stanford professors started Coursera , many of the big-name colleges the company partnered with offered few online courses. And the courses they put on Coursera were done mainly as goodwill outreach—free offerings to help spread knowledge to those who couldn’t afford a campus experience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012 , their pitch to investors often included jargon around “disrupting” the way education is accessed and consumed. We are realizing that the vast reach of MOOCs makes them a powerful gateway to degrees,” Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda said in a statement.

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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

APRIL 29, 2019

But SEEK Group , an Australian operator of online educational and employment services, has doubled down on massive open online courses. Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Coursera , a global online learning platform that offers courses, certificates and degrees from more than 150 universities, announced Thursday it had secured $103 million in a Series E round to expand its international reach and prepare learners for the rising challenges of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education. The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 7, 2013

But I do enjoy learning and I am very interested in the ideas of MOOCs or Massively Open Online Courses and have been for a while. If you aren''t familiar with MOOCs the idea is that major universities (like Harvard, MIT, Georgetown and others) offer courses from their faculty free, and online, for any one to take.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first place. MOOCs started in around 2011 when a few Stanford professors put their courses online and made them available to anyone who wanted to take them. They have tons of users.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last year, MOOC providers announced about 30 new online degrees. This wave of activity and spending by MOOC providers and universities gave me a feeling of deja vu: it reminded me of the 2012 MOOC hype. That is why I called the rise of online degrees the second wave of MOOC-hype and 2018, the year of MOOC-based degrees.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million.

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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. And edX, a competitor to Coursera purchased by 2U last year , has offered micro-credentialing programs for years.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education. The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

In the past year or so there's been a flurry of announcements from the big MOOC providers involving new degree programs based around their online courses. Earlier this year, for instance, Coursera announced six new degrees , including the first-ever MOOC-based Bachelors. Quite the opposite.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

News that Arizona State University and edX have archived 10 of their 14 Global Freshman Academy courses raises questions about the viability and purpose of credit-eligible MOOCs. She suggests that first-year students may need more academic and social supports and wraparound services than a la carte MOOCs provide.

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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. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

The deal was contentious because edX had long touted its nonprofit status and independence from capitalist pressures as it convinced more than 150 colleges — many of them highly selective ones — to join in as partners to offer free and low-cost courses online. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

The MOOC landscape has grown to include 9,400 courses, more than 500 MOOC-based credentials, and more than a dozen graduate degrees. The total number of MOOCs available to register for at any point of time is larger than ever, thanks to tweaks in the scheduling policy by MOOC providers. edX: 14 million users.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

The University of Pennsylvania has offered MOOCs on Coursera for several years, but now, it’s giving the online learning platform its first Ivy League degree. Kumar says Penn considered other online providers, but went with Coursera because the company “has a history of supporting the development and delivery of programs at scale.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. While these online courses have seen massive enrollment, perspectives on their impact have been decidedly mixed. Ekowo: Why this MOOC? George Siemens.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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 But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.” Facebook Classes has been compared to Udemy, an online course platform which raised hundreds of millions of dollars during the pandemic based on the idea that anyone can teach video classes.

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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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