Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

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. This funding is “vindication for Open University betting on a MOOC platform, for investing in a non-U.S. audiences). it has its work cut out.

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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

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. And yet, only 0.47

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. 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

APRIL 13, 2023

The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.” Even so, the effort was struggling to compete with its main rival , Coursera.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Coursera, a company that hosts massive online courses and degrees, is the latest entrant among a growing number of online education providers that are entering the medical space. 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

MARCH 5, 2021

This afternoon, Coursera filed its S-1 paperwork , offering a first look at how the Mountain View, Calif.-based Coursera reported $293.5 Also driving that growth is Coursera for Campus, which the company launched in late 2019 to let colleges offer its library of online courses to their students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? What role should employers have in the design or execution of digital learning opportunities? Not only are MOOCs designed to be free, they offer opportunity to students to explore the topic before they invest and commit.”

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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. So much so that one professor thinks that higher ed should probably be nervous—or at least that colleges should try to learn something from these well-funded efforts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s a self-reinforcing strategy that is the same one followed by Coursera. edX was never the premier MOOC brand—that title belongs to Coursera. The flywheel aspect is that the more the strategy succeeds, the more revenue is made by institutional partners and by the company, leading to more free courses and registered learners.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But Charles Severance , a University of Michigan professor who also teaches massive open online courses (MOOCs) on Coursera , doesn’t think higher education will be terribly affected, he tells EdSurge. He points out that higher education institutions don’t have the large amount of traffic that, say, a company like Netflix has.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

The university has been making free online classes known as MOOCs, or massive open online courses, since the medium’s early days, says Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, which ranks the institution as the fourth-most prolific university MOOC producer.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Even though the cost of delivering online courses was then far less than on campus, we worried that if colleges set a lower price for remote instruction, students and their families might get the wrong impression, with lower prices signaling that digital learning was less valuable.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera, can’t hide his excitement about AI. He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” But learning online remains a hard nut to crack. The year of the MOOC may be long over.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A dean of digital learning at MIT, Krishna Rajagopal, resigned in protest , telling colleagues in an email that he had “serious continuing reservations” about the proposed direction. Universities that paid into Coursera were paying fees to a vendor. But there are many critics of the deal. It was a public good.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One Ivy, Columbia University, actually got an early start 35 years ago at the dawn of the digital age, when it launched its Video Network that now produces about a dozen online engineering master’s degrees. Ivy League colleges now offer more than 450 of these courses. And some Ivies offer graduate certificate programs online.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

If a student had an interest in learning about something, and we didn’t have a teacher qualified to teach that or who had experience teaching it, we were allowing students to self-design programs of study around an area of interest through a MOOC or Coursera. We had some experience with online learning.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. NYSE: NRDY).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. Other college leaders chase scarce philanthropic dollars to fund tuition cuts, so far with limited success.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

As you think about the future of digital education, where do you see microcredentials fitting in? That’s what the former MOOCs [such as Coursera and Udacity] have driven toward for a business model and they’re getting some revenue and scale out of it. They seem to have a lot of momentum. Short courses result in a certificate.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Owens: Impact tech enhanced education on campus and beyond. Applies to U. Maryland and U Penn.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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Wired Campus

JUNE 5, 2015

Last spring a group of university leaders announced a bold, new project intended to help colleges gain more control of their online course platforms, as they increasingly turned to providers like Coursera or edX. And compared with digital-courseware giants that have attracted millions of users, like Coursera and edX, said Ms.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Something about "learning engineers". Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray. 2U did not have such a great year. LOL LOL LOL.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Free MOOCs Face the Music,” writes Inside Higher Ed on edX ’s decision to start charging fees. More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. Open Learning has raised $8.5 million for its MOOC platform.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” ” Trick question.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” “ State educational technology directors have outlined ambitious targets for increasing school bandwidth capacity in an effort to support digital learning and bridge the technology divide that exists in schools and in students’ homes,” says Education Week. ” The company in question: edX.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. ” Via Education Dive : “Tech for ELL students can bridge content and digital learning gaps.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education.

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