Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. Although many professors still favor hard copies, online libraries have also made their way into the course plan in some places across the globe. Thus, the future of education lies in online media.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

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. Still, other top companies are doing quite well, with Coursera, Keypath and Academic Partnerships reporting solid results.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2020

Duke has long built MOOCs through its partnership with Coursera, a major platform for large-scale courses, and it also had previously negotiated an arrangement with Coursera to make all of the certificate programs and courses in Coursera’s library available to all of Duke’s students (in the U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller has ridden the MOOC craze as the company’s CEO and later president. Koller co-founded Coursera with machine-learning expert and fellow Stanford professor Andrew Ng in 2012. Koller also saw Coursera through a period of disenchantment with MOOCs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Additionally, in another example of blending of online and in-person education, Coursera has begun a pilot offering its online MOOC courses to students at its campus partners. Another key MOOC-based degree is the iMBA at the University of Illinois, launched in 2016 with Coursera–a $22,000 program that now enrolls more than 1,000 students.

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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. The typical employee has one percent of their time available for learning, according to research by Bersin by Deloitte.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

One of the most vocal critics of the sale last year was Cristina Colquhoun, an instructional developer at Oklahoma State University’s libraries, who coordinated a letter-writing effort urging the company to make a more forceful public commitment to student privacy.

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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

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. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does).

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2023

“There’s an emotional toil of realizing that you have to reinvent teaching." — Kevin Yee Other efforts announced by educators in recent weeks include: New York University’s Center for Responsible AI and the New York Public Library are launching the All Aboard!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2023

Some good platforms that offer free ebooks and audiobooks include: Internet Archive, LibriVox, Open Library, Open Culture, Bookbub, and many more. Among these platforms are :EdX, Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy, Class Central, OpenYale Courses, Open MIT Courseware, MasterClass, among others.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Users who upload class materials can access the full library for free. These quizzes can then direct users to study materials from Course Hero’s resource libraries. education technology companies have propelled Coursera , Duolingo and Guild Education to the unicorn stable. Non-contributors need a paid subscription.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

There are a few academic subjects, but its library mostly consists of lessons related to skills and hobbies (such as basketball and cooking). GO1, which offers a library of corporate training content and raised $40 million, has reported increased demand from companies for its platform.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Our higher education system formed around libraries. Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions. To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Knowledge organizations, ranging from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, have entered the postsecondary marketplace, offering content, instruction and certification. The latter, which could offer cheaper, more convenient and more established online courses, experienced user growth.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The shift to remote work in the pandemic also fueled the purchase of low-cost subscriptions to online training libraries. The boom in short-form digital learning in the workplace doesn’t mean that classroom-based corporate training or more structured on-the-job learning is going away.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Coursera just raised $130 million and reported that its enterprise business, which serves over 2,500 companies, has grown 70 percent year over year and now accounts for a quarter of its revenue. Employees are also demanding a greater variety of resources, and companies are responding.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

After all, campuses include expensive academic buildings, sports facilities, dormitories and other routine services, such as dining halls and libraries, requiring constant costly maintenance. Online courses, meanwhile, delivered in the cloud above campus, require far less infrastructure.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

“Now is the time,” said a recent promotional email from Udemy, a library of online courses. Coursera, another giant online provider that works with traditional colleges, runs special rate promotions as well. But what has this wave of online bargains meant for perceptions of higher education?

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In recent dealmaking news Macmillan Publishers gets a new president; Coursera promotes new public health education courses; and Rosetta Stone unveils improved iPhone app. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Follett Helps Libraries With Genre Organization; McGraw-Hill Launches New Math, Science Curricula appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Ivies are all risk-averse,” says Peggy McCready, former associate vice provost for technology and digital initiatives at UPenn Libraries. The other is the fear that if they adopt remote instruction, it will surely damage their centuries-long accumulation of prestige, undermining what have become the world’s most coveted academic brands.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 18, 2024

It provides access to a vast library of user-generated flashcards covering various subjects and topics. Coursera Coursera is a fantastic option for those wanting to explore beyond traditional curriculums. It is complemented by a personalized learning dashboard that lets you learn at your preferred pace in class and at home.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The college library, catalog, financial aid, admissions, registration, and of course, the school’s website, all have important digital services and are all easily accessible on the net. These days hardly a class exists at any college or university that operates without logging onto a learning management system. Clogged Streams.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The likes of Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, MasterClass, Lynda, and Pluralsight have together raised more than $1 billion and represent combined enterprise value of more than $5 billion. This dichotomy is not lost on investors. And this is just online. ETF’s initial funders include The Joyce Foundation, W.K.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

Coursera is providing 550 colleges and universities with free access to its online courses. More than 75 percent of students don’t think they’re getting a quality learning experience this semester.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

University of California, San Diego via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera. University of California, Irvine via Coursera. University System of Georgia via Coursera. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Coursera. Harvard University via edX.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. In library they are using stop motion technology to develop stories. And here is mine.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Coursera is known to work with both K-12 and higher education institutions and provide them with access to online courses. Well, Apple took its education effort to a new level by creating this tool, which is essentially a vast library of free educational resources. Explore and enjoy! For Online Courses/Blended Learning.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.), DeMillo carries on with several themes. Kindle location 1093).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2016

They brought together data from the Census Bureau, HHS, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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myViewBoard

JUNE 20, 2019

Common hits are videos from dispersed free and paid-for educational videos websites such as TEDx , Udemy , Khan Academy , and Coursera. In our survey, we found that significantly fewer teachers get videos from other non-web-based sources such as their library (14%) and even fewer from their institution (12%).

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens (by the University of Hong Kong and Stony Brook University): A six-week, distance learning course hosted on Coursera. Citation Library (not a report, but a great roundup of research articles and reports) Defining Disinformation.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 30, 2016

and Coursera’s Mission (yes, capitalized there). Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.), Next week, starting February 1st, is our final discussion of the book, starting with its epilogue. and get reading. I’ve set up a tag for all posts: demillorevolution.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

We see Coursera when it was just “DKandme” This chapter takes us through the critical work of selected people, including Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Charles Vest, Anant Agarwal, and John Hennessy. DeMillo dubs this the Magic Year of 2012, when his titular revolution began.

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Kyle Pace

OCTOBER 28, 2014

You have three different view modes for when you’re working on a project, and there’s also the WeVideo Academy – where you can go through their library of short video lessons to learn all of the ins and outs of the app. One of the best parts about WeVideo is their effort they’ve made to teach the user how to use it.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

plays especially nicely with Coursera, Udacity, edX, Khan Academy, Vimeo, and YouTube. Users can also insert screenshots from the video into their notes. makes it easy to rewind and adjust speeds to transcribe or grab exact quotes from video. Notes are automatically saved to a file in Google Drive.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst. Build a Bridge: Transitioning to STEM TPBL - Beth Witte, Program Coordinator Creating Citizen Scientists in the Classroom - Matthew Rudisi – Science Faculty (Biology) Re-awakening Students’ Curiosity - Frank Kowalski, Physics Prof.

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