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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

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EdSurge talked with Coursera’s CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, today to ask him what this unicorn company, valued at more than $3.6 Here are the takeaways: Coursera Already Had Cash, But Now It Can Add … More AI? For one thing, more robot teaching-tech behind the scenes. “We billion according to PitchBook, plans to do now. There are 1.3

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. Our higher education system formed around libraries. Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst. Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it? Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) ” The Scholarly Kitchen weighs in on layoffs at DPLA , the Digital Public Library of America. ” (deeplearning.ai

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Geek Dad : “Little Robot Friends Teach Kids to Code With Empathy.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A New Home for AI : The Library.” ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “ Coursera now offers free trials for most Specializations.” ” Via Ars Technica : “ Libraries have become a broadband lifeline to the cloud for students.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Remember MOOCs?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More via Wired.