Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

edtech startups in 2017. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration).

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

And that’s forcing companies and colleges around the globe to reevaluate their data policies and practices. The new law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), will require that any entity that processes personal data for E.U. MOOC-provider Coursera, for example, claims to have 6.5 institution.

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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. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn. MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera , edX and individual participating universities. More on education reform.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. This was despite the fact that all three schools had the same levels of technology access.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Course Report published year-end data from edX and Coursera. Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

According to data from Burning Glass Technologies, 19 percent of U.S. The master’s degree market is also a hotbed of innovation, as some of the world’s top universities are now experimenting with MOOC-based degrees at substantially lower price points. Graduate education has been a bright spot in U.S. As of 2017, according to U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

According to the latest tracking data from the Chronicle of Higher Education, two-year colleges are significantly more likely than other institution types to be planning for a primarily or fully online fall semester. Department of Education data. More broadly, it is an era of surging demand for online postsecondary learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

based edtech startups in 2017 saw a resurgence of investment capital. edtech investments in 2011. edtech companies. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

It wasn’t until providers of so-called MOOCs—massive open online courses—entered into online partnership with high-ranking colleges about a decade ago that serious discounting took off. Since then, MOOC degrees have mushroomed , now with more than 70 others available in partnership with about 30 first-class universities worldwide.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

In recent years, blockchain technology has become a buzzword in the edtech sector. The system of recording information secures digital data in a way that makes it traceable and difficult to alter. The technology can be used to authenticate the identities of people, to determine ownership or to verify data.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The report is available for download without monetary charge and without collection of your personal data. If you care about equity in edtech, this report is a must-read, especially if you are interested in evidence-based research and practical solutions. If you don’t care about equity in edtech. MOOCs vs Open textbooks).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. Plus: printers, smart speakers and privacy (oh my!) — all in this Edtech Reports Recap. Why are data links important? The potential impacts, good and bad?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Every year in March the edtech world descends on Austin for SXSW EDU, a conference that’s become as much about classroom practice and implementation as entrepreneurship and tech innovation. Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech? The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Siemens cautions us on the negative effects of using technology without applying a human touch: “While machine learning and automation are obviating the need for learners to memorize content and develop routine skills, current edtech solutions still focus on helping learners develop these capabilities. Engagement is about more than data.

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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. Pandemic closes school. Students go home. Remote classes falter. Child is disengaged. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Any solution that you choose to trust your whole institution’s data should be dependable. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. There are intricate levels of hierarchy, complex workflows, and data-driven decision making involved.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. Use of data analytics.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

One of the first colleges to try the new arrangement is the University of Colorado at Boulder, which already offers two degree programs through Coursera—a master’s in data science and a master’s in electrical engineering. “We recognize that we would be sharing the benefit of ‘bigger and more’ more fairly with this new fee structure.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Digging as hard as I could, I could not find reliable data revealing how many of them teach online. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. If blockchain records follow learners throughout their lives, asked San José State University professor Roxana Marachi in a recent interview with The Markup, what would that mean for people’s data privacy, and their right to be forgotten ? At least, in theory.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia. The question is: are there viable edtech opportunities in so-called bottom-of-the-pyramid markets?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. The pair then started the company in January 2013. These online courses are easy to sign up for, yet few students actually stick through and finish them.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. Rethink Education , an edtech investment firm based in White Plains, N.Y.

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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. The changing market also sets the stage for the emergence of new types of technology solutions and partnerships.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Udacity is one of the few edtech companies to gain “unicorn” status, meaning it is valued by investors at over $1 billion. EdSurge: Udacity rode the wave of hype around MOOCs, massive open online courses, when the company started back in 2011. But describing it precisely may be as difficult as finding the mythical creature itself.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. It goes beyond classroom interactions and file sharing to analytics, reports, data-driven decision making, and maintaining the order. It also caters to achieve certain objectives beyond the mere course delivery. That’s where Linways AMS comes in.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

ESSA: What Edtech Providers Need to Know : Whiteboard Advisors Senior Vice President David DeSchryver and Education Week Senior Editor Sean Cavanagh break down one of the biggest federal education policies to pass in the last decade: the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Data journalist David McCandless calculated it would take over one million plays on Spotify for a solo artist to earn the U.S. But this was only possible because their production was highly subsidized by universities, investors or philanthropists who were testing out MOOCs as new forms of brand building or educational research.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. However, in the last few years, higher education has listened to the world of MOOCs and started changing. The thing that we most need students to do is to solve problems that do not have data, systems, or precedence, and design thinking provides a method.

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