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.” That might include doing research, building tech tools or helping manage organizations.
Edsurge
JUNE 1, 2017
Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Then yep, we’re on board.”
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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. Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education.
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. But MOOC-based degrees are just at the starting line of what appears to be a rush to hang discount tags on online degrees.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2017
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. Even the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue University represents a different competitive approach. I did say to the CEO of Kaplan, who's a good friend, "Welcome to our space."
Hack Education
APRIL 20, 2018
Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. I heard the CEO of edX claim the phrase “data science” didn’t exist a decade ago.
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