Edsurge
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
Knewton, an adaptive learning engine that became a digital courseware company, was reportedly bought by Wiley for way less than it raised. The next edtech company to go public isn’t yet known, but multiple investors said they consider Coursera, the top fundraiser of 2019 so far, a strong candidate.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
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. In these cases their deals are placed in the “All other” category.) Source: EdSurge. Source: EdSurge Private Equity’s Presence.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
Large-scale online courses called MOOCs (massive open online courses), for instance, were touted as possible low-cost replacements for residential colleges , but proved to have completion rates of less than 10%. After all, many high-tech ideas for remaking higher education have made splashy headlines but fail to deliver.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $585 million. EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. And its CEO stepped down.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” The Internet was going to change everything. The Macintosh computer was going to change everything. And on and on and on. ”).
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.
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