Education startup Instructure has raised $30 million in a Series D round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and including Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, EPIC Ventures and OpenView Partners. Read more »
Since launching, online learning startup Coursera has focused on partnerships with elite institutions. But its latest cohort of partners includes state university systems interested in using MOOCs to improve completion rates, quality and access. Read more »
On the heels of faculty backlashes to massive open online courses, three universities have pulled out of an online learning program with education company 2U. Read more »
Professors at San Jose State University argue that massive open online courses (MOOCs) could seriously compromise the quality of education at public universities. Read more »
Launched at Stanford University, NovoEd wants to build on the massive open online course (MOOC) phenomenon with a startup that puts collaboration at the center of the online learning experience. Read more »
There has been rapid growth in the number of online-only college courses that have accredited professors teaching audiences that can number in the tens of thousands. This development could be a huge boon for students, professors and universities. Read more »
Moving closer toward its vision of being an open-sourced learning platform, edX on Thursday released its XBlock SDK, the underlying architecture supporting edX course content. Read more »
A new bill proposed by a state senator in California would create a new system that would allow public universities across the state to accept college credit for online courses. Read more »
Even if providers of massive open online courses don’t intend to provide degrees or degree equivalents, that doesn’t mean degrees fully powered by informal sources aren’t on the horizon. Read more »
SXSWedu, an annual conference on all things ed tech, kicks off Monday. From the growing role of data to debates on online education to DIY approaches to education, here’s a look at what’s ahead. Read more »
According to Harvard business professor and best-selling author Clay Christensen, the disruptive effects of the web are being felt the most by the media and advertising industries, but the education business is next in line. Read more »
Educational-technology startups are poised to disrupt the trillion-dollar U.S. education market. Those companies that will succeed in helping change this space will offer tools and products that make learning a social, interactive experience students can access anytime, anywhere. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
A group of educators, including online course startup Udacity, today released a “Bill of Rights” meant to protect the interests of students in online education. Read more »
2U (formerly 2tor) is partnering with 10 top U.S. universities for a new online learning program for undergraduates that aims to create the online equivalent of quality offline education, with small classes, live instruction and teacher-student interaction. Read more »
Online learning startup Coursera is working with the American Council on Education to evaluate course equivalency for its courses. The company said the process will start in early 2013 and hopes it encourages more students to ultimately pursue a college degree. Read more »
This week, online education startup Coursera said that it would no longer be able to offer courses to residents of Minnesota because of a decades-old policy. Now, it’s raising questions among the states’s local tech community. Read more »
10gen, the company behind the popular MongoDB database, is working with the nonprofit open source education initiative edX to offer free online MongoDB courses. 10gen CEO and co-founder Dwight Merriman will teach one of the classes. Read more »
Online education startup Coursera has added 17 more university partners — including schools in Australia, Hong Kong, Canada and Israel — bringing its total number of academic partners to 33. Read more »
After a report last week about plagiarism incidences on Coursera, which offers free online courses, the startup has added honor code reminders to help keep students honest. The startup recently announced that it has enrolled more than one million students from around the world. Read more »
Online education startup Coursera, which provides free online courses taught by professors at top universities, has attracted one million enrolled students from every country in the world. The company has raised $22 million and partners with universities including Stanford, Princeton and Duke. Read more »
In addition to announcing $6 million in new funding, online education startup Coursera Tuesday announced that was adding a dozen new university partners, including three international partners. Read more »
