All posts by Cait Etherington
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BBC Bitesize Partners With Cerego to Deliver Personalized Learning to U.K. High Schoolers
January 31, 2019 Cait Etherington
BBC Bitesize, an online study resource for U.K. students, is teaming up with U.S.-based personalized learning platform, Cerego, to deliver a smarter learning…
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New Study Finds eLearning Has Widened Educational Access Gap
January 31, 2019 Cait Etherington
A new study suggests that despite all of its promises, online education may simply be expanding, not bridging, the educational access gap. “Does…
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Coursera and the University of Toronto Launch Autonomous Vehicle Specialization
January 30, 2019 Cait Etherington
Only five years ago, self-driving vehicles appeared to be a pie-in-the-sky futuristic fantasy. By late 2018, the first wave of commercial self-driving vehicles…
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Andela Raises $100 Million to Extend Its Training Mission
January 28, 2019 Cait Etherington
From all accounts, 2018 was a bumper year for edtech companies on the funding front. Among the many huge wins was an announcement…
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WGU Doesn’t Owe $730 Million After All: What the Ruling Means for WGU and Online Learning
January 28, 2019 Cait Etherington
In 2017, Western Governors University (WGU) was slapped with a huge bill from the federal government. Two years later, WGU has been informed…
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CEO of Upwork Predicts Skills Will Soon Matter More than Degrees
January 21, 2019 Cait Etherington
Since 2014, there has been a massive shift from degrees to skills and it has been disrupting all sectors. First, some big players…
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How Florida Virtual School’s Controversy Has Been Kept Mostly Under Wraps
January 20, 2019 Cait Etherington
Over the past year, Florida Virtual School (FLVS), Florida’s statewide, public online secondary school, has dealt with a massive data breach, a series…
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Computer Vision for Classroom “Engagement Detection”: Is it Ethical?
January 19, 2019 Cait Etherington
When you’re teaching in a traditional classroom, there is one thing that is usually obvious: When students are bored, lost, or distracted, they…
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Coursera Rolls Out Healthcare Vertical to Bridge Skill Gap
January 18, 2019 Cait Etherington
On January 17, 2018, Coursera made an announcement about its new health vertical. Offering a spectrum of health-related courses some of the world’s…
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BYJU’S Delivers on Plans to Expand With Acquisition of U.S. Edtech Company
January 16, 2019 Cait Etherington
In December, BYJU’S, one of India’s largest tech companies, announced that it had secured $540 million in a private equity funding round. With…
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