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Human Learning #48 — Of Players and Ecosystems

Hi All

Apologies for the delay on this one, life and and work interrupted me. Top story this week is the move by Udacity and 2U to move to third party providers (glide.ai and Linkedin respectively) to improve their value…

Human Learning #47 — An anatomy of peer to peer marketplaces, Coursera for Health, Edtech should be wary of self-regulation

Issue 47 turned out to be longer than expected, Coursera have set their sights on Healthcare, their approach is matching…

Human Learning #46 — MOOCs market big, fairly valuable and slowing and Coursera get social

Happy New Year! 2019, I’m so excited (actually ask me after March 29). Although not in the MOOC world, I think it’ll be like last year — degrees — but more. That said there…

Human Learning #45 — MOOCs are dead, Adaptive is coming (at last) and Facebook are hungry

Welcome to issue 45! First order of business, I’m dropping the newsletter to a monthly cadence, it’s partly laziness. I do however also want to focus a bit less on the news and…

Human Learning #43 — Should MOOC platforms do undergraduate degrees?

Welcome to issue 43. The focus of this week is on the degree market. Most MOOC platforms have doubled down on Masters (edX) but FutureLearn is preparing an undergraduate degree, I look at the challenges MOOC…

Human Learning #40 — Spotlight on gender in Ed/Tech continues and 2U’s valuation remains divisive

The last edition on gender in Edtech struck a chord, with many readers lauding Coursera for both appointing women to senior roles and for championing it (and no the…

Human Learning #39 — Gender diversity in Edtech, International Expansion and a meditation on Higher Ed in the neoliberal economy :)

Welcome to issue 39! No top story this week! The main coverage is on Udacity’s career service, Udemy’s…

Human Learning #38 — Coursera still loves MOOCs its just ‘things have changed’ — Edtech innovations on the horizon?

Welcome to issue #38 of Human Learning! Mercifully there was more MOOC news in the past fortnight, the highlight of which was…

Human Learning #37 — What’s that I see on the horizon? Is it a digital labour market?

Human Learning #37

Welcome to issue 37, a much shortened issue. Slow news fortnight. The main thing to flag is I’m aiming to cover a bit more of…