Education 2.0 & 3.0

In a recently announced transaction, 2U will acquire all edX assets, including the brand, about 3,500 digital courses, and the website — with its 50 million learners. This development should serve as a wakeup call for other colleges and universities, which must start thinking about how to unbundle the value chain and outsource areas where others possess superior core competencies By partnering and controlling significant parts of value chain instead of resisting them, universities can gain a significant portion of revenues that would steadily migrate toward EdTech companies. Those additional revenues can provide seed capital to universities to drive their own EdTech initiatives. Right now, they’re mere spectators in the game.

Via Peter Mellow

The online learning platform absorbs the nonprofit started by Harvard and MIT to expand its reach. Philosophical concerns linger, but edX partners will benefit from new investment.

Via Peter Mellow

Transformación digital y digitalización no son lo mismo, aunque se utilicen muchas veces como sinónimos. La primera es un proceso mucho más costoso

Via Marta Torán

Via Peter Mellow

Online learning provider company to buy assets of nonprofit MOOC pioneer to create a new entity reaching 50 million learners.

Via Peter Mellow

Una oportunidad que surge de los grandes retos En el siguiente artículo hablaremos de cómo ha impactado el COVID-19 al mundo, qué oportunidades ha tenido el sector educativo, cómo se ha solventado y la liberación de paradigmas frente al E-Learning.    La pandemia que se ha desencadenado por el COVID-19 ha puesto al mundo a enfrentar un gran reto; el aislamiento social que a su vez nos obliga a vivir el presente sin controlar lo que pueda pasar en el futuro. Para todos ha sido evidente la gran velocidad y fuerza con la que se ha propagado el virus, generando

Via Marta Torán