{"id":90984,"date":"2024-03-13T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90984"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:00:57","slug":"edtech-unicorns-are-evolving-rather-than-disrupting-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/03\/13\/edtech-unicorns-are-evolving-rather-than-disrupting-webb\/","title":{"rendered":"Edtech Unicorns Are Evolving Rather Than Disrupting [Webb]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2024-03-13\/accenture-s-udacity-takeover-shows-edtech-unicorns-evolving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Edtech Unicorns Are Evolving Rather Than Disrupting<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from bloomberg.com by Alex Webb<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Consider Coursera Inc., the most prominent survivor of that early edtech hype. It\u2019s now a public company, with a hefty $2.3 billion valuation. Finally, 12 years after it was founded \u2014 by, incidentally, another Google veteran in Andrew Ng \u2014 it\u2019s set to report its first profit this year, according to analyst estimates. And the enterprise business is considerably more profitable, enjoying a 68% gross margin in 2023, compared to the consumer business\u2019s 53% margin.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFiguring out the right match between training and utility is how several business schools seem to have developed successful online courses \u2014 which they are charging top dollar for. They\u2019re in close contact with the sort of large corporations who hire their graduates, giving them a more intimate understanding of what those businesses seek.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Harvard Business School is one example. It made $74 million from online courses in fiscal 2022, the most recent year for which<\/span>\u00a0<a class=\"Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/about\/annualreport\/2022\/financials\/supplemental\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-component=\"link\">data is available<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech Unicorns Are Evolving Rather Than Disrupting &#8212; from bloomberg.com by Alex Webb Consider Coursera Inc., the most prominent survivor of that early edtech hype. It\u2019s now a public company, with a hefty $2.3 billion valuation. Finally, 12 years after it was founded \u2014 by, incidentally, another Google veteran in Andrew Ng \u2014 it\u2019s set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,61,112,200,32,3,7,15,505,62,855,310,212,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-business-side-of-he","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-education-technology","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-lifelong-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-online-learning","category-skills","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90985,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90984\/revisions\/90985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}