Dhawal Shah, EdSurge

Dhawal Shah

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San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States

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Past articles by Dhawal:

The Second Wave of MOOC Hype is Here, and it’s Online Degrees

In the past year or so there's been a flurry of announcements from the big MOOC providers involving new degree programs based around their online ... → Read More

MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities

In Oct 2011, a few Stanford professors offered three online courses which were completely free. The strong public interest in these courses caught ... → Read More

CollegeVine Adds $3.6M to Series A Round to Guide Students to College

COLLEGEVINE, which provides online college admissions and consulting services, has raised an additional $3.6 million in a deal led by Morningside Technology Ventures, with University Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank also participating. The money brings the total funding for the Cambridge, Mass.-b → Read More

EdX Adds Shorter Up Skilling Course Series With 'Professional Certificates' (EdSurge News)

CERTIFIED SKILLS: Massive open online course (MOOC) platform edX today announced another addition to its digital learning offerings: Professional Certificate programs, which entail a series of courses centered around specific career skills in fields such as digital marketing, data science and virtua → Read More

Interest in Online Higher Ed Gain (But Campus Based Programs Wane) (EdSurge News)

SEARCH AND DEMAND: Fewer and fewer people are searching online to learn about higher education programs, according to Gray Associates, an education consulting firm. Its latest report (PDF), which tracks student interest through third-party landing pages and Google searches, found that inquiries for → Read More

MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Where Are They Now? (EdSurge News)

I took one of the very first MOOCs, and back then the videos, assignments, and certificates were all free. That was in 2011. Unfortunately, this experience can’t be replicated in 2017.As MOOC providers focussed on finding a business model, they started putting certain aspects of the experience behi → Read More

How Coursera Cracked The Chinese Market

Most U.S. consumer Internet companies have a hard time breaking into China. Cultural differences and the Internet firewall are a huge barrier to entry. Even.. → Read More

How Coursera Cracked The Chinese Market

Most U.S. consumer Internet companies have a hard time breaking into China. Cultural differences and the Internet firewall are a huge barrier to entry. Even.. → Read More