Josh Nester

Josh Nester

Education Director

SEEK

Josh is Education Director for SEEK, an Australian-born global pioneer in online employment and education, with a US$5BN+ market capitalization. Josh and his team have in the past 15 years placed SEEK at the forefront of edtech investment globally. Examples include establishing Australia's largest online university platform business (Online Education Services or OES), leading Coursera's latest investment round, acquiring 50% of FutureLearn (in Europe's largest ever edtech deal) and partnering with a US non-profit university to deliver US degrees to Latin America online in Spanish. He currently serves on the Boards of education businesses across 4 continents including OES (Australia), UTEL (Mexico), Avenu (US) and Caelum (Brazil).

Tuesday, March 31st

2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Harbor Ballroom B, Harbor Tower, 2nd Level
Live Stream

2012 was the year Higher Education was said to have changed forever. The arrival of Coursera and Udacity (with EDX and FutureLearn soon after) was heralded as a watershed moment for Higher Education. While the hype cycle ran its course, MOOC platforms provided millions…

Chris Dede, Simon Nelson, Josh Nester, Luyen Chou, Goldie Blumenstyk