article thumbnail

Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

Edsurge

Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001. Last week Instructure, which makes the Canvas learning management system, went public , and Coursera had its IPO in March. PowerSchool’s journey has gone like this: It was founded in 1997, back in the early days of the web and before smartphones, tablets or social media even existed.

EdTech 167
article thumbnail

Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. NYSE: NRDY).

EdTech 180
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Fueled by Big Rounds, Edtech Funding Surges to $887M in First Half of 2017

Edsurge

EverFi $190 million $251 million Hero K12 $150 million $150 million Grammarly $110 million $110 million Coursera $64 million $210 million AltSchool $40 million $173 million MasterClass $35 million $56.4 These triple-digit rounds feel “disproportionate to where the market for education technology has been,” he says. Round Size.

EdTech 90
article thumbnail

Campus Closures. What’s Tech Got to Do With It?

Edsurge

alone, educational technology companies raised $1.2 Some of this investment will be conventional—computer-lab renewal, classroom technology, network upgrades and such. Educational technology investments can affect colleges and universities in different ways, as I've elaborated elsewhere. In the U.S. For sure. “If

article thumbnail

Daphne Koller Bids Farewell to Coursera, Hello to Calico

Edsurge

Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller has ridden the MOOC craze as the company’s CEO and later president. This field has been a passion of mine since 2001, when I first started working on it at Stanford.” Koller co-founded Coursera with machine-learning expert and fellow Stanford professor Andrew Ng in 2012. 17 blog post.

article thumbnail

Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Hack Education

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. The technology simply isn’t that good yet. In December 2012 – we all remember 2012 right? I use the verb “summoned” deliberately.

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” ” Victoria University of Wellington has joined edX.