Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. In addition to the Engrade and Smarter acquisitions, another Rethink portfolio company, 2U, went public in 2014. bought for $75 million in 2014 by Pluralsight, which offers more than 5,000 online courses. Lessons From K-12.

EdTech 60

EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” Via NSBA’s Legal Clips blog : “ Satanic Temple withdraws request to start after school club at Washington state elementary school.” Some say… “What to Ask When Choosing Tech for Schools” – a new Lynda.com course offered by Edsurge (which is funded in part by Lynda.com’s founder.

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Colleges Whose Undergraduates Borrowed the Highest Average Amounts in Federal Loans in 2014–15.” ” Good grief, the handwringing.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix.

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59