Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. Source: EdSurge Fewer, but Bigger Seed Rounds. Education technology investments appear to be on a similar trajectory. million in 2017.

EdTech 89

EdTech Pearson Company Knewton 89

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. Students were therefore unable to sit their A Levels, the exams that are the culmination of secondary education there.

Robotics 83

Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

RSCON5 will take place July 11th - 13th, 2014 and will feature 60+ presentations, 2 plenaries, 10 keynotes, student presenters, and much more. Education Revolution Google+ Community 2014 MoonBots Challenge. George Bartan reminds us that the 2014 MoonBots Challenge is under way. Or sign up to be an Inpire Presenter !

Conference 52

Conference Education Learning Common Core 52

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed. Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “ State Testing Disruptions Likely Produced Dips and Gains in Student Scores, Study Says.”

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Michael Teitelbaum, a scholar on the history of STEM, said in 2014 to an audience of education reporters that the post-war U.S. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world. See: the LMS, the MOOC. Only “1.86

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.” Jobs for Grads.

Technology 40

Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40