Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Starting with a $100 million fund in 2015, Owl has since raised two subsequent funds— $185 million in 2017, and $315 million in 2019. Since 2015, Owl has invested in 39 edtech companies. edtech companies raised $803 million in the first half of 2020. bought by Byju’s—also an Owl portfolio company—in August).

EdTech 121

EdTech Company Training Survey 121

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Over the years, it saw the most success in education and the company shifted to focus specifically on that market. The founders had to bootstrap the company in its early days.

Company 167

Company Industry Software EdTech 167

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. Teachers, students and parents report that they see great advantage to digital learning.

Online Learning 40

Online Learning Learning Blended Learning Assessment 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

From the earliest stages, as Pre-K parents search for activities and resources to nurture their child's growth, to K-12 schools adopting technology to improve student outcomes and operational efficiencies, the impact of modern learning tools is undeniable. Meanwhile, a trend that began in the 1990s was picking up steam — one-to-one computing.

EdTech 122

EdTech Outcomes Data Education 122

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. For example, the United States ranked 39th in math on the 2015 PISA test. Four regions in mainland China, including Beijing and Shanghai, collectively ranked 6th in math and in 2015. Photo: Chris Berdik. ranked 13th.

Assessment 223

Assessment Exercises Groups Video 223

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. According to Jacobsen, “as districts struggle to fill teaching vacancies, they are increasingly turning to companies like Proximity to teach core subjects.” She cited A.P.

Blended Learning 52

Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Online Learning Software 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA). It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc.,

E-rate 126

E-rate Pearson Company Report 126

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

Company 95

Company Video Broadband Report 95

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. The two companies officially signed the deal at 6 p.m.

Company 118

Company Education MOOC Conference 118

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2016

edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 Those tallies dipped from 2015, which saw 198 deals that totalled $1.45 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 Or, from a different perspective, U.S.

EdTech 89

EdTech Udemy Company Coursera 89

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

Coursera 155

Coursera lynda.com Training MOOC 155

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

A 2015 report found that the lack of AP classes may increase the financial burden on college-bound rural students: Students who don’t take AP classes don’t earn college credit that could enable them to graduate more quickly, and such students are “more likely to pay for additional remedial coursework when beginning college.”.

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc.

Secondary 300

Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

While online education companies offer engineering, programming and business skills, one company wants to make sure that the fine arts isn’t being left behind. Launched in June 2015, the Valencia, Calif. Launched in June 2015, the Valencia, Calif.-based percent compared to the previous year.

Coursera 60

Coursera Education Adobe MOOC 60

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Machine learning algorithms support adaptive, personalized and spaced learning, while natural language processing technologies help with the extremely complex challenges associated with understanding and translating human language. Launched in 2015, Ponddy Education makes AI-supported language-learning products and services.

Software 147

Software Company Study Flipped Classroom 147

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

I literally used to tell people that if we ever do something in early learning, it should be as good as what the Duck Duck Moose team does. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. And they were also not just edu-tainment.

Khan Academy 165

Khan Academy Learning Meeting Company 165

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2020

Launching during Teacher Appreciation Week, Swing Tutors matches classroom substitute teachers with students based on their grade level and subject area needs to provide additional real-time, one-on-one support in a secure online learning environment. About Swing Education.

Online Learning 53

Online Learning Mobility Company Training 53

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

Walmart, Lowe’s, Discover and Lyft are just a few of the companies that have signed on to offer employees education-as-a-benefit, meaning these companies help students pay for—or completely cover—the cost of tuition for education programs. million since it was founded Rachel Carlson and Brittany Stich in 2015.

Education 63

Education Company Trends Secondary 63

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

- Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

Education Elements 60

Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

However, that does not mean there are not a lot of new items to look through, as sites/apps for programming/coding, Math/STEM, and Game Based Learning played a predominant role in this year's list. Code Kingdoms - One of my favorite sites for learning how to program (Javascript) by drag-n-dropping blocks of code (i.e Scratch). .

Android 28

Android iPad Game-Based Learning Differentiated Instruction 28

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Companies like LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer, which have created a do-it-yourself model for legal services, and others like Ravel and ROSS that improve lawyers’ research and productivity, have changed the profession and business models. What’s so punishing is that the good days are over.

Competency Based Learning 103

Competency Based Learning Advocacy Online Learning Training 103

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Another review , conducted by respected researchers in math education (but funded by a calculator company), came to a similar conclusion. There has recently been much online hand-wringing over this state of affairs, with commentators aghast at the continued dominance of graphing calculators when compared to inexpensive or free apps.

Smartphone 132

Smartphone Secondary Tablets Company 132

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

Education 55

Education Secondary Dropout Online Learning 55

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As more nonprofit colleges and universities bet their futures on online offerings, many are turning to for-profit companies to help create and advertise their new digital degree programs. There, he helped 2U raise nearly $100 million, and left shortly before the company went public.

Company 73

Company Pearson Report Course 73

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. The company claims on its website that it’s near that goal, with more than 7.2

Sony 108

Sony Learning Company lynda.com 108

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

Pearson today announced that it is responding to rocky conditions and poor performance in international markets by laying off 4,000 workers and putting a greater focus on adaptive courseware and classroom products, as well as blended and online learning.

Pearson 40

Pearson Company Education Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It receives funding from the state of Utah to provide online learning to rural children and has launched pilot programs in several states across the country, including Mississippi. One kindergarten-readiness program offers children the promise of academic growth in as little as 15 minutes a day, five days a week.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Data Report Groups 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

They created 2Rev as an education design lab—a place where designs for innovative learning models could be developed and tested. From 2008 - 2011, the company worked on projects spanning early childhood, grades K-12, higher education and the workforce, while simultaneously crystallizing its philosophy.

Competency Based Learning 60

Competency Based Learning Company Learning Blended Learning 60

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 6, 2016

A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week. Udemy Raises $60 Million: Udemy , a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, received a $60 million strategic investment from Internet and entertainment group Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division.

Udemy 40

Udemy Company Software Google 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts.

STEM 129

STEM Report Course Study 129

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A venture capital firm backed in part by retired NBA basketball superstar Kobe Bryant is making its first-ever education investment in an online tutoring company for Chinese children who want to learn English. The company offers one-on-one English language instruction with curricula based on the Common Core State Standards.

Common Core 40

Common Core Flipped Classroom Company Learning 40

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 7, 2016

The SIIA group will now represent about 230 member companies that provide educational software applications, digital content, online learning services and related technologies to the K-20 sector, according to Karen Billings, vice president and managing director of the network. . and GSV Advisors, she said.

Industry 40

Industry Technology Education Software 40

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

Tools 89

Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 89

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Tagged on: July 21, 2017 A complex web of factors influence children’s commercial media literacy | LSE Business Review → If they don’t know an ad from information, how can they grasp how companies use their personal data? million federal grant to study online credit recovery | LA Times → L.A. Unified gets a $3.26-million

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. DeVonté Trask, 11.

Personalized Learning 100

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

Liam Pisano, managing director of LearnLaunch, an organization that supports the ed-tech community and offers an accelerator program, said in a statement that the partnership would enable his organization to offer “more expertise to the ed-tech startup community to help grow their businesses and transform learning.”. based school provider.

Knewton 40

Knewton Kaplan Learning Company 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to a 2015 study commissioned by the U.S. The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? There was actual real-life stuff in that class.

Company 111

Company Report Trends Study 111