Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. Last year, Great Hill also put in $110 million in Connexeo , a provider of school administration and payment software. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
“Before, our only options were to send people to a training, sit in a course, and learn the material–whether from a university or a week-long certification,” says Shelly Holt, vice president of global learning for SAP, a leading enterprise-software company. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5
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Mark Smithers
JANUARY 20, 2014
Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.
Edsurge
APRIL 3, 2018
The product, which was initially a computer science MOOC, was developed as a skunkworks project within Amplify and spun out as an independent company in July 2015. Edhesive traces its origins to Amplify, the New York City-based digital education company that was once owned by News Corporation.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. At first sight, one might think they were employees coding the software, rather than the ones learning from it. There’s nothing glitzy about the software itself.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
billion, this year’s funding total is the second-highest tally, following 2015 (which saw $1.4 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. billion across 126 deals.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2016
In 2015 the University of Michigan established the Digital Innovation Greenhouse (DIG) as part of the Office Of Academic Innovation—a group charged with fostering a culture of innovation in learning in order to reimagine the 21st century public research university. Welcome talented student contributors.
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