Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

billion loss in 2016. Earlier this month, McGraw-Hill, Barnes & Noble Education and Chegg teamed up for a new digital textbook rental program that the trio claims can help students save as much as 70 percent from buying print copies. Specifically, 32 percent of its sales came from digital offerings.

Pearson 111

Pearson Chegg Company Instructional Materials 111

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

The nonprofit publisher of K-12 curriculum launched in 2016 expecting an audience for its digital offerings. Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 163

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). According to our tally, there were 58 U.S. deals that totalled more than $887 million through June of this year. This means that halfway through 2017, the funding for U.S. Six of the deals took at least 10 years to materialize.

EdTech 105

EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

By the middle of 2016, our edtech basket contained 11 different companies. As of August 15, 2016, the value of my edtech portfolio has grown 16 percent. a share in May 2016, it was down 88 percent from January 2012. For several days in July and August, edtech had even outgained the rest of the market in 2016. Instructure.

EdTech 60

EdTech Pearson Chegg Company 60

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

million, starting with a $3 million seed round in 2016, and followed by a $8.5 Did MissionU’s investors lose out? At first glance, it would seems so, based on the $4 million of stock that was part of the deal. MissionU had raised $11.5 million Series A round in 2017. But MissonU had only spent a portion of that money.

Chegg 86

Chegg Company Industry Data 86

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Its biggest institutional shareholder is Insight Venture Partners, a private equity firm whose education portfolio also includes Chegg, Instructure and Pluralsight—three companies that have gone public. million convertible debt note from Rethink Education in 2016, the company has been bootstrapped. But it almost didn’t happen.

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Chegg Education Company Libraries 141

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He had the money, at least $13 million raised by July 2016. Esther Wojcicki, the esteemed journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, joined in 2016 as the company’s chief learning officer. In the agreement with Clark County School District, nine middle schools agreed to the Planet3 pilot program from August 2016 to May 2017.

Education 83

Education Company Chegg Pearson 83

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” “The Current State of Educational Blogging 2016,” according to Edublogs’ Sue Waters. No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone. Very thorough research, gj. ” Via the ANOVA : “Study of the Week: Computers in the Home.”

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Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145