Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

When I started my first edtech business in 1998, our competitor Blackboard had less than 10 employees and customers. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before. NYSE: NRDY).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Neck and neck for the top spot in the LMS academic vendor race are Blackboard—the early entry and once-dominant player—and coming-up quickly from behind, the relatively new contender, Canvas, each serving about 6.5 Coursera is reportedly nearing a valuation of $1 billion , which would make it a “unicorn” in Silicon Valley parlance.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 126

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

EverFi $190 million $251 million Hero K12 $150 million $150 million Grammarly $110 million $110 million Coursera $64 million $210 million AltSchool $40 million $173 million MasterClass $35 million $56.4 There’s a theory that if you establish a strong brand on one area, you can acquire others to create complementary services.”. Round Size.

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EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 93

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. But the most interesting developments are happening a little further downstream.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 159

Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

He recommended an Indiana framework project he helped build, along with Stanford’s NovoEd platform , which might be better than Coursera in terms of creating an ecology of learning. Curt responded by seeing infrastructure as complex. It also has more tools for collaboration + project-based learning.

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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Roblox is followed by Coursera and CampusLogic, which respectively offer online courses and financial management tools to colleges and universities. Michael Chasen, the co-founder of learning management system Blackboard, raised $16 million for a new startup, ClassEDU , that is building classroom management tools on Zoom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. In those days the platform was called Venture Lab, and 78,000 students from 150 countries signed up for its first course, which was on technology entrepreneurship.

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Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 99

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Coursera (online education): $210.1 Neither Pearson nor Blackboard, companies that were quite active in gobbling up startups a year or so ago, bought a single company this year. Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $585 million. EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. million. (One

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Recordings : all conference sessions are recorded and are available almost immediately after being given. Be sure to come sign up on the conference website to be notified of recording availability.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

Coursera (online education) – $64 million. Coursera (online education service provider) – $210.1 GSV (Voxy, Raise.me, MasterClass, CreativeLive, Nearpod, Coursera, Motimatic). Learn Capital (investments: Paragon One, Outschool, Mystery Science, Coursera). Hero K12 (behavior management) – $150 million.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

4:00PM: DistruptED: Who Are the Real Disruptors in Higher Ed and The Future of Work with Louise Rogers (TES Global), Chip Paucek (2U), Dennis Yang (Udemy), Rick Levin (Coursera), Vish Makhijani (Udacity) Wednesday. 2:00PM: Mapping EdTech Globally by Navitas Ventures. 2:00PM: Mapping EdTech Globally by Navitas Ventures.

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Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 71

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” The for-profit: Laureate Education (which once began as the tutoring chain Sylvan Learning and is now an investor in Coursera, I always like to point out). ” The claims are based on Blackboard data, published on the LMS company’s blog. Meanwhile on Campus. It’s how frequently they check their grades online.”

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Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” From the Coursera blog : “ Coursera for Business Is Now Available to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.” ” Via the press release : “ Blackboard Bringing Contactless Student IDs to Apple Wallet for Campuses Nationwide.” ” The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard. Edsurge celebrates by reprinting Blackboard founder Matthew Pittinsky’s blog post “4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Education technologies and digital technologies that cater to students, teens, and children experienced several breaches and vulnerabilities of their own: Blackboard , Code.org , i-Dressup , OurTeenNetwork , OKCupid , and UKnowKids.com , for example. You know what’s cooler than a million hacked Yahoo accounts ?)

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. ” “About The Blackboard Partnership With IBM And Amazon Web Services ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.). “ Blackboard ’s Debt Grows While Canvas Gains Contracts,” says ELearning Inside News.

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. .” There’s an infographic (but perhaps no cognitive scientist on staff, eh). ” Try learning styles, maybe.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. NovoEd co-founder Amin Saberi was replaced by Ed Miller, a former Blackboard exec. Blackboard replaced its CEO. Throughout the year, Hill and Feldstein dutifully chronicled all the updates (or lack of updates ) to Blackboard, Pearson , Instructure , Schoology , D2L , and the like. (So

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” Via Campus Technology : “ Coursera ’s CEO on the Evolving Meaning of ‘MOOC’ ” There’s more ECOT news – there’s always more ECOT news – in the “state and local politics” section above. .” Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.”

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Education MOOC Blackboard E-rate 54

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. The company IPO’d in 2015 and finally surpassed Blackboard’s US market share in 2018. Coursera has raised over $310 million. What mattered to this crowd was the business of ed-tech, not the pedagogies. And for a time, the business of Instructure was good.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

In Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor ’s.” ” “Coursera and other purveyors of massive open online courses supposedly signaled the end of traditional credentials and, as some told it, universities. A teacher in front of a blackboard. Vive la MOOC révolution.

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? .” MOOCs are not particularly "open." The College Affordability Crisis.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. It’s 2017, and ed-tech is so “disruptive” that we’re still debating the LMS , a technology that is at least 30 years old (and that’s just if you date it to the founding of Blackboard.

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing Coursera for Governments & Nonprofits.” ” From the HR Department.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40