Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The education industry didn’t. Here is a recap of the biggest and most popular edtech business stories of 2020. The maker of the Canvas learning management system, which went public in 2015, announced a $2-billion offer from private equity firm Thoma Bravo last December. to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online.

EdTech 92

EdTech Coursera Udemy LMS 92

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Private equity and venture funds have invested record sums into the global education sector—$30 billion in the past five years across K-12 and workplace learning. Teachers and administrators are hungry for effective ways to teach social and emotional learning,” says former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Trends 173

Trends EdTech Education Company 173

Lightspeed Systems

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Industry Veteran to Drive Company’s Continued Growth and Further Enhance Client Experience Austin, Texas —November 6, 2023—Today, Lightspeed Systems® , the edtech market leader in digital safety, security, and equity solutions, announced the appointment of Craig Chanoff to the role of Chief Revenue Officer.

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System Pearson Blackboard EdTech 69

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. Source: New Markets Education Partners.

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EdTech Blackboard Kaplan Company 115

Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

In the latest dealmaking news, Workday acquired online learning platform Zaption, while Blackboard teamed with Dreamit to support ed-tech startups. Workday Acquires Zaption: Workday , a provider of enterprise cloud management applications for human resources and finance, has acquired online learning platform Zaption.

Blackboard 53

Blackboard Company Industry EdTech 53

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. I’ve always thought of the U.S. While here in the U.S.,

Online Learning 128

Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 128

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). short-lived experiment in the coding bootcamp industry ). Home-run bets and financial windfalls are rare in the edtech industry.

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EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 97

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds.

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EdTech Kaplan lynda.com Company 140

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. So what else is next for the Salt Lake City-based edtech company? One name floated by company watchers is Ray Henderson, the former chief products officer at ANGEL Learning.

LMS 96

LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 96

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

Online Learning 129

Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 129

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Parent builds edtech. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. Now, a couple with similar industry cred has a similar vision—along with plenty of funding. Now, a couple with similar industry cred has a similar vision—along with plenty of funding. “We

Coursera 113

Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 113

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

-based 21st Century Cyber Charter School (21CCCS), teachers and administrators rely on learning tools such as Edmentum’s Study Island , Blackboard Collaborate and Moodle to identify student needs and trends. It helps with grouping students so we can make recommendations and move their path. “It At K12 Inc., Content Subtype.

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Outcomes Data Blackboard Moodle 296

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced Education Technology finalists. Their innovations stand to improve the teaching and learning experience for teachers and students here in the U.S. and globally.

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IXL Learning Technology Pearson Education 60

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2017

For the 39 months in between, we lived in the era of flashlight apps, an industry worth billions of dollars. This shift is happening in education technology as well, notably with the learning management system (LMS). Edtech products designed on the LTI standard can serve as “plugins” to these LMSs.

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LMS Sakai iPhone Moodle 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

While the emergence of “edtech” and the growing tide of investment towards this industry has led to a seemingly endless proliferation of new startups claiming to be in service of education, the perception of many educators, including some of my professors at Penn, is often one of skepticism. Blackboard Inc.,

Education 83

Education LMS Moodle EdTech 83

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas , Moodle and Schoology , Google’s Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers’ eyes. In short, Classroom wants to be a lightweight learning management system.

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System Google Schoology LMS 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Wayland Baptist University professor Don Ashley received a call this week from a student saying she couldn't log in to her learning management system (LMS), preventing her from attending a live online lesson. For example, if an LMS did not cooperate with Safari, then after running a scan, TechReady.io Jay Sample says TechReady.io

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Company LMS Blackboard Classroom 100

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

ASU+GSV Summit , now in its eighth year, has assembled yet another potent cocktail of education industry stakeholders from different walks of life. We’ve tried to make this event much more broader just another ‘edtech conference’ and to encompass learning and talent development,” says Li Jiang, Vice President of GSV Asset Management.

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Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 77

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Edtech, I believe, is going through a similar rebuilding moment powered by three trends: widely available infrastructure, the catalytic impact of spending by both the government and philanthropy in education, and—finally—the embrace of edtech by educational institutions and educators themselves. Not yet convinced?

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 159

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

In the daily edtech trenches, the forest is easily lost for the trees. The central stage featured a projector screen the size of several blackboards, a live band and a variety of furniture for interviews. He grouped these advances into three broad areas: The digitization of information, machine learning and medicine.

Robotics 93

Robotics Blackboard LMS Libraries 93

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

A most disruptive year to schools and society proved lucrative for the education industry, particularly for those raising private capital. billion in venture and private equity capital across 130 deals, according to the EdSurge edtech funding database. edtech industry. Edtech investing exploded in 2020.

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 200

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. But we’d say no.

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Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 100

ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

By incorporating creativity into the classroom, students can gain a renewed enthusiasm for learning and develop skills for their future careers. Education technology (EdTech) can support this by allowing students to have fun as they participate in interactive and collaborative activities.

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Outcomes Gamification Blackboard Classroom 317

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition).

EdTech 170

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition).

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

You don’t need to be an expert in the Blackboard Collaborate platform to help (we give you training and then live help at the time), but it makes a HUGE different to presenters to have a moderator helper in their session rooms, and we try to make sure there is one for every session! Principal, St.

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Conference Education Case Study Blackboard 44

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. NovoEd aimed to offer online learning experiences that retained the social and collaborative nature of in-person courses with the hope that students would stick around.

Online Learning 96

Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 96

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

It chronicles the rise and fall of Theranos, a company that promised to revolutionize the medical industry by running a complete slate of tests using only a drop of blood (rather than the more voluminous quantity of blood that can be rather frightening to have drawn). DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million.

Trends 93

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 69

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

Lately I’ve seen quite a few edtech companies that hope to graduate from offering a free product to actually monetizing it. Edtech companies that offer supplementary content or a digital tool for teachers and students are best sold bottoms-up. Why your position in the Edtech Products Quadrant matters. Bottom up or top down?

Technology 60

Technology How To Education Software 60

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The region boasts an unusual concentration of highly-valued tech startups—Domo, Qualtrics and Inside Sales are among them—along with big education companies, including Instructure, the developer of the Canvas learning management system. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. Kamau Bell.

Coursera 72

Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 72

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via Buzzfeed : “The Industry That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration.” Via Edsurge : “A Timeline of Google Classroom ’s March to Replace Learning Management Systems.” ” “ PEARSON alized Learning” by Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. It lives.).

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

com : “Boy, 8, drives to McDonald’s after learning how online.” This week, Edsurge covers a charter school there and its promotion of “ personalized learning ” and assessment technologies. “Can a District Disrupt the Edtech Industry ?” Lumen Learning has raised $3.75

Education 45

Education MOOC Facebook Report 45

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” Via Edsurge : “Golden State GDPR: What the Edtech Industry Should Know About CA ’s New Privacy Rules.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Google , Expanding on HBCU Pilot, Launches ‘Tech Exchange’ to Boost Diversity in Industry.” Blackboard is rebranding Moodlerooms as Blackboard Open LMS.

Education 58

Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 58

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.” “ Is Blackboard dying? “ Can AR/VR Improve Learning? ” Racist. It was racist.

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” Via The Washington Post : “There’s a well-funded campus industry behind the Ann Coulter incident.” Can Electrical Stimulation Help Us Learn?” “Zap! ”). .”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

There’s more for-profit higher ed news – and how the Trump Administration has deep, deep ties to this industry – in the for-profit higher ed section below. ” – “This includes how long-distance learning programs are defined.” Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.”

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43