Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Udemy (skills training): $173 million. Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.” ” “About The Blackboard Partnership With IBM And Amazon Web Services ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics. ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 40

Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain. One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. Other updates: an Expeditions app, quizzes in Google Forms, a partnership with TES , a physical coding project. . .” Try learning styles, maybe. A screen sharing app.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

NovoEd co-founder Amin Saberi was replaced by Ed Miller, a former Blackboard exec. Blackboard replaced its CEO. Online education (admittedly, a very generic category): Investments include Udemy ($60,000,000), DigiSchool ($15,700,000), MasterClass ($15,000,000), UNICAF ($12,000,000), OpenClassroom ($6,740,000).

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40