ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Khan Academy videos feature teachers describing their lessons in drawings on virtual blackboards, helping students and visual learning centers bring home maximum results. Khan Academy is another highly popular learning app that features video tutorials to drive home classroom studies.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

When I started my first edtech business in 1998, our competitor Blackboard had less than 10 employees and customers. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY) is down 52.4 LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Facebook Classes has been compared to Udemy, an online course platform which raised hundreds of millions of dollars during the pandemic based on the idea that anyone can teach video classes. [link] — Austen Allred (@Austen) May 26, 2022. Meta’s offering appears to be more tied to live events, though.

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Facebook Course EdTech Video 115

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Former Blackboard CEO Raises $16M to Bring LMS Features to Zoom Classrooms. Udemy Got $50M. Established companies raised money in greater amounts; longtime edtech entrepreneurs re-entered the market with new startups. US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online. Duolingo Just Raised $35M.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

Disclosed angel investors include executives from Apple, Dropbox, Blackboard, and Udemy, according to various news reports. -based Reach Capital, alongside Zuckerberg Education Ventures and Chinese education services provider TAL Education Group.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Just ask Duolingo and Udemy, which each closed a pair of investment rounds in 2020. 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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Udemy (skills training): $173 million. Neither Pearson nor Blackboard, companies that were quite active in gobbling up startups a year or so ago, bought a single company this year. Coursera (online education): $210.1 Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 Microsoft bought three companies in 2018.

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