Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 186

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Now pretend that it’s late 2011, and we get into a debate about education technology. I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. Vanguard index fund which tracks the biggest companies on the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges. SMART Technologies.

EdTech 60

EdTech Pearson Chegg Company 60

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

But some companies are jumping the gun. Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. We will use some arcane technology called “blockchain” and distributed ledgers to validate that education software works. TREMENDOUS DEAL!

Chegg 65

Chegg Robotics LMS Android 65

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. The idea was simple. The lesson?

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Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 105

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Bloomz , ClassDojo , Remind ), established companies ( SchoolMessenger ), and other deep pocket players from learning management system providers that already boast significant traction here. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? Yet another LMS. Facebook is. Facebook is.

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EdTech LMS Facebook Chegg 96

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” The company has $8.3 ” Education in the Courts. million total.

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Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? Via The Outline : “The rise and fall of the company behind ’ Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games.” The learn-to-code company has raised $6.9

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55