Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Print textbooks are the eternal punching bag for the things people think technology should render obsolete. spending on PreK-12 instructional technology steadily ticked upwards, from $2.6 In Pearson’s preliminary 2018 results released in February, the publisher said it expects flat revenue or even a 5 percent decline for its U.S.

Chegg 159

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 159

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Three of the country’s largest publishers, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, are suing Follett Corporation, a major textbook distributor, on charges of selling counterfeit textbooks in its stores. Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc.

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Pearson Chegg Company Industry 72

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Follett Corporation, a textbook distribution company, announced this week that it has agreed to adopt a set of “ Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices ,” a list of guidelines co-developed and endorsed by four major textbook publishers. Booksellers who have taken those steps already include Barnes & Noble Education, Chegg, Inc.,

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Elsevier Chegg Pearson Guidelines 63

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. The bull is back—or is it? Round Size.

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EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 94

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. Instructure.

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EdTech Pearson Chegg Company 60

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

Big names in the publishing industry like Cengage and Pearsons have already moved to digital publishing and have built their loyal customer base. With new technology constantly evolving with new and enhanced features to improve the student learning experience, textbook publishers needed to keep up with them.

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Trends eBook Education Industry 97

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

As origin stories go, the founding of Blackboard twenty years ago lacked that single light bulb moment that tech companies like to tell. Colleges were spending millions networking classrooms and residence halls, and I wondered about the absence of technology in the “front office” for teaching and learning. The idea was simple.

Blackboard 99

Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 99

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

The company reemerged a year later intent on growing its digital offerings and making more strategic acquisitions and partnerships. Over the last 10 years or so, the majority of the acquisition activity for smaller edtech startups came from the big textbook companies. I think Pearson has seen it.

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Chegg Pearson Company EdTech 98

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. Some employees hoped the company could turn around and stayed on without pay. “We Planet3 found its biggest backer in Rob Roy, CEO of Las Vegas-area data center services company Switch, which invested $10 million in the company in 2015. Nineteen states and D.C.

Education 79

Education Company Chegg Pearson 79

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

I love this headline from Campus Technology , which echoes the wise words of Bill and Ted from their excellent adventure: “ Ed Tech Changes … and Stays the Same.” ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. million total.

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Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

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.” “​ Pearson to Lay Off 3,000 More Employees,” says Edsurge.

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). ” Via Campus Technology : “ Southern New Hampshire U to launch Competency-Based Master’s in Online Ed.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ Unizin Partners with edX , Cengage.” ” (No.

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MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Wall Street Journal : “ California plans to sue one of the nation’s largest student loan companies.” ” That’s the Indiana Agriculture and Technology School , which Chalkbeat investigated earlier this year.

Education 46

Education Pearson MOOC Chegg 46

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage this week, knocking many education companies who use AWS offline.

Education 40

Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” (I’m including this here because all of these entities – Kushner’s family, the companies he received loans from – have education investments too.). .” National) Education Politics. These Schools Already Do.”

Education 48

Education Chegg MOOC Broadband 48