Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. Codecademy has been on our radar for a long time, as one of the early, long-standing leaders in online learning,” said Amit Patel, Owl Ventures’ managing director. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2019

In an interview with EdSurge, Moe reflects on his path that took him on a “25-year passion” in the education industry, and what lies ahead. We took [what became] Bright Horizons public and Renaissance Learning. At the time, healthcare was a large industry—like 8 percent of GDP—but it was a cottage industry and wildly fragmented.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

By mid-March, schools closed, sending students home to figure out how to keep learning from their kitchen tables. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Never before have schools and colleges so urgently needed digital tools and services to facilitate remote learning—and been less able to afford them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. Bond was founded by Mary Meeker, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins whose annual “Internet Trends” reports have become a must-read for the technology industry. Education industry analysts say that trend is emerging in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

But not all sectors of the market follow that rule, says Jeff Silber, a managing director at BMO Capital Markets who follows the education industry. Many schools, parents and students are realizing that you can’t just press a button and learn.” Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

From Formula 1 to Yelp, industries across the board are seeking ways to apply machine learning to their work. But how is machine learning playing out in education—and how does it impact not just students, educators and parents, but also the businesses building technology tools to support teaching and learning?

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. From 2011 to 2014, U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The 34-year-old felt rewarded in his job as a seventh-grade teacher, but he knew that a job in the tech industry would yield more pay plus more time with his wife and his two kids. He spent about three months of 2019 learning to design programs. Costanoa Ventures, Learn Capital and Blue Fog Capital participated.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space. This led higher education textbook publishers to shift towards digital publishing , albeit reluctantly as they learned that digital is the only way forward. Switch to Digital Publishing: There’s no escaping the digital revolution.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

based company’s leadership remained foggy on some aspects of its strategy to survive in an increasingly competitive industry. A fellow publicly traded education technology company, Chegg, has promised low-cost courses with its own bootcamp acquisition, Thinkful. But the Lanham, Md.-based million year over year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

But up until last week, three of those publishers—Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning—were suing Follett over alleged counterfeit sales. I think this sends a message to others in the industry to what the expectation is now. Ingram Book Group, MBS Textbook Exchange and Valore.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. Returning backers include what Garvey calls “strategics,” the industry parlance for organizations that operate in the same sector. Jennifer Carolan, co-founder and managing partner at Reach Capital The Palo Alto, Calif.-based

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 11, 2024

These roles not only complement our primary job as educators but also open doors to new experiences and learning opportunities, reinforcing our commitment to lifelong learning. Chegg Tutors : Chegg is a popular platform that connects students to tutors in a wide range of subjects. Featured Second Jobs: 1. Consulting 3.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Students will have the chance to connect directly with celebrities in one-on-one tutoring sessions through Chegg Tutors: VIP Edition. All tutoring sessions will take place this fall through Chegg’s online tutoring platform, Chegg Tutors. New program helps stars extend influence, interest in education.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

But educators and industry watchers have plenty of questions about the marriage of these long-time rivals, and about what it will mean for professors and students. use digital course materials, estimated Hansen, meaning that “80 percent of the students are still learning like my parents learned—with a book and with a teacher.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

To support that effort, the startup has raised $1 million in a seed round from a group of investors that include Metallavon VC, an early-stage investment fund based in Greece, and LearnStart, the seed fund affiliated with edtech investment firm Learn Capital.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been about five years since Cengage Learning filed for bankruptcy , stumbling under the weight of shrinking print sales, a rough transition to digital and too much debt. We as an industry have chosen for a long time to basically ignore that—or have more or less been paying lip service to them. Let me put some numbers around it.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

Frontline Education, controlled by Insight Venture Partners, has snapped up another 10—most recently, professional-learning provider School Improvement Network. short-lived experiment in the coding bootcamp industry ). Home-run bets and financial windfalls are rare in the edtech industry.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Usually, when a hot startup gets acquired by an even hotter one, the industry cheers. It had about $8 million left at the time of the deal, EdSurge learned, and MissionU is returning that cash back to its investors. Few, if any, of MissionU’s financial backers publicly celebrated the transaction on Twitter or elsewhere.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The industry has spawned celebrity millionaires in South Korea. This week, Varsity Tutors raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Learn Capital, an education-focused venture firm. Wealthy families fork out more than $1,000 an hour for top teachers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He envisioned a game-based educational platform used by teachers and students to learn about science and the environment. Esther Wojcicki, the esteemed journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, joined in 2016 as the company’s chief learning officer. Magnates from the gaming industry have attempted as well.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. Related: Can the US Higher Education Publishing Industry Leverage A Subscription Model. Related: Are etextbooks More Affordable Than Textbooks.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. You disagree and say that we’re both better off investing across a wider variety of industries. Cambium Learning Group. At the end of five years, whoever’s portfolio is worth more will be the winner. Instructure.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. CONTROL+ALT+DELETE: In the biggest blockbuster deal that the industry has seen since Prussia was on the map, ControlSchool merged with AltSchool and DeleteSchool.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. 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. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Discover the future of learning in the AI age and gain insights into the innovative solutions reshaping classrooms.” 00:05:05 Speaker 1 Basic administrative duties that we all have, and no matter what sort of industry that we’re that we’re living and working in, we’re already using it, right. Have a listen.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

” Challenging forced arbitration clauses has been one way the CFPB has taken on the student loan industry. Via Buzzfeed : “A Close Ally Of Mike Pence Is Helping The Shady Student Debt Relief Industry.” “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

” Via Techcrunch , which never ceases to amaze me with how readily it acts as a stenographer for the tech industry: “As some pricey coding camps fade away, Codecademy barrels ahead with affordable paid offerings and a new mobile app.” The language learning company has raised $12.5 ” Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The learn-to-code company has raised $4.6 Juni Learning has raised $790,000 from Arielle Zuckerberg, Jessica Livingston, Adora Cheung, and Deborah Quazzo for – you guessed it – private tutoring. . has raised $4.5 million from Marc Andreessen, Andrew Chen, Bloomberg Beta, Reach Capital, and Y Combinator. million total.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.”

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

“Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “What a Controversy Over an App Tells Us About How Students Learn Now.” Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

For that, we invented a concept called Learning Gadgets. Learning Gadgets are almost like little apps. If you want to track your learners, if you want to see the progress of your learners, if you want to bring in the information from the quizzes into your learning-management systems, then you have to buy. Young: Thank you.

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