Edsurge
MAY 13, 2021
Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say. And how is edX doing by comparison?
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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Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds.
Edsurge
JANUARY 19, 2017
Except that analogy doesn’t really work, because education isn’t a product, and most professors bristle at comparisons to the corporate sector. Many of the new academic-innovation efforts at colleges started about three years ago, amid widespread hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. boasts merely 120,000 enrollments.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.
Fractus Learning
JANUARY 17, 2017
Trust me, he’ll like this comparison!) The company failed to see “the writing on the wall” and failed to innovate. If you need proof: last year I participated in an Innovator’s Mindset MOOC (#IMMOOC) conducted by George and several of his high-profile colleagues. Indeed, he is the Justin Timberlake of educational innovation.
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