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?

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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

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. It also excludes publicly traded companies and funding that startups received just for participating in accelerators.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. There’s nothing glitzy about the software itself.

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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.

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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. There’s no sense in advocating fifty new educational technology tools to teachers who still struggle daily with MS Word, email or printing. Indeed, he is the Justin Timberlake of educational innovation.

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