Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

But in their complaint , plaintiffs Campus Book Company, BJJ Corporation, CBSKY, CBSNM and Renttext.com argue that these subscriptions harm independent bookstores by effectively eliminating secondary markets for course materials. McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, Pearson Education Inc., Cengage Learning Inc.,

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Accessibility Pearson Secondary Course 151

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Another balding founder of a tech company is passing the baton off to a successor. No, this is not the same shellshock as Jeff Bezos’ resignation letter, nor is the company anywhere as big as Amazon. His successor will be Joe Rohrlich, who previously served as chief revenue officer for Bazaarvoice, an e-commerce analytics company.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Combine that with some of the dislocations triggered by COVID and students could be in for some radical changes in the tools that help them learn. The privately held company, which has raised $2.7 The privately held company, which has raised $2.7 Byju’s ambition: build “the biggest learning brand in the U.S.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Kids CoLab helps students target areas of need, build 21st-century skills with hands-on and digital learning. Nine New Jersey elementary middle school students are joining forces with Pearson designers and developers to help the company design features for digital learning solutions.

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Pearson STEM Digital Learning Groups 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

The fortunes of Online Program Management companies, or OPMs, are falling fast these days. These companies, which help colleges set up online programs and often help finance them as well in exchange for a cut of revenues, have lately seen a barrage of bad news. The Pivot What 2U announced was both a pivot and an acceleration.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 122

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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Company Pearson Course Software 91

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

We may be biased (as colleagues at a large and scrutinized edtech company), but we aren’t naïve. The last few years has seen a movement of companies seeking to research and report on the efficacy of educational products. Our own company has been on this road since 2013. Yet we believe there are signs of promise.

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EdTech Pearson Education Company 127

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

They’re rejecting time- and place-based education; creating low-cost degrees; adopting competency- or outcome-based education; emphasizing digital technologies; focusing on populations underrepresented in traditional higher education; and offering pioneering subject matters and certifications.

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Online Learning Education Coursera Learning 168

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

Founded in 2014, the London-based company provides digital content from 2,000-plus publishers. The company has 33 full-time employees with hundreds of thousands of student users. The company has raised a total of $15 million in capital. The company has seen some interest in other parts of North America and Europe.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. Digital-only textbooks accounted for 29 percent, while digital-and-print bundles accounted for 26 percent. It’s a coexistence. Blended is best,” he said.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 157

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 20, 2016

In recent dealmaking news, the social learning organization Brainly acquired the platform OpenStudy, while ed-tech companies Knowledgemtion and Flocubulary gained investments. Brainly Acquires OpenStudy: The Krakow, Poland-based social learning community for students has acquired OpenStudy , a peer-to-peer study help platform.

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Pearson Company Video Digital Learning 45

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

There’s a job opening for a CEO at a global education company with a $6.6 Pearson CEO John Fallon today announced plans to retire in 2020 after a successor has been appointed. Sidney Taurel, chairman of the company’s board of directors, is leading the search for the next chief executive. billion market value.

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Pearson Company Report Strategy 138

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In 2014, a student data privacy controversy sparked around the practices of a new digital learning company inBloom , which then kick-started a debate on student privacy and data storing and sharing that has not yet abated. Others argued that the company was simply protecting the integrity of its tests.

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Student Data Privacy Data Pearson Social Media 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

The demand for innovative digital learning technology has never been higher. But companies looking to differentiate themselves in this increasingly competitive sector have to bring something new to the table. The Boston-based company today announced the close of a $7.5 Both carry decades of educational experience.

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Pearson MOOC Digital Learning EdTech 140

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

This has led to higher education textbook publishers facing the brunt as that’s the only area where students and institutes can reduce their spends, by opting for digital textbooks instead. Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space.

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Trends eBook Education Industry 97

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

SXSW EDU Launch Competition Judge Tony will try his best Judy Judy impersonation, as he joins Bridge Burns (University Innovation Alliance), Vince Chan (Creta Ventures) and Jonathan Rochelle (Google) to dispense advice and feedback for eight companies pitching their wares. Join us for a slice of the action! Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.

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Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 102

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

While some institutions have tried to punt responsibility for the accessibility of digital tools to the companies that produce them, that reasoning hasn’t persuaded federal agencies or judges. Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards.

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Social Media Accessibility CMS Facebook 103

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

PowerSchool purchased an IEP management business while ed-tech companies including Speakaboos, FreshGrade and Nearpod received significant investments. based MAXIMUS partners with state, federal and local governments to provide health and human service programs and solutions to a diverse array of communities, according to the company website.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

About 375,000 students in 32 states are enrolled in statewide online schools, many of which are operated as charter schools or run by Education Service Provider companies such as K12 Inc. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative.

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Education Handbook Course Elementary 212

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The chatbot addition to courses at BI next semester is part of a larger project the school is running to test out a new learning management system. Called Differ, the LMS is a product of Edtech Foundry , an Oslo-based tech company that works with universities.

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Student Engagement LMS Robotics EdTech 60

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. These neatly packaged courses also raise questions about the role of faculty, and who decides what students need to learn.

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Adaptive Learning Software EdTech Course 60

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

For more than 15 years, a group of companies known as Online Program Management providers, or OPMs, have been helping colleges build online degree programs. But it turns out, to my surprise, that it hasn’t been a very profitable model for the companies. It’s an OPM paradox — as companies lose money, colleges make it.

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Coursera Education Pearson Company 123

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Digital learning platforms are not, however, simply a matter of reproducing a print-first approach via high fidelity ebooks. As the financial viability of printed textbooks declines little by little, the demand for alternatives like online learning content continues to grow. Those days are coming to an end.

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Digital Learning Learning eBook Flipped Classroom 113

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. The company reemerged a year later intent on growing its digital offerings and making more strategic acquisitions and partnerships.

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Chegg Pearson Company EdTech 94

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Throughout the year, we’ve seen districts and edtech companies fall victim to these attacks, compelling districts to adopt a defensive stance. The shift towards digital learning has been palpable, and this trajectory is poised to persist, shaping the way individuals access and engage with educational content.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Ever since Pearson sold PowerSchool in June 2015, the two companies have embarked on very different paths. The once venerable publisher axed several high-profile (and profitable) businesses in the Financial Times and The Economist as part of efforts to transform itself into a digital learning business. school districts.

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Haiku Learning Pearson Company LMS 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As well as teaching a graduate course at Columbia Teacher''s College in Educational Technology and directing the Technology and Innovation at The School, he is an author for Pearson''s Interactive Science Program (a K-8 Science series for 21st century schools). Father Goose).Sea

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Earlier this week representatives from Pearson, the Bill Gates Foundation, the Center for Education Reform, American Public Education, Inc. Here are the five policy implications that edtech companies are watching closely. You can’t just start talking about digital learning if they [educators] have never heard of it.

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Policies Pearson EdTech Education 70

Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

People with knowledge of the school described it as “run like the company of WeWork, subject to constant changes or ‘disruption,’ sometimes without full consideration for the children these changes impact.” Pearson sold its US K-12 curriculum business for $250 million. Something about "learning engineers". Udacity got a new CEO.

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Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The transformation towards digital has been accelerated impacting all aspects of education including learning materials and content. Many colleges and universities have invested in technology, laying emphasis on education facilitated by digital and remote learning techniques. A comprehensive learner audience.

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eBook Gamification Education OER 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

On his company’s latest quarterly earnings call, 2U CEO and co-founder Chip Paucek shared an example of why he brought his company—an online graduate program manager for colleges—into the coding bootcamp business. Still, the company reported a net loss of $44.6 That demand has fueled our boot camp product’s rapid growth.”

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Company Report Pearson Course 79

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? The company sells a tablet for use in prison.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” (Related: “Theranos investor Tim Draper blames the company’s downfall on an investigative journalist,” Business Insider reports.). ” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school company. Meanwhile on Campus… Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ U.

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Education MOOC Coursera Company 46

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Via The MIT Technology Review : “ MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading.” The 3D modeling company has raised $2.8 3DBear has raised $1.5

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Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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