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.

Strategy 133

Strategy Coursera MOOC Company 133

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. It’s an ultra-exclusive club of two dozen companies across the world, according to CB Insights. Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5 billion.

EdTech 121

EdTech Chegg Udemy Industry 121

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Manufacturing Trends.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In addition to shopping for applications, he hopes to build partnerships with companies that can support him and his school throughout the tech implementation process. She is following some of the tutoring companies at ISTE, noting that many are seeking partnerships with United States companies.

EdTech 123

EdTech Trends Coursera Company 123

Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

This year’s list surfaces some familiar trends. And Pearson is still around. What’s Next for Pearson? But has Pearson, the world’s biggest education company, finally turned the corner on its rocky digital transformation journey? They all agreed on one thing: Companies are bought, not sold.

EdTech 112

EdTech Pearson Industry Student Data Privacy 112

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

AUGUST 3, 2016

After all, I could simply describe the stories I was covering—like the future of a nuclear power plant, or a trend of drug overdoses. We’re constantly adding new lessons, and we’ve secured an amazing partnership with NPR and are working with Pearson. And every time, I struggle to answer. Our team is talented and extremely committed.

Pearson 150

Pearson Trends Company Report 150

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. Panels and keynotes covered the latest industry trends. All the big companies wanted to find out who the new ones were. edtech companies, marking the highest tally of the decade.

Industry 149

Industry Conference EdTech Student Data Privacy 149

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

You might notice a common trend among these jobs. Below you can find a full list of important skills extracted from the Future of Skills report , created by Pearson. Nowadays, digital skills are required in the majority of jobs and companies want to hire graduates that have knowledge of digital technologies. Robot operator.

How To 334

How To Digital Citizenship Robotics Pearson 334

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As early excitement about Zoom gave way to questions and concerns about privacy, security and unequal access, other companies seized the opportunity to elbow their way into the new competition for digital communication tools appropriate for preschoolers and college students alike. But Zoom has held on. It’s high energy.”

Company 174

Company Education Kaplan Learning 174

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 These diverging patterns are reflected in the graph below, with the upward trend in funding total (green bars) and downward slope in dealflow (red lines). billion—does not account for companies whose primary product and service focus on student loan refinancing. Source: EdSurge.

EdTech 89

EdTech Pearson Company Knewton 89

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

Fuller, who has covered the edtech industry for over a decade, recently shared her take on current trends on edtech mergers and acquisitions. Maybe the most notable transaction, more perhaps for negative reasons, was the Pearson deal, which got done for next to nothing. Many of these deals happened at very attractive EBITDA multiples.

Industry 106

Industry EdTech Knewton Trends 106

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2023

This huge trend in learning options has completely changed the landscape for school administrators. It’s about what kind of tools can we give school district leaders so that they can make decisions with facts, rather than feel, and supply them accurate information on what’s being used, who is using it and who is using it well.”

Data 52

Data Pearson Software Outcomes 52

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Employees pay $1 a day to participate, and the company covers “tuition, books and fees,” according to an explanation of the program on the retail giant’s website. Gallagher says that past studies show that about five percent of employees take advantage of tuition benefits by companies. Walmart, the largest private employer in the U.S.,

Study 100

Study Pearson E-rate Training 100

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week’s filing was made by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, and it says that in the short run, allowing the marriage of the companies would create a duopoly in the textbook market, with the new combined publisher rivaled in size only by Pearson.

Advocacy 92

Advocacy Groups Pearson Education 92

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.

Kaplan 157

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 157

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

I work on a freelance basis, turning your company's data into earned media coverage by telling compelling, data-driven stories through graphics and text. Her broad experience in the education field has included sales, marketing, and administrative positions with prominent companies such as Kaplan, Inc.

Trends 36

Trends Handbook Kaplan Company 36

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. 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. It’s a coexistence.

Chegg 156

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 156

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” The company has raised some $77.5 ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

How powerful would it be if a CEO who just sold his company for a million dollars got on the microphone and said: ‘I worked really hard for this. But I was also born into a fairly well-to-do family and my parents gave me my first investment, which made it a lot easier to start this company,’” Anhalt said, drawing laughter from the crowd.

Company 107

Company Conference Pearson Industry 107

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. What better place to reveal the results of a national survey about trends in IT than at Educause? STATE OF THE IT DEPT.:

Pearson 60

Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

edWeb.net

MAY 25, 2021

During the edWebinar, “ Educators Have Spoken… This Is What Industry Partners Need to Hear,” the speakers presented trends and observations from edWeb’s recent edFocus Industry Summit and offered advice for vendors on building and maintaining connections with their customers. The question is: Are the changes here to stay?

Industry 52

Industry Trends Pearson Professional Learning 52

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

This trend is likely to continue; experts at IBM have hypothesized that knowledge could double every 12 hours as the internet of things grows. But the track record of these options has been mixed at best, as evidenced by the recent trend of boot camps going out of business.

Education 108

Education Trends Software Pearson 108

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Open-licensed learning materials have generally been slower to carve out a spot in the K-12 market they have in higher education, where companies like Lumen Learning have found target demographics. Yet Open Up Resources , a nonprofit providing open educational resources for the K-12 space, wants to buck the trend. Larry Singer.

Resources 83

Resources OER Pearson Common Core 83

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 12, 2016

The investment group provides advice and financial consulting to middle market companies in the technology and information space. Fledgling Ed-Tech Companies’ Pace of Early Fundraising Slows. The value of the deals over that time period, meanwhile, jumped by 52 percent, to about $18 billion, said Berkery Noyes.

Industry 40

Industry Pearson Analysis Education 40

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

That entailed working with organizations as varied as Audi, Jewish day schools and Pearson on projects that ranged from running professional development and team-building workshops, to piloting Nintendo Labo in the classroom. Beginning in 2015, the group pursued fee-for-service work to generate revenue and become less dependent on grants.

Game-Based Learning 139

Game-Based Learning Pearson Training Report 139

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Prior to igniting the flame that grew to be Acumen Partners in 2012, Steve engaged in principal leadership positions in leading organizations including Pearson, McGraw Hill, Master Teacher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and EdLights. The EdFocus community hosts webinars that are live meet-ups, keeping you up-to-date on the latest trends.

Common Core 40

Common Core Pearson Industry Guidelines 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“It’s a clear trend,” said Tom Hilliard, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, which primarily studies economic growth in New York. Hilliard chose 2012 to capture normal test-taking trends before the 2014 exam change. But Pearson, which co-administers the new GED, and Data Recognition Corp.,

Comparison 100

Comparison Data Secondary Report 100

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Among those who have turned it into a livelihood are tutors, publishers like Pearson and Scholastic and printers. Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California.

Common Core 147

Common Core Analysis Trends Data 147

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

Trends 93

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. satisfaction, engagement, grades, mindsets, attitudes, persistence, views, logins, clicks, etc.

Education 60

Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions provider for K-12 education, announced it is partnering with Analytic Measures Inc. AMI) , an educational technology company, to provide a fully automated assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to measure K-5 students’ reading abilities.

Company 68

Company Tools Assessment Pearson 68

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

education technology companies raised $1.45 And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. On the whole, bigger but fewer deals is a trend common across all U.S. Last year, U.S. The funding total in 2018 also eclipsed the $1.2

EdTech 141

EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 141

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Twelve years ago, Amplify CEO Larry Berger and I wrote about the “ pareto distribution ” of companies in the K-12 sector. Most revenue was generated by a few winner-take-all companies, then there was a long tail of subscale operators. The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson.

Industry 78

Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 78

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

On their syllabus: networking and identifying the latest market trends in the education industry that can drive a company’s growth—and, of course, financial returns. At the turn of this century, most publicly-traded companies attending the event were operators of for-profit colleges and universities. He expects more to come.

Edmentum 102

Edmentum Education Company Industry 102

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.

Chegg 93

Chegg Pearson Company EdTech 93

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Paul Belfanti, a content management strategist who’s worked with both Pearson Education and Ascend Learning, explains: Richly tagged learning objects, matched with learning objectives and skills, will be key to shifting from print-centric offerings to dynamic and engaging learning ecosystems. It’s not just convenient, it’s also effective.

Digital Learning 112

Digital Learning Learning eBook Flipped Classroom 112

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). On the agenda were one-on-one interviews with company CEOs and panel discussions on opportunities and challenges in different markets. Viva Amtrak!

Industry 115

Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 115