Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Coursera (online education): $210.1 Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6 ” Tutoring is the cornerstone of technological fantasies about “personalized learning.” Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million.

Trends 93

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

.” I made that selection in part because several ed-tech companies indicated that year that this was what they hoped to become – the MOOC startups, for example, as well as Edmodo, a social network marketed to K–12 schools. AltSchool is another Silicon Valley company working on a “personalized learning platform.”

Trends 64

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For a time, Edmodo was quite the ed-tech industry darling. Can Edmodo Turn Virality into Profitability?” Diamond Dove.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. Betteridge strikes again!

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

A report from VC firm GSV Acceleration : “It’s a Breakout: Capital Flows In the Learning and Talent Technology Market.” ” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.”

Education 46

Education Data Report Software 46