Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

With support from ED, state leaders, and new platforms for curation and discovery, there has never been a more exciting time to rethink traditional, static instructional materials. The Office of Education Technology ( @officeofedtech ), has lead the charge on OERs, and has compiled various resources on their GoOpen site.

OER 100

OER Future Ready Edmodo Education 100

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today, the graveyard of K-12 edtech marketplaces is littered with stalled attempts, many from companies that are no longer around. That’s a lesson that the team behind Edmodo, a classroom management and collaboration platform, quickly learned. Collecting a lot of resources is easy. Collecting good resources is hard.

Pearson 99

Pearson Kaplan Company Education 99

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

I exclude technology from this analysis). If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. It was a technology company, delivering test prep on a computer screen instead of in a paper workbook. billion or so.

Industry 86

Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 86