Edsurge
APRIL 9, 2018
This time, it’s Edmodo , one the largest online social communities of teachers and students in the world. million for Edmodo. Edmodo was started in 2008 by a teacher and IT support person as a “Facebook-like” community aimed at connecting educators with students and with one another. Also like Facebook, Edmodo grew rapidly.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 24, 2018
And we’re filing stories that capture the essence of the edtech industry in 2018. And Pearson is still around. But the edtech industry has hit some bumps along the way, wrestling with collateral concerns from the public spotlight over data privacy and security. What’s Next for Pearson? If you buy it, you better use it.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 15, 2019
edtech startups in 2017. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration).
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JUNE 30, 2016
The large publishing companies ( Pearson , McGraw Hill ), technology players ( Google , Amazon ), and more well established ed tech ( Edmodo , BrainPOP ) all have a lot of real estate, including about a dozen people on the floor, and presentation theaters. Our goal isn’t to be competing at the level of Edmodo,” said Kim.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
The GAO relied on a private database of cyber attacks and leaks collected by Doug Levin of EdTech Strategies, a consulting firm. For example, a major breach at educational testing company Pearson during the 2019-20 school year affected an unknown number of student records in thousands of schools. The GAO counted that as one incident.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 4, 2018
So far 30 such content creators have been green-lighted, ranging from high-school teachers and college professors, to brand-name publishers including Kaplan, Penguin Random House, Oxford University Press and Pearson, which is selling a handful of English vocabulary materials. Collecting a lot of resources is easy.
Edsurge
APRIL 5, 2019
The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson. The first includes the “eyeballs-first” players—companies like Remind, ClassDojo, and Edmodo, who all adopted a “West Coast” approach: collect active users now, with plans to monetize later. Time will tell how these strategies play out.
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