Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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Udemy Kaplan Industry Coursera 129

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? Politics and Policies FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Connect to Compete , a new non-profit initiative that brings private industry and the non-profit sector together to help expand broadband adoption and promote digital literacy. What makes this newsworthy?

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

It chronicles the rise and fall of Theranos, a company that promised to revolutionize the medical industry by running a complete slate of tests using only a drop of blood (rather than the more voluminous quantity of blood that can be rather frightening to have drawn). Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

More on student loans (namely, people in powerful political office with connections to the student loans industry) in the politics of education section above. Udemy has a new CEO : “Kevin Johnson, former CEO of EBates, a marketplace for coupons and shopping discount deals.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.” Noteworthy: this is the third recent ed-tech investment by Naspers – a South African media conglomerate and “ the former mouthpiece of apartheid ” – which recently backed Udemy and Brainly.).

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Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain. Google released a handful of updates timed with ISTE, including Google Cast for Education which I heard someone say was the product most enthusiastically received by educators at the conference. .” Try learning styles, maybe. A screen sharing app.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Online education (admittedly, a very generic category): Investments include Udemy ($60,000,000), DigiSchool ($15,700,000), MasterClass ($15,000,000), UNICAF ($12,000,000), OpenClassroom ($6,740,000). The learning management system is a piece of “enterprise” software after all. The Elephants in the Ed-Tech Room.

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