Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. The first half of 2019 saw 123 deals of over $100 million.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. Another dashed hope was the digital tutor made by a New-York-based company called Knewton, which one education consultant rated as “snake oil” in an NPR story in 2015.
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Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” The Internet was going to change everything. The Macintosh computer was going to change everything. And on and on and on. ”).
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) I’m not sure it was, but then again, understanding the LMS industry is really their thing and not mine (something for which I am eternally grateful). Subscribe to their blog.
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). Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Vive la MOOC révolution.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. Udacity got a new CEO. LOL LOL LOL.
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