Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

A most disruptive year to schools and society proved lucrative for the education industry, particularly for those raising private capital. education technology startups raised over $2.2 billion in venture and private equity capital across 130 deals, according to the EdSurge edtech funding database. edtech industry.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

We are just getting started with voice technology in education. From simple commands that retrieve stored information to a future where voice-activated AI coaches help us set and reach educational goals across a lifetime, the potential for growth is undeniable. We are just getting started with voice technology in education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. The company, which was started by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and is now one of the most well-funded in the education industry , has always been highly picky about which colleges it works with to develop courses.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Much of that money will apparently go toward paying off debt and covering fees related to going public, though officials say they are also putting $1 million in a donation to “philanthropic initiatives to benefit K-12 educators.” She called the pandemic a “seminal moment” for edtech.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Parent builds edtech. So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 31, 2017

In my newest book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (out soon), I’ve dedicated one of the missions to citizen science projects. Mark your calendars, because no student or educator should miss this historic event! Lessons and Resources.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. Those funds will be used to purchase a privately held education company, which will then become public as a result of the transaction. Moe has picked some winners in education. public market.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. As people are forced to learn from home, some online educational services are in greater demand than ever. But investors’ checkbooks remain open.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa Mierow It’s no secret that voice-enabled technology is taking off in the domestic sphere, but how is this increasingly robust technology impacting education? To find out, we talked to Marissa Mierow, who leads Alexa Education at Amazon, delivering innovative experiences for both students and developers focused on education technology.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

That MOOC space includes online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” Coursera, which went public last year , and edX, which lost its nonprofit status when it was bought by the for-profit company 2U last year. Either way, Meta’s possible entrance into the market plays into a long-standing fear of big tech in the edtech industry.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2023

The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. educational institutions shared that data with third parties.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education investing. We think those markets have a lot of raw talent of entrepreneurs, and a rising middle class that makes for a strong underpinning” for education and economic growth.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In April 2020, MOOC providers Coursera, edX and FutureLearn attracted as many new users in a single month as they did in the entirety of 2019. Coursera has already capitalized on these circumstances: it doubled its valuation and is considering going public in 2021. These learners also turned out to be more engaged than usual.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

That experience spurred him to co-found Coursera. Apparently one of those projects is his new online course sequence, which is being offered through Coursera. Coursera may be looking for a blockbuster these days. Andrew Ng taught one of the most-viewed online courses of all time—more than 1.5

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Coursera went public , while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. In March, Coursera went public on the NYSE, raising $519 million. million) and how much Coursera paid its university partners ($281 million). In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The global education technology industry is headed for a record-setting year when it comes to venture capital investments. companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. A less frothy but steadily growing edtech market is emerging in Europe, where investment check sizes often have fewer zeros.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In the past, experts have made big projections for the global edtech market, with some groups estimating as much as $252 billion pouring into the market by 2020. Because of limited edtech providers in Mexico, Najera relies on products from the United States and Spain. You know education is not a big business in Mexico.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

education technology sector in 2019. According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66 edtech industry in 2019 is largely mirrored across the broader venture capital landscape. based education companies that raised a round of at least $250,000.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

tech firms, including edtech players. China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. At Coursera, we’ve seen registered users in China climb by more than 500 percent between 2013 and 2016, crossing the one million mark in 2015. billion by 2018.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

Department of Education would require OPMs to give up revenue-sharing and adopt the more conventional fee-for-service, subscription or other approaches instead. According to edtech consultant Phil Hill in a recent blog post , most revenue-sharing ventures have either lost money or barely reached breakeven.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Although some academic institutions and educational professionals still doubt the high value of eLearning software, technology-based education is no longer a myth. And the Covid-19 pandemic has proved that EdTech and eLearning are integral parts of modern academic reality. Let’s find out. Let’s consider some reasons why.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

COVID-19 has transformed the education technology landscape in ways few could have anticipated. Online learning—often touted as an up-and-coming way of delivering education—took its place on the world stage as the de facto model, regardless of how prepared students, employees and educators were for the experience. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The education industry didn’t. School closures have forced people to not only rely more on digital tools in the short term, but also reimagine what education can be once it’s safe to return. Here is a recap of the biggest and most popular edtech business stories of 2020. Traffic Is Booming for Online Education Providers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But now that companies like Coursera have grown into edtech giants— the company went public in March and is valued at more than $3 billion—he was curious to see what their offerings are like these days. Let’s face it, we do have competition in traditional higher education. Robert Talbert: It was absolutely a lot of that.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

Today’s move is expected to have little impact on the company’s strategy, meaning little will change for educators who use Canvas. That’s because even with the IPO, Thoma Bravo will maintain majority ownership of Instructure, notes Phil Hill, an edtech consultant and blogger. “I

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

What happened to this market that many analysts consistently describe as profitable and growing, and that many critics fret would take over and privatize much of higher education? The Acceleration The acceleration is that 2U is going all in on the education platform strategy that started with the company’s acquisition of edX last year.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). put $150 million in Hero K12 , and Bain Capital, whose Double Impact Fund is on the hunt for promising (and lucrative) education teams.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

EverFi is a rare breed of education technology company that can boast a wide reach. It not only covers the K-12, higher education and corporate training markets, but its staff also work in some of the most remote corners of the country. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Coursera CEO Rick Levin.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Not yet convinced?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Not Buying Your Education Startup.).

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is a podcast for all education trailblazers seeking the cutting edge of professional growth. As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” Like online marketplaces—in education and elsewhere—Course Hero has also wrestled with issues of copyright infringement. According to Grauer, more than 30,000 college educators across the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2021

edX had fallen behind rivals like Coursera, a similar platform founded by Stanford University professors, in fundraising and reach, though it still boasts 35 million users and more than 3,000 courses. Phil Hill, an edtech consultant and blogger, said that even though edX grew during the pandemic, it lacked a clear direction.

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