edtech
Cisco Teams Up With Instructure To Move The World’s Largest IT Classroom To The Cloud
The Cisco Networking Academy is the largest education program in the world you’ve probably never heard of. The Academy, which is Cisco System’s largest and longest-running corporate responsibility program, partners…
JoyTunes Wants To Teach You To Play Real Instruments With Interactive Video Games
Today at the LAUNCH Education Conference in Mountain View, an Israeli startup named JoyTunes showed off the work its been doing in an exciting and active space: The convergence of…
Big Data For Higher Ed: With $4.1M From First Round, Floodgate, Former Kaplan Exec Launches Civitas Learning
To improve academic outcomes and keep students in school, teachers, learners and administrators need access to insight in realtime. Big data, predictive analytics, machine learning and recommendation engines are transforming…
Gasp! Thanks To These Startups, Teachers Are Making Money On The Web
On the whole, teacher compensation in the U.S. is embarrassing. To pick on marketers, some might see the fact that the average marketing manager makes twice the average salary of…
BenchPrep Teams Up With The Princeton Review To Gamify Test Prep
For a while now “gamification” has largely existed as a buzz word. It’s felt just as ridiculous to write the word as it is to read it. However, as Tim…
Pathwright Launches Platform To Let Anyone Create, Sell Branded Online Courses
Education is changing, and startups like Coursera another, CodeAcademy, Treehouse, StraighterLine, Khan Academy, Lynda.com, and Udacity,(among others) are all carrying the torch for online education and the flipped classroom. But…
Smart Education: How Lynda.com Hit $70M In Revenue Without A Penny From Investors
Content companies have struggled to monetize on the Web, and there has been plenty of debate over the effectiveness of paywalls. What’s more, tech startups really can’t seem to rush…
As It Graduates From Network To Platform, Edmodo Now Serving 7M Users, 80K Schools
Edmodo is one of the startups whose name pops up a lot when you talk about “edtech.” Founded in 2007, the company is almost old school, yet, in spite of…
Social Collaboration Platform For Students Wiggio Hits 1M Users, Launches Paid Version
Wiggio, an online collaboration service designed for students, has been flying under the radar since raising $2.1 million in funding back in spring of 2010. The company has been slowly and steadily…
With A New Educational Platform, TED Gives Teachers The Keys To A Flipped Classroom
You may know TED, not as the guy from marketing, but as the nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” — or as the set of global conferences, Talks, and…
1M Users Strong, Schoology Grabs $6M To Take On Blackboard, Moodle
Schoology, the makers of a one-stop, cloud-based learning management system for primary and secondary schools, is announcing today that it has closed a $6 million Series B round of venture…
Publishers Sue As Boundless Learning Grabs $8M For An Open Alternative To Textbooks
It seems it’s a big news day for eBooks and eTextbooks. Google is winding down its eBook service for indie publishers, while Apple and top publishers are the subjects of…
With $25M From Benchmark And Larry Summers Advising, Can Minerva Build An Online Ivy?
Well, we’ve said it before: Technology is changing education. It’s flipping the classroom, bringing instructional videos to the masses, and dragging online higher education into legitimacy. Investors have begun to…
2tor Raises $26M D Round To Put Online Degrees In The Same Class As Their On-Campus Rivals
If you’re unfamiliar with 2tor, this may do the trick. Today, the education startup is announcing that it has closed a $26 million Series D round of financing, led by…
Now With 1.5M Lessons, ShowMe Launches v2.0 To Bring Khan Academy To The Masses
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen an auspicious rise in the number of startups looking to tackle those seemingly intractable problems in both K-12 and higher education. One…
Now On iOS And Android, 2tor Brings Higher Education To Mobile Students
There’s a growing focus on the intersection of education and technology, from Apple’s initiatives to reinvent the textbook and Inkling’s efforts to take virtualized textbooks to professional publishers to Bertelsmann…
Technology Cannot Disrupt Education From The Top Down
Computer technology has penetrated the classroom for thirty years with little impact. After hundreds of “disruptive” education startups, the best innovation in education is still the chalkboard. This isn’t the…
Late Nite Labs Raises $1.1 Million To Bring Virtual Science Education To Campuses
Supplemental learning resources stand to play a significant role in the changing educational landscape. The fact of the matter is that, while we might be in a higher education bubble,…
