With $12.5M in funding, will Knewton make the grade?
GUEST: Knewton, an online test-prep startup, just raised $12.5 million in funding from FirstMark Capital. An admirable feat. So forgive my skepticism. During my sophomore year of college, I was a...
View ArticleStormWind seals $4M funding deal for online learning
StormWind isn’t just a 1984 single by Swedish heavy metal outfit Europe. Nor is it merely a human kingdom in the MMORPG World of Warcraft. It’s also an online IT and bespoke-training company that’s...
View ArticleGrockit steps beyond test prep with Learnist, bringing social learning to...
Grockit has made a name for itself when it comes to social learning for online test preparation, but with Learnist the company is looking beyond just helping you with the SATs: Now you can learn...
View ArticleUdacity nabs $15M to make online education less boring
Is Udacity the future of education? Andreessen Horowitz seems to think so. The venture capital firm is giving $15 million to the online education site, which says it plans to democratize higher...
View ArticleStumped by math at midnight? Instaedu says it’ll hook you up with the right...
It’s almost midnight, and you’re stuck on a math problem that is due first thing in the morning. In stressful situations like these, online tutoring startup Instaedu can help. The Silicon Valley...
View ArticleCoursera signs on 29 more schools to offer free online courses
Ed-tech startup Coursera has announced that 29 more schools will offer courses on its online platform, bringing its total to 62 schools. This latest round of expansion clearly demonstrates that the...
View ArticleSchool out, tech in: Welcome to the future of education
GUEST: This is a guest post by Dale Stephens, founder of the “UnCollege” movement At the 2007 EG Conference for youth and young adults, Kevin Kelly told the audience that 10 years ago no one would...
View ArticleDigital learning finds a bigger home in California’s state university system
SAN JOSE, Calif. — California’s colleges are facing a funding crisis, so universities are turning to massive open online education (dubbed “MOOCs”) to bolster pass rates and help students graduate on...
View ArticleUdemy: Our top 10 instructors together made $5M
Online-learning platform Udemy has just released some rather astonishing statistics. The startup said it’s closing in on a big user milestone with 800,000 students and serves up more than 8,000...
View ArticleiLiteracy: New iPad app teaches little ones how to read
Stephanie Dua spent most of her career working in education reform. She’s also a mother of three; a few years ago, one of her daughters needed help learning to read. Dua sought guidance from colleagues...
View ArticleOneClass takes $1.6M to apply the Jerry Maguire strategy to college
Need some lecture notes? How about an exam guide, or perhaps a video tutorial on Statistics 220 exam at the University of Toronto? Let’s call it the Jerry Maguire strategy: Help me help you. OneClass,...
View ArticlePenelope Trunk’s new startup is crazy, creative, insane, and genius — just...
Penelope Trunk has always been about careers. And she’s always been about off-the-wall suggestions, wacky ideas, and colorful ways of expressing them. Her new startup, Quistic, is exactly like her. On...
View ArticleHow Jordan’s Queen plans to ‘democratize access’ to education
Most of the new online education providers are based in the United States, but over two-thirds of students live abroad — in places like Rwanda, El Salvador, and Jordan. This trend makes sense, given...
View ArticleDiscovery unveils Curiosity.com to inspire everyday learning (exclusive)
Discovery Communication has satisfied the world’s curiosity for nearly 30 years, teaching us about things as varied as why men have nipples and the mischievous machinations of beavers. Today the...
View Article50 startup lessons for 2014: AngelList, KISSmetrics founders help kick off...
Entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs alike are learning how to start, build, and grow their startups in 2014 with 50 almost-weekly lessons from Launch This Year. And the teachers include AngelList’s Naval...
View ArticleCoursera is now offering a ‘Specialization’ program for professional learners
Massive open online courses providers — dubbed “MOOC” providers by the press — are finally starting to grow up. Today, the best-known MOOC provider, Coursera, announced a “Specializations” certificate...
View ArticleSmart Sparrow raises $10M to make studying online feel less lonely
Despite the potential for online courses to democratize higher education, the sector has experienced setbacks lately. A major cause for these disappointing results, some claim, is the extremely common...
View ArticleBeyond the hype: How ed-tech can really impact student success
GUEST: This is a guest post by ConnectEDU‘s chief executive Evan Nisonson I recently read the Horizon Report – an annual review of trends in education and, technology – and was struck by how some of...
View ArticleCodecademy gets a major redesign to take the pain out of learning how to code
Two years after launching, and with more than 24 million users learning how to code on its platform, Codecademy is getting a facelift. The New York City startup unveiled a sleek new website redesign...
View ArticleI'm building algorithms to help people learn, not to replace them, says...
SAN FRANCISCO — Declara founder and chief executive Ramona Pierson is a math whiz and former Marine who survived a horrible accident and relearned basically every normal human function. And now she’s...
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