TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The rivalry between China’s top online learning apps has become even more intense this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Another popular online learning app in China is Yiqizuoye, which is backed by Singapore’s Temasek. Chinese online learning app Zuoyebang raises $750M.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

In Bangladesh, students often rely on after school learning centers for study help or test preparation, but many of the best ones are concentrated in major cities. million seed round co-led by returning investor LearnStart (the seed fund of edtech investment firm Learn Capital) and Anchorless Bangladesh. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. From math problem solvers and note-taking tools to book trackers and summary apps, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite educational and organizational apps for students to try this year.

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Gyrus

JULY 10, 2024

10 Best Online Learning Platforms in 2023 Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems With the growing need for remote learning options, particularly in the post-COVID world, the market for online learning platforms has experienced a remarkable surge in demand and expansion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Unacademy, an online learning platform in India, has added two more marquee investors to its cap table. The Bangalore-based startup, which focuses on K-12 online education, said on Wednesday it has raised new funds from Tiger Global Management and Dragoneer Investment Group. billion in September , when SoftBank led the round.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Top 10 Online Learning Platforms in 2024 Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems With the growing need for remote learning options, particularly in the post-COVID world, the market for online learning platforms has experienced a remarkable surge in demand and expansion.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

10 Best Online Learning Platforms in 2024 Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems With the growing need for remote learning options, particularly in the post-COVID world, the market for online learning platforms has experienced a remarkable surge in demand and expansion.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Top 10 Online Learning Platforms in 2024 GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - With the growing need for remote learning options, particularly in the post-COVID world, the market for online learning platforms has experienced a remarkable surge in demand and expansion. which enhance the learning experience.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Top 10 Online Learning Platforms in 2024 GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - With the growing need for remote learning options, particularly in the post-COVID world, the market for online learning platforms has experienced a remarkable surge in demand and expansion. which enhance the learning experience.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The seven-year-old company, with physical schools across the globe in addition to its core online platform, will split in two. As those locations shut down, Holberton quickly moved its curriculum online and last year, Holberton pivoted to mostly focus on SaaS and began offering a white-labeled online learning platform to others.

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TechSpot

MAY 23, 2022

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a crackdown on online-learning platforms that may be excessively gathering student data. It says that this data collection is often mandatory, leaving parents with no recourse but to accept it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Comcast is launching a program to provide free Wi-Fi in community centers as part of an effort to improve internet access for students in low-income areas, the company said Thursday. The lift zones are meant for students without ready internet access or a place to study.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And Farrell is a former executive from another pair of major online learning companies, Trilogy and 2U. “Younger kids need face-to-face contact, but in college, many students are now juggling work, family and studying, and online can be much more convenient.” gallery ids="2060568,2060569,2060570"].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Now, nearly a year since students were first sent home because of the coronavirus, a cohort of edtech companies is emerging, emboldened with millions in venture capital, ready to take back the market. Upon joining the platform, each student is placed at a virtual table with another small group of students.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

There’s a large education gap in Vietnam between urban centers, which have access to more resources, and the smaller cities and rural areas where 80% of students live. Edupia , an online learning platform, is bridging that divide with its live classes and private tutoring. This brings Edupia’s total funding to $16 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. In today’s survey, thirteen top edtech investors shared their thoughts on how growth of lifelong learning is reshaping the industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

ULesson , an edtech startup based in Nigeria that sells digital curriculum to students through SD cards, has raised $7.5 The startup, which uses SD cards as a low-bandwidth way to deliver content, saw a wave of smart devices enter homes across Africa as students adapted to remote education. million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Campuswire is now used at more than 300 universities among 200,000 students, Oyerinde tells me. As professors moved online, lectures moved to Zoom or tools built atop of Zoom. Hudson lectures at Stanford occasionally, and working with Campuswire allows him to teach a broader set of students.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Indian edtech giant Byju’s, which raised over a billion dollars last year as the pandemic accelerated the adoption of online learning services in India, is about to begin a new fundraising spree. which offers online coding classes to school-going students in India and the U.S., Byju’s acquired WhiteHat Jr.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 20, 2020

For example, offer discounted memberships for: Students. Make sure your online benefits (website, online community, online learning programs) are mobile-accessible so prospective members know they will be able to take full advantage of their membership benefits. Provide discounts. New graduates. First-year members.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round (following a $5 million seed round in March of this year), making it one of the most funded edtech startups in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP), a region that encompasses 160 million students. Abwaab on tablet.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2016

Institutions of teaching still wholly relied on the skill and effectiveness of the individual standing in front of a chalkboard to impart information to a hopefully wide-eyed audience—no matter if they were first graders learning their multiplication tables or medical students delving into the maze of human anatomy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In the two years since, Yuanfudao has doubled its total users to 400 million students across China. Today’s funding suggests that it will push more live, online coursework and broaden out its closed loop system of learning. Its goal then was to fund and bring more AI into its products, and improve its user experience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Having better tools to teach remotely are critical for situations when the physical experience has to be shut down, but even when things are “back to normal”, better tech can still enhance what educators and students can do, and to whom teaching can be delivered. in the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2021

The 8-1 ruling determined that students’ rights to free expression outweighed the school’s interest in preventing potentially disruptive speech — in this case, a snap captioned “f**k school f**k softball f**k cheer f**k everything.”. He said that student Brandi Levy — identified as B.L. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Fiveable began years ago as a free, online learning community for high school students with the focus of helping them pass Advanced Placement (AP) exams. It grew in popularity as it livestreamed five-hour “cram shops” focused on a specific subject, created study guides and managed a Discord with thousands of students.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Uolo , an Indian edtech platform that works with private K-12 schools to offer online learning programs to middle and low-income families, has raised $22.5 The vast majority of edtech startups operate in a business-to-consumer model and spend on ads to reach the parents and guardians of the students. million students.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Class, launched less than a year ago by Blackboard co-founder Michael Chasen , integrates exclusively with Zoom to offer a more customized classroom for students and teachers alike. On the instruction side, Class for Zoom helps teachers launch live assignments, quizzes and tests, which can be completed by students in real time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The company, founded in 2015 by Charles Lee and Harley Trung, who previously worked as software engineers, pivoted from offline to online in early 2020 to bring high-quality technical training to everyone, everywhere. Vietnam after-school learning startup Marathon raises $1.5M “Coding is the future. pre-seed round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. Today, we have over 750 courses, which we believe is the largest catalog of corporate training available in Spanish today, as well as great features that help students apply what they learn.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Developed with an active learning model that lets students take the lead in classes, Strive wants to instill in them a lifelong love of STEM subjects. million students in international schools.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Nathan Parcells is co-founder and CMO of InternMatch , an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers. Startup cultures are one of a kind, and they make great, immersive learning environments for students and recent graduates. Connect with Nathan and InternMatch on Facebook , LinkedIn , and Twitter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The price for Class ranges between $10,000 to $65,000 annually, depending on the number of students in the classes. Higher ed has already been taking this step towards online learning, and they’re now taking the next step, whereas K-12, this is the first step they’re taking.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The London startup currently has 400,000 paying subscribers who get all-you-can-read access to some 850,000 titles — textbooks, fiction and other literature that students are assigned as coursework at universities and other higher-learning institutions. Some 40% of the students that use Perlego are in the US.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Some edtech entrepreneurs predicted that the trend would usher in a new wave of homeschooled children, which would disproportionately favor affluent families that could afford pod-learning to begin with. This process makes sure that students get access to a replacement from a traditional school that still meets core standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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