Join us for a lively Happy Hour, an extension of the Games and Education Industry Collider! Building upon the conversations sparked at the collider event, this happy hour provides a… Read More
Steven Halliwell, chief product officer for Promethean, calls himself a change agent. In his current role during the COVID-19 pandemic, that has meant pushing for new approaches internally and with… Read More
DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson is a quote machine. As she explains the whys and hows of her successful math education software company, which raised $130 million in venture capital… Read More
Pronita Mehrotra has a plan for helping kids stay a step or two ahead of the machines and robots that lurk in the wings, ready to make humans obsolete in… Read More
DreamBox Learning, the Bellevue, Wash., maker of an adaptive K-8 math education platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised a whopping $130 million. The funding comes exclusively from The Rise… Read More
Lumen Learning, a Portland-based startup that offers college students access to open courseware, today announced that it raised a $2.5 million seed round. The investment was led by Oregon Angel Fund,… Read More
CreativeLive, the fast-growing online education startup founded by photographer Chase Jarvis and entrepreneur Craig Swanson, today announced something relatively unique: The first-ever free 24/7 live online education broadcast network. At any… Read More
With more and more children using mobile devices, the education space is certainly ripe for innovation. Kirkland-based EdStart is another ed-tech startup hoping to help students learn faster and give… Read More
We wrote earlier this summer about Chip In, Microsoft’s program to help students buy a new PC by creating a crowdfunding page for it and hounding their friends and family… Read More
After announcing a $30 million deal with Apple last month, the Los Angeles Unified School District said that the pilot program of 31,000 iPads would grow to encompass its entire… Read More
As Microsoft continues to try and get Surface tablets in the hands of educators and students, Apple has just landed a contract with the second-largest public school system in the… Read More
Technology is certainly changing and improving how people are educated today, and one Seattle startup is well on its way to providing apps that help us learn with our new… Read More
In an attempt to fix a “national crisis in early childhood education,” the University of Washington is introducing its first-ever online-only degree program. The Early Childhood and Family Studies degree… Read More
The education space is a promising field that has garnered tons of investor attention. The numbers don’t lie: education technology raised $1.1 billion in 2012. But can anyone predict what the… Read More