A new study from disruptive economics guru Clayton Christensen’s think tank gives more clarity into how online learning could shape the future of education. Read more »
Udacity and Georgia Tech are teaming up with AT&T to offer an entirely online computer science masters degree that will cost students less than $7,000. Read more »
Chegg, a company best known as a textbook rental site, is partnering with Coursera to distribute its content to students enrolled in massive open online courses. Read more at paidContent »
A new analytics engine from education technology company Desire2Learn uses big data to predict and improve student performance in higher education. Read more »
Through its mobile app development Technovation Challenge, nonprofit Iridescent Learning has reached thousands of girls across the country. Now it wants to reach around the world. Read more »
Professors at San Jose State University argue that massive open online courses (MOOCs) could seriously compromise the quality of education at public universities. Read more »
Online learning startup Coursera is partnering with several schools of education, as well as other institutions and museums, to bring professional development courses to K-12 teachers online. Read more »
TareasPlus, a Spanish-language educational site for students in Latin America, is launching a new marketplace of video content and eyeing more global expansion. Read more »
Minerva Project, a San Francisco-based startup aiming to bring a Harvard-level education to the web, plans to recognize innovative educators with a $500,000 prize. Read more »
Elite liberal arts college Amherst voted against partnering with massive open online course (MOOC) non-profit edX this week, bringing attention to institutions’ concerns about how MOOCs could impact higher education. Read more »
As Kaplan’s new TechStars-powered ed tech accelerator recruits its first class, Don Burton, the program’s new managing director, talks about the developing industry and opportunities ahead. Read more »
Echo360, a education technology company supported by the Revolution Growth Fund, has acquired social learning startup ThinkBinder. Read more »
Online learning site Udemy is launching a corporate training option that enables companies to create private online learning sites for their employees. Read more »
The Gates Foundation and Facebook pick the winners of their HackEd 2.0 hackathon. Read more »
Despite its initial efforts at building its own open-source online learning platform, Stanford said it will fold that platform into the edX platform launched by Harvard and MIT. Read more »
San Francisco-based online learning startup Udemy has launched a new mobile app to help students enroll in and take courses from their phones. Read more »
Language learning giant Rosetta Stone has acquired Seattle-based Livemocha to shift its products to the cloud. Read more »
Kuato Studios’ new mobile strategy game Hakitzu aims to teach kids the basics of JavaScript. Read more »
In the past year, startups bringing online education to mass audiences have gained a lot of attention. But several startups are finding success with an opposite approach — instructing online students one at a time. Read more »
Publishing giant Wiley has launched Digital Classroom, an online marketplace of software training videos and digital books. Read more at paidContent »
Professors pioneering the new massive open online courses have mostly positive things to say about the “MOOCs” but most don’t believe their schools should award credit, says a survey from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read more »
Moving closer toward its vision of being an open-sourced learning platform, edX on Thursday released its XBlock SDK, the underlying architecture supporting edX course content. Read more »
A new bill proposed by a state senator in California would create a new system that would allow public universities across the state to accept college credit for online courses. Read more »
CreativeLIVE, a Seattle-based provider of online skill-focused classes, has raised a small amount of funding from big name Hollywood agencies Creative Artists Agency and William Morris Endeavor, as well as Google Ventures and the Crunchfund. Read more »
At the SXSWedu ed tech conference this week, I got an earful on plenty of new technologies aiming to remake education. But here are a few themes I still hope to hear more about. Read more »
Even if providers of massive open online courses don’t intend to provide degrees or degree equivalents, that doesn’t mean degrees fully powered by informal sources aren’t on the horizon. Read more »
The program formerly known as the Boston Startup School, which was co-founded by the managing director of TechStars Boston, has changed its name to the Startup Institute and is expanding to New York. Read more »
SXSWedu, an annual conference on all things ed tech, kicks off Monday. From the growing role of data to debates on online education to DIY approaches to education, here’s a look at what’s ahead. Read more »
In a short film released by non-profit Code.org, sports and pop stars join Silicon Valley luminaries in encouraging more people to learn to code. Read more »
Thinkful, an online education startup co-founded by a Thiel Fellow, has raised $1 million from a group of investors including Peter Thiel’s FF Angel, RRE Ventures and Quotidian Ventures. Read more »
Online learning startup Coursera said that it has added 29 new school partners, about half of which are international. With the new partners, Coursera will now offer courses in French, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian. Read more »
edX, the online course provider launched by Harvard and MIT, has added six new schools to its X University Consortium, including its first international partners. Read more »
Learn-to-code startup Codecademy is building on its recently-launched track of API classes with lessons created in partnership with Twitter Gilt Groupe, Box, 23andMe, Dwolla and others. Read more »
Over the weekend, a professor on Coursera announced that he would no longer be teaching a course that was only in its fifth of ten weeks, marking the second time in a month that a Coursera class has hit a stumbling block. Read more »
Washington, D.C.-based Quad Learning has raised $11 million to provide an online platform and program intended to help community college students more successfully transfer to four-year colleges to complete a bachelor’s degree. Read more »
Over the weekend, online education startup Coursera suspended a class on how to run an online class after complaints from students. Read more »
For the past few years, Palo Alto-based ImagineK12 has run a startup accelerator exclusively for education technology entrepreneurs. But Socratic Labs and LearnLaunchX are bringing similar models east. Read more »
A report out Wednesday from M&A database CB Insights gives a breakdown of the 2,277 tech acquisitions it tracked last year, but the company did a deeper dive into education to give a snapshot of activity. Read more »
A group of educators, including online course startup Udacity, today released a “Bill of Rights” meant to protect the interests of students in online education. Read more »
According to venture capital database, CB Insights, education technology companies raised a total of $1.1 billion in 2012, with about one-third of the funding going to about ten companies. Read more »
