May 30, 2019

Jane Swift, a former Massachusetts governor and state senator, starts on July 1 as president and executive director of edtech nonprofit LearnLaunch Inc. The nonprofit's board signed off on Swift for the role in a vote last week.

June 06, 2019

EdTech is educational technology. Using technology, teaching and learning are simplified as before. It is easy to observe and more familiar to students. The simplest technology, such as audio-video tools and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), which move to cloud technology. Digital content is governed by the EdTech Market. Techniques such as AR, VR, and IoT are used enormously. This market has a huge future in the near future.

May 27, 2019

EdTech is educational technology. Using technology, teaching and learning are simplified as before. It is easy to observe and more familiar to students. The simplest technology, such as audio-video tools and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), which move to cloud technology. Digital content is governed by the EdTech Market. Techniques such as AR, VR, and IoT are used enormously. This market has a huge future in the near future.

May 27, 2019

The year 2019 is set to become a prosperous year for Chinese tech companies going public in the US. An edtech company that offers online and offline training of English language, Meten, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the US to raise US$100 million. It plans to establish new learning centers, boost technology and marketing activities, and also invest in the country’s private English language training (ELT) companies.

May 20, 2019

Commencement speakers often tell graduates to follow their dreams, but yesterday the orator at Morehouse College’s graduation made that easier in a concrete way when he surprised the crowd by promising to pay off the student loans of all 396 members of the graduating class.

May 23, 2019

Publisher McGraw-Hill announced a new initiative Tuesday in collaboration with Michigan-based edtech startup Alchemie to co-develop augmented reality and 3D-learning tools for mobile devices to teach college-level chemistry.

May 14, 2019

RETHINK RETURNS: Rethink Education, a White Plains, New York-based education technology investment firm, has a new fund in the works. According to SEC filings first reported by PEHub, Rethink is targeting $150 million for what would be its third fund.

May 14, 2019

The stress Rohan Pasari feels running a startup with 25 full-time employees still doesn’t quite compare with how he felt during his final two years of high school. As Pasari approached graduation from a private school in Kolkata, India, he worried about which college would accept him and couldn’t decide a major. “I felt alone,” the 29-year-old says. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do.”

May 14, 2019

Elisa Pupko had a problem when it came to parents scheduling their kids to participate in her Brooklyn-based theater arts program. Most online tools she found allowed parents to only book one event at one time for one price. This proved too restrictive for the birthday parties and multi-day camps Pupko hosted through Treasure Trunk Theatre.

May 08, 2019

Kahoot is best known for its digital quiz tools that can turn the classroom or corporate office into a raucous quiz show. But there is no question about how it plans to grow. Last December, following a Disney investment that valued the company at $376 million, the Oslo-based company made clear its intention to build a pipeline for acquisitions.