Textbook provider Boundless launched an iOS application and a premium offering today, continuing its efforts to making educational content more accessible for college students.
Online learning platform Udemy announced today that it now supports nine foreign languages and hit the milestone of one million students.
Farbood Nivi sold assets of his test prep startup Grockit to Kaplan. Now he’s moving ahead with a bold, new idea. How did he do it?
After three years of development and backing from well-known VCs, Tutor Matching Service makes its marketplace available to students, tutors, and universities around the country.
Guest Post In the private sector, startups are coming up with ideas to keep students from falling into crippling debt. Will they work?
Los Angeles Unified School District hopes that all 640,000 of its students will be using iPads by late 2014.
One of the world’s most popular sites just turned on mobile editing. Good timing, because Wikipedia just recently hit three billion monthly pages views on smartphones and tablets — 15 percent of all traffic to the global information warehouse.
Kathryn and David Clarke got the idea for a math practice game when their daughters were in middle school. Decades later, they have released the game on the App Store.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just voted to move ahead with a proposal to bring faster Internet to almost every school in the country.
With it’s new XO tablet, One Laptop per Child is taking aim at a very different demographic.
Education is a notoriously slow adopter of technology, but Google Apps is growing quickly, if not virally, doubling over the last two years.
Editor’s Pick “Something very interesting is happening here,” Google’s top Canadian employee, Steve Woods, told me. “This area has a very high proportion of startups to population. Google loves startups … and we love to hire entrepreneurial people.”
Millions of Malaysian kids will be writing stories, collecting data, creating presentations, and organizing the future of their education in the cloud — Google’s cloud.
Editor’s Pick Early in her career former Yahoo and Google exec Jennifer Dulski was mentored by a woman who changed her life. Today was her first day of work as the new CEO of Change.org, where she’s planning to help 25 million users change the world.
Forget Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Google just announced perhaps the best sale of the entire Christmas season, at least as far as electronics and computers are concerned.
Coursera’s slogan is “Higher education that overcomes the boundaries of geography, time, and money.” Except, of course, for the state boundaries of Minnesota.
Dave McClure is one of the most prominent angel investors in Silicon Valley — and possibly the world. His accelerator, 500 Startups, will fund its 500th company sometime this year. And no, in answer to “all the stupid questions,” 500 Startups will not shut its doors after reaching that number.
He may also take the prize for most F-bombs per sentence of any investor.
