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2U (company)

2U, Inc. is an American educational technology company that contracts with non-profit colleges and universities to offer online degree programs. The company supplies its client institutions with a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform, coursework design, infrastructure support, and capital.

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AltSchool

AltSchool is a San Francisco-based education and technology company founded with one school in 2013, later expanded to additional schools in 2014. As of June, 2019 AltSchool ceased operating schools directly and rebranded as Altitude Learning, a software company. Recently AltSchool has changed its name to Altitude Learning.

Amplify (company)W
Amplify (company)

Amplify is a curriculum and assessment company launched in July 2012. Amplify Curriculum was built on the foundation of Wireless Generation, the educational company News Corp bought in 2010. Amplify products and services provide assessment and analytics for data-driven instruction and next-generation digital curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards.

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Apex Learning

Apex Learning, Inc. is a privately held provider of digital curriculum. Headquartered in Seattle, Apex Learning is accredited by AdvancED.

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Bitsbox

Bitsbox is a startup that teaches children how to code apps. The company sells boxes with suggested apps for users to code on a virtual tablet.

Boundless (company)W
Boundless (company)

Boundless was an American company, founded in 2011, which created free and low-cost textbooks and distributed them online. In April 2015, it was acquired by Valore. The combined company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

BrainlyW
Brainly

Brainly is a Polish education technology company based in Kraków, Poland, with headquarters in New York City. It provides a peer-to-peer learning platform for students, parents, and teachers to ask and answer homework questions. The platform has elements of gamification in the form of motivational points and ranks. It encourages users to engage in the online community by answering other users’ questions. As of November 2020, Brainly reported having 350 million monthly users making it the world's most popular education app.

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Coursera

Coursera Inc. is an American massive open online course provider founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects. According to CNBC "more than 150 universities offered upwards of 4,000 courses through Coursera, which features over two dozen degree programs at prices that are lower than many in-person school offerings."

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Coursmos

Coursmos is an online micro-learning platform. It offers approximately 50,000 lessons within approximately 11,000 courses with courses broken down into smaller lessons, typically no longer than three minutes each. Launched in 2013, it has been attributed as the world's first platform that supports micro learning.

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Edmodo

Edmodo is an educational technology company offering a communication, collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents. Edmodo is very teacher-centric in their design and philosophy: students and parents can only join Edmodo if invited to do so by a teacher. Teachers and students spend large amounts of time on the platform, both in and out of the classroom. Edmodo is free to use, but it also offers premium services.

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EdSurge

EdSurge is an education journalism initiative provided by the International Society for Technology in Education. EdSurge publishes newsletters and operates databases used by venture capitalists, teachers, school administrators and others. In May 2018, EdSurge was identified by the Brookings Institution as one of the world's 16 leading "innovation spotters" in education. These organizations "are searching the globe to find, highlight, and sometimes support education innovations," Brookings wrote.

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The Fullbridge Program

The Fullbridge Program is a learning curriculum held by educational technology company Fullbridge, Inc. which teaches basic business techniques, and helps individuals bridge the knowledge and skills gap.

Inkling (company)W
Inkling (company)

Inkling is an American company based in San Francisco, California. Inkling is a mobile learning enablement platform built for distributed workforces. It produces a set of tools that businesses use to build, manage, and distribute digital content, which includes its cloud-based authoring environment, called Inkling Habitat. Brands such as Taco Bell, McDonald's, and Verizon entrust Inkling to help them onboard employees, ensure performance enablement and successfully execute corporate initiatives while providing increased levels of visibility into critical operating metrics.

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Kadenze

kadenze.com, operated by Kadenze, Inc. ("Kadenze"), is a for-profit massive open online course (MOOC) provider that offers courses geared toward art, music, and creative technology, fields which are falling behind other fields such as computer science in terms of number of courses offered in the MOOC space. It was launched on June 16, 2015 with 18 academic partners including: Stanford University, Princeton University, UCLA, California Institute of the Arts, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art, Goldsmiths College, MassArt, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Paris College of Art, National University of Singapore, Cornish College of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Rhode Island School of Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Arizona State University, Columbus College of Art and Design, and School of Visual Arts.

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Knewton

Knewton is an adaptive learning company that has developed a platform to personalize educational content as well as has developed courseware for higher education concentrated in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The company was founded in 2008 by Jose Ferreira, a former executive at Kaplan, Inc. The Knewton platform allows schools, publishers, and developers to provide adaptive learning for any student. In 2011, Knewton announced a partnership with Pearson Education to enhance the company's digital content, including the MyLab and Mastering series. Additional partners announced include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Macmillan Education, Triumph Learning, and over a dozen others.

KnoW
Kno

Kno, Inc. was a software company that worked with publishers to offer digital textbooks and other educational materials. In November 2013, after raising nearly $100 million in venture capital, the company was acquired by Intel. The website was stopped and the service renamed to Intel Education Study later on.

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Loqu8

Loqu8 is a software company that helps users access and learn information, such as languages and real-time facts. Its products are based on an augmented learning model that was originally developed using cognitive science and information processing research at Caltech and Stanford University. Users interact with the augmented environment by touching the screen or pointing to content with a mouse. A pop-up window immediately displays contextually-relevant information with links to supporting resources. Behind the scenes, the text surrounding the mouse pointer is evaluated and supplemental information is presented. Powered by Loqu8's iNtution engine, the software promises to help users learn information quickly; a pop-up window is displayed in a fraction of a second.

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Otus (education)

Otus is an educational technology company providing a learning management system, data warehouse and many classroom management tools for K-12 students, teachers, parents, and administrators. Otus was nominated as a finalist of two 2016 Codie awards in the "Best Classroom Management System" and "Best K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution" categories, one 2018 Codie award for "Best Student Assessment Solution", and two 2019 Codie awards for "Best Data Solution" and "Best Administrative Solution". Otus was a finalist in EdTech Digest's 2016 "District Data Solution" and "Learning Management System" categories. Otus co-founder Chris Hull was also recently announced as one of the National School Boards Association's "20 to Watch Educators for 2016".

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Pear Deck

Pear Deck is an educational technology company offering a web-based application to K–12 schools and teachers. Pear Deck was founded in 2014 in Iowa City, Iowa. In December 2014, Pear Deck raised $500,000 in seed funding. That same year, the company was awarded the “New Startup of the Year” award at the Silicon Prairie Awards.

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Penveu

penveu is a pen-like device developed by American company Interphase Corporation for use with digital audiovisual presentations.

PreplyW
Preply

Preply is an online educational platform that pairs students with private tutors remotely via online chat. It features a ranking algorithm that uses machine learning for classification and recommendation of tutors.

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PrepMe

PrepMe is a for-profit American company that offers online courses and tutoring for standardized achievement tests, in particular those offered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), such as the PSAT and SAT; and the ACT offered by ACT, Inc. PrepMe also developed its Coursification platform to open its adaptive online learning platform to publishers. Over 100,000 students have used the company's programs.

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Securly

Securly, Inc. is a venture-backed student safety and device management software provider headquartered in Silicon Valley. Securly was founded in January 2013 by Vinay Mahadik, Bharath Madhusudan, and Nikita Chikate. It was incorporated in California on July 19, 2013. In March 2019, Securly expanded to cover classroom and device management.

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Skillshare

Skillshare is an American online learning community for people who want to learn from educational videos. The courses, which are not accredited, are available through subscription.

SkillsoftW
Skillsoft

Skillsoft is an American educational technology company that produces learning management system software and content.

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Socratic (Google)

Socratic is an education tech company that offers a mobile app for students. The app uses AI technology to help students with their homework by providing educational resources like videos, definitions, Q&A, and more.

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Spiral Universe

Spiral Universe provides a software platform for student information, learning management, and distance learning applications. The company is based in White Plains, New York. The flagship product is called Spiral, a rich Internet application available under the software as a service model. Features include course management, gradebook, attendance tracking, student records, reporting, report cards and transcripts, student portal, parents portal, and scheduling.

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StoryBots

StoryBots is an American children's educational media franchise best known for the Netflix series Ask the StoryBots. The StoryBots library includes educational TV series, books, videos, music, games and classroom activities designed to make foundational learning fun and encourage intellectual curiosity in children ages 3-to-8. Subjects cover a wide range of themes and feature a cast of characters called the StoryBots, who are tiny, colorful robotic creatures who have eyes on top of their head, eyebrows, rectangular bodies, have expressional semi-circles for heads that move with every syllable, long lines for limbs, circles for feet and have pincer-like appendages for hands that are either depicted as magnet shaped, half a square with a hole going out to make two fingers, simple lines, crab pincers or 9 shaped that live within computers, tablets and phones and help humans answer questions.

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Studyhall

Studyhall is an online education startup based in Washington, DC, United States, and founded by Cornell and Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law graduate Ross Blankenship in 2012. The company is a peer-to-peer learning platform that seeks to change higher education by providing a virtual space in which students can collaborate.

TechChangeW
TechChange

TechChange is a US social enterprise which provides courses on the use of technology in addressing social and global challenges. Their e-learning platform "has been used by more than 600 students from more than 70 countries." It is a registered benefit corporation based in Washington, DC and was founded in the summer of 2010. The Economist dubbed TechChange as ”the Geeks for Good”.

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Tradepal

Tradepal is an education technology company based in San Francisco, California. The Company designs online tutoring software for collaborative learning to increase student success and retention in schools and colleges.

UdacityW
Udacity

Udacity, Inc. is an American for-profit educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses.

UdemyW
Udemy

Udemy, Inc. is an American massive open online course (MOOC) provider aimed at professional adults and students. It was founded in May 2010 by Eren Bali, Gagan Biyani, and Oktay Caglar.

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Vernier Software & Technology

Vernier Software & Technology is an educational software and equipment company based in Beaverton, Oregon that produces sensors and graphing software for use in science education. Vernier is one of the first companies to popularize the use of computers and sensor technology, known as "probeware" or "Microcomputer Based Labs" (MBL), during laboratory experiments.