EdBizWatch

Who Were the Top Ed Tech Acquirers in 2012?

There were 48 ed tech deals in 2012, down slightly from 51 in 2011.

Who Were the Top Ed Tech Acquirers in 2012?, Ki Mae Heussner, GigaOM

Publishers Eye Ed-tech Startups

Transaction-leading market trends: Common Core, MOOCs, Adaptive Instruction, Big Data.

Publishers Eye Ed-tech Startups, Robin Warner, peHUB

Chicago is an EdTech Hotspot

Chicago's 'profitable-but-boring' ed companies have fetched 5x revenue in recent transactions. 

Chicago is an EdTech Hotspot, Tom Vander Ark, Education Week

How Profits Come from "Free" Courses

Here are 8+ possible monitization strategies for MOOC and LMS providers.

Coursera Will Profit From Free Courses, Competition Heats Up, Giftus Education Group

Cold Water Bath for Proponents of Big Data in Academe

Survey: few campus IT leaders think their institutions are investing smartly in “Big Data."

Business as Usual, Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed

Everybody Wants to MOOC the World

Instructure CEO Josh Coates, “We don’t have to make up some weird business model.”

Everybody Wants to MOOC the World, Michael Feldstein, e-Literate

Blackboard, Instructure Challenge Udacity, Coursera

Blackboard’s CourseSites, Instructure's Canvas Network respond to the MOOC phenomenon. 

Course-Mgt Companies Challenge MOOC Providers, Alisha Azevedo, The Chronicle

Michael Chasen Steps Down from CEO of Blackboard

Jay Bhatt, who is not from the education industry, will transition to CEO by year-end.

Michael Chasen Steps Down, Ray Henderson, Blackboard

Blackboard Makes A Play for Online Course Development

The field courting universities to build online programs is crowded. (Pearson, 2tor, Deltak)

Blackboard's New Bag, Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Education

LMS? SIS? SIF? LTI? Alphabet Soup of Blended Learning

What do teachers and students really need from systems supporting blended and e-learning?

The Alphabet Soup of Blended Learning, Chris Dawson, ZDNet

What is Meant by 'Learning Analytics?'

Can big data transform our education institutions?

Learning Analytics: the Future is Now, Deb Everhart, edtech digest

Moodle's Leading Support Companies Bought by Blackboard

Blackboard purchases Moodle open source supporters, Moodlerooms and NetSpot.

Blackboard Buys 2 Leading Moodle Supporters, Jeffery R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Boom Time for Education Startups

Investments in ed tech tripled to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002.

Investors See Ed Tech Companies' 'Internet Moment,' Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle

Flurry of M&A Activity in K-12 Marketplace in 2011

The education industry accounted for $10 Billion in mergers and acqusitions in 2011.

Mergers On the Rise in K-12 Marketplace, Jason Tomassini, Education Week

Blackboard Bought for $1.64 Billion by Providence Equity

Blackboard’s products are widely-used, over 5,000 institutions use the company’s software.

Educated Buy? Providence Equity Partners to Acquire Blackboard -Rip Empson, TechCrunch