EdBizWatch

Can Boundless Finally End the Paper Textbook?

Boundless has organized free digital resources aligned to popular textbooks in 21 subjects. 

Can Boundless Finally End the Paper Textbook? Anya Kamenetz, Hechinger Report

Kno Acquired by Intel

Why would Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, acquire an education company?

Kno Acquired by Intel, Ingrid Lunden, Rip Empson, TechCrunch

BenchPrep Offers Free Courses to Underprivileged Students

With “Teach it Forward” co helps out and gets more informed for better instructional design.

BenchPrep Offers Free College Readiness with Teach It Forward, Michael Carney, PandoDaily

Benchprep to Offer Video-based Software Training Courses

40 courses on Excel, Adobe & other software tools, targeting high school & college students.

Benchprep Expands to Video-based Training Courses, Ki Mae Heussner, GigaOM

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

BenchPrep Adds New Publishers, Courses

Chicago startup providing interactive test prep courses, adds Pearson, O’Reilly, Microsoft Press. 

Digital Learning Platform Adds New Publishers, Doubles Courses, Ki Mae Heussner, GigaOM

BenchPrep Raises $6 Million from NEA

Goal: be the platform students use to study any subject by any publisher on any device.

BenchPrep Takes on $6M to Grow Its Learning Marketplace, Alex Wilhelm, TheNextWeb