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Study International | March 17, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, Coursera has made its full course catalogue available for free online to every university that has had to close down. Universities need only sign up for Coursera for Campus to access 3,800 courses across 400 specialisations, straight from the online learning portal’s partner institutions. Students stand to earn up to 5,000 licences from these courses. These institutions will have access until July 31 2020, while students will have until September 30...

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Outschool | July 26, 2022

Promoted, which is the only company to unify search, feed, ads, and promotions for top marketplaces, announced today that Outschool has selected Promoted to optimize the performance and profitability of its education marketplace. Outschool wanted to better match its classes with learners to increase search conversion rates, total GMV (gross merchandise value), and profitability. Outschool chose Promoted after weighing the costs and risks of building an order-of-magnitude greater i...

edsurge | March 17, 2020

Hotmart, a Belo Horizonte, Brazil-based platform to create and sell online courses, plans to buy Teachable, a similar company based in New York. The deal should close in the second quarter. Hotmart made the purchase to grow its presence in the U.S., according to an online post from Hotmart CEO João Pedro. Hotmart has 670 employees, mostly in Latin America and Europe, and will have about 800 should the deal close. Founded in 2011, Hotmart has grown to 60,000-plus creators selling 150,000-p...

edsurge | March 31, 2020

Yuanfudao, a Beijing-based K-12 online courses and homework platform, has raised $1 billion in a new financing round, led by Tencent Holdings and Hillhouse Capital Group. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital also participated in the round. The company’s products include online tutoring, learning activities and exercises and a question bank. Subjects include math, English and programming, according to a translated version of Yuanfudao's website. The round brings Yuanfudao’s valuation to $...