Mount Mercy University

edsurge | March 20, 2020

Emergency online teaching. Remote delivery of instruction. Or just plain online learning. Call it what you will, many of the nation’s students are doing it in one form or another now that schools are closed coast to coast over the fast-spreading coronavirus. There’s just one problem: millions of students in the country don’t have a reliable way to get online.“There's a big giant access issue, both in terms of what happens when there’s no internet and then also w...

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 $...

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

Crystal Delta | May 31, 2021

Crystal Delta recently released Loree for Blackboard to assist educators in improving the learning experience through more straightforward course design and editing. Loree (the course design tool) is now compatible with Blackboard. It is the only tool of its sort available for Blackboard learning management systems (LMS) and is widely used by Canvas and Brightspace customers worldwide."Our mission at Crystal Delta is to improve learning. The introduction of Loree for Blackboard improves the...

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

New Oriental Education and Technology Group Inc. | March 28, 2022

New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. ("New Oriental" or the "Company") (NYSE: EDU and SEHK: 9901), a provider of private educational services in China, today announced that it plans to change the ratio of its American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") to its common shares (the "ADS Ratio"), par value US$0.001 per share, from the current ADS Ratio of one (1) ADS to one (1) common share to a new ADS Ratio of one (1) ADS to ten (10) common shares. A po...