Western Governors University

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 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...

cnbc | April 24, 2020

Education technology company Coursera is pulling down its paywall for unemployed workers to give people who have lost their jobs around the world free access to education, as well as the ability to earn credentials. The Coursera Workforce Recovery Initiative is teaming up with state governments in the U.S. and the leadership of countries around the world to offer 3,800 courses from top universities and corporations, including Amazon and Google....

Istation | June 24, 2020

EdTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies and solutions in the global educational technology market, today announced that Istation, a Dallas-based education technology company, has been selected as the winner of the "Online Learning Innovation Award" in the second annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program. As the COVID-19 global health pandemic accelerated the transition to distance learning, Istation offered new online lea...