September 30, 2020
Techcrunch: It’s been a big year for online learning companies — and it sounds like Thinkific is no exception. The Vancouver-based startup is announcing that it has raised $22 million in new funding. Thinkific is different from businesses such as MasterClass (which...
September 30, 2020
From an NSF-funded, cross-university campaign to oil the gears of faculty profiteering: In order to gain broad support for the recognition of [Innovation & Entrepreneurship] within [Promotion and Tenure] guidelines and processes, it is critical that I&E...
September 29, 2020
From the Open Library of Humanities blog: The Open Library of Humanities today celebrates its 5th anniversary since we launched our platform on 28th September 2015 with only 7 journals and 99 supporting institutions. Five years on, our sustainable business model has...
September 29, 2020
“Innovators,” the Inside Higher Ed headline has it, “see Zoom University 2.0.” By “innovation,” though, Inside Higher Ed seems to mean “venture-backed profit-seeking.” Here’s the latest entrant in the...
September 25, 2020
Techcrunch on a new VC-backed startup, ClassEDU, and its first product, Class for Zoom: Today, Class for Zoom announced that it has raised a $16 million seed round, pre-launch, co-led by Deborah Quazzo of GSV Ventures and Santi Subotovsky of Emergence Capital and a...