Education is one of the last sectors to be remade by technology.

This is changing.

NoRedInk is a web-based learning platform used for teaching grammar, usage, mechanics and style to students in 4th through 12th grade. Teachers can assign a variety of diagnostic and instructional materials to their students through NoRedInk. Students may also choose to work through the hundreds of activities in NoRedInk’s online independently. The platform adapts to each learner’s strengths and weaknesses, and the portal displays color-coded heat maps to help students and teachers track progress. The majority of NoRedInk’s offerings are free to users, however the company does offer access to upgraded features through a paid subscription to NoRedInk Premium.

Rethink‘s mission is to place evidence-based treatment solutions in the hands of every educator, clinician or parent working with a child with special needs.  Rethink combines the power of technology and research to deliver innovative, scalable and evidence-based instructional materials and supports for learners with disabilities. The comprehensive suite of tools ensures that every student develops the academic, behavioral and social/emotional skills they need to succeed in school, at work and in life. Rethink’s platform and data-tracking system guides educators, care-givers, and family members as the learner progresses through the curriculum. Rethink’s curriculum is based on the educational intervention of applied behavior analysis.

Helping hospitals educate, engage and monitor patients in varying stages of care using automated text messaging.

Crehana is a project-based learning community where Spanish-speaking freelancers in creative, design, and digital industries refine real-world skills through short online courses designed by global industry experts. Crehana offers more than 500 courses that teach over 75,000 techniques across different software platforms. Each course requires participants to build a personal project that helps them to expand their professional portfolio of work.

Bridge International Academies is building a chain of ultra low cost private schools that deliver primary education to the world’s poorest, most academically underserved populations. Bridge uses a data-driven Academy-in-a-Box™ model to scale its reach with efficiency. From preliminary market research on real estate acquisition and construction, to the recruitment and training of local staff and communities, to the creation, distribution, and analysis of curriculum and pedagogy, to payment management and site monitoring, Bridge operates a vertically-oriented deployment of its academies and maintains central ownership of the entire process.  Initial markets include Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and India.  Bridge also works with governments such as Liberia to operate a charter model at the country level.

Upswing offers a suite of services, from online tutoring and academic advising to student mentorship, that is designed to reduce attrition and improve student success. Upswing’s AdviseUp solution connects university advisors with students to schedule and complete virtual advising sessions. TutorUp helps students excel academically by connecting them with campus tutors or Upswing’s network of coaches. AskUp brings students and tutors online in the Virtual Learning Center, allowing for asynchronous tutoring. Upswing’s administrator data dashboard provides real-time data and analysis to track student outcomes and program success.

Pathbrite delivers next-generation solutions that help students, schools, and businesses collect, track, and showcase achievement through e-portfolios, and recommend pathways for continuous success. They do this by documenting, analyzing, and mapping individual achievements against individuals’ and institutions’ goals, and those of their peers, through what is known as Knowledge Graph.

Hapara‘s tools facilitate student-driven, project-based learning.  Hapara is an education management platform layered on top of the education tool suites of Google and Microsoft. Hapara’s tools address critical regulatory and performance mandates confronting schools and districts world-wide. Google’s G Suite for Education is used by tens of millions of students and teachers across the globe. Hapara transforms G Suite into a powerful learning and analytics environment, while simultaneously reclaiming teaching time and cutting software costs.

Amira helps children learn to read. Amira listens to developing readers, assesses mastery, and delivers interactive tutoring, using the latest reading science techniques. Amira saves teachers time and generates actionable insights for educators and parents. Independent research conducted in classrooms around the world found that the software matched or exceeded the benefit of giving every student a certified human tutor.

Empowered Education is a 200+ person company built on a metrics-driven remote workforce platform throughout the US and around the globe, Empowered Education is the parent company of Health Coach Institute and Functional Nutrition Alliance — the leading online schools for health coaches and wellness practitioners.

Hone is a synchronous leadership development platform for modern, distributed teams. Managerial training (often focused on soft skills such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving) is still largely conducted face-to-face in a classroom setting. As this delivery mode is increasingly inefficient for the distributed and global corporate workforces common in today’s economy, Hone seeks to provide a more engaging and flexible alternative for modern managers. 

Knowledge 2 Practice deploys advanced learning techniques using digital technology to help clinical leaders design and deliver a personalized curriculum that measurably improves clinical judgment, critical thinking, and patient care. The company is transforming how expertise is shared and learned among clinicians around the world.

Flocabulary is a web-based learning program for all grades and subjects that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement. Teachers in more than 50,000 schools have used Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and formative assessments to develop core literacy skills and supplement instruction across the curriculum.

McGraw-Hill Education is a global leader in the development of digital content and technology-enabled adaptive learning solutions. The company provides outcome-focused learning solutions through curated content and digital learning tools and platforms to the students in the classrooms of approximately 250,000 higher education instructors, 13,000 pre-kindergarten through 12th grade school districts and a wide variety of academic institutions, professionals and companies. The company distributes products in 140 countries across Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, Latin America and the Middle East.  McGraw-Hill is a private company acquired by Apollo Global Management in 2012.