Today’s biggest ed tech news was Lumen Learning – co-founded by David Wiley and Kim Thanos and focused on getting deeper adoption of OER in higher education – and their new round of funding. And this news goes beyond pure investment, as Follett, the large campus retailer that “serve[s] over half of the students in the United States, and work with 80,000 schools as a leading provider of education technology, services and print and digital content”, led the funding round.
First up a disclosure: Lumen Learning is a client of MindWires (the consulting side of e-Literate, or our capitalistic alter ego), and we have had a consulting relationship with Lumen for almost 18 months. We mostly don’t blog about our consulting work, and I do not plan to describe our advice to them, but we are not neutral observers on this one.
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https://mindwires.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Business-Economics.jpg5050Phil Hillhttps://mindwires.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/mindwireslrg-whitepad.pngPhil Hill2017-04-18 00:00:002020-11-20 13:41:19Some Notes On Lumen Learning’s $3.75 million Funding Round Led By Follett