Educational

ABCya Corporate Office

Alan Tortolani founded ABCya in 2004. A school teacher himself, Tortolani began offering specialized classes and online tutoring tools in the form of games for his own students.

When other students and parents wanted access, Tortolani created ABCya.

The games on the website are organized into grade levels from pre-kindergarten to Sixth grade, as well as into subject categories such as letters, numbers, and holidays.

In 2014, the company won a Parent’s Choice award for educational websites.

In 2018, the company was acquired by IXL Learning.

ABCya programs try to take larger problems and blocks of text and break them down into smaller chunks that are easier for students to digest and understand.

ABCya maintains a corporate office in Providence, Rhode Island.

VitalSource Technologies Corporate Office

VitalSource was founded in 1994 in San Antonio, Texas by Dr. Robert Todd Watkins, Jr.

The company’s first commercial implementations kicked off in 2000 when the small group of dental schools piloted the use of an early course materials solution, DVDs that held full digital versions of each student’s entire four years of textbooks, workbooks, lectures slides, manuals, and handbooks. The digital curriculum was updated each semester and stayed with students after graduation as a professional resource.

In July 2006, the company was acquired by Ingram Content Group. VitalSource now acts as a subsidiary of Ingram Industries.

In June 2021, Ingram Industries sold VitalSource to Francisco Partners, a private equity group, for an undisclosed amount.

In 2019, the company partnered with Barne’s & Noble Education to expand access to and implement BNED’s “FirstDay” Inclusive Access program, which gives students access to course materials by or before the first day of class each term.

In August 2022, VitalSource began carrying Labster’s complete portfolio of science lab simulations.

VitalSource maintains a corporate office in Raleigh, North Carolina.

ClassDojo Corporate Office

Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don wanted to improve education. The pair met and listened to hundreds of teachers to understand their views on how to do this.

The pair released the first version of ClassDojo in July 2011 to help teachers to build a positive classroom culture through a feedback app. In its first week of release, 80 teachers used ClassDojo.

The company connects teachers, schools, and families through communication methods. It also enables teachers to note feedback on students’ skills and creates a portfolio for students, so that families can be aware of school activities outside of meeting with teachers.

This app is used by at least 95 percent of pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade teachers and students,s according to Dojo.

In 2011, ClassDojo received the Today Show’s Education Innovation Award.

Some people, however, have said that Dojo is indoctrinating students into accepting surveillance as a normal way of life.

ClassDojo maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

Khan Academy Corporate Office

Starting in 2004, Salman Khan began tutoring one of his cousins in mathematics on the Internet using a service called Yahoo Doodle Images. After a while, Khan’s other cousins began to use his tutoring service. Due to the high demand, Khan decided to make his videos watchable on the Internet, so he published his content on YouTube.

Khan decided to incorporate Khan Academy in 2008 and to quit his job in 2009, to focus full-time on creating educational tutorials (then released under the name Khan Academy.

Khan is an American non-profit organization that uses a set of online tools to help educate students.

The company uses short videos for lessons as well as supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators.

Khan Academy currently has more than 8,000 instructional videos

All resources are free to users of the website and application.

As of 2018, over 70 million people use Khan Academy, out of which 2.3 million students use it to prepare for SAT testing.

As of February 2022, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has more than 7.11 million subscribers and Khan Academy videos have been viewed more than 1.94 billion times.

The company currently has 135 million registered users in 190 countries.

In April 2022, Khan Academy partnered with Arizona State University to launch a new online global high school.

Khan Academy maintains a corporate office in Mountain View, California.

Chegg Corporate Office

In October 2000, Iowa State University students Josh Carlson, Mike Seager, and Mark Fiddleke founded Chegg’s forerunner, Cheggpost, a message board for Iowa State students.

The name Chegg is a combination of the words chicken and egg and references the founders’ catch-22 feelings of being unable to obtain a job without experience while being unable to acquire experience without a job.

In December 2007, the company rebranded itself as Chegg and began to focus on renting textbooks to students from any and all colleges, not just Iowa State.

Chegg provides digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services.

As of March 2020, the company reported having 2.9 million subscribers to Chegg Services.

During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, the controversy around Chegg and companies offering similar services escalated, as many students had to learn from home with uncensored internet access. Georgia Tech alerted students in a physics class that certain students in the class had cheated on their online final exam by using answers posted on Chegg.

Also, certain students in a chemistry class at Boston University were found to have similarly cheated on an online exam, and several students from two chemistry classes at the University of British Columbia were accused of using Chegg for cheating on exams, including using two incorrect answers that had been posted on the website.

In April 2022, Minnesota-native and college basketball superstar Paige Bueckers partnered with Chegg to address student hunger.

Chegg maintains a corporate office in Santa Clara, California.