StudyBlue raises $3.6M, Growing Education’s Cloud
StudyBlue gets a series A round of funding at $3.65 million. This is for the development of their internet service, expanding across all colleges in the United States.This tool helps student study more efficiently and effectively — especially those who are “digital natives” or people who are raised alongside the internet, looking for ways to have an accessible classroom material everywhere via mobile internet service. StudyBlue is currently developing an app for the iPhone.
“Students in college today grew up with the Internet and attached to their mobile phones. Studying is no longer a pen and paper affair, it’s digital, it’s mobile and it has to be more efficient. StudyBlue is focused on friction free studying with a valuable free service that offers students access to tools and content across their entire class load,” said Becky Splitt, CEO, StudyBlue. “We help students make the most productive use of their valuable study time, providing them the first complete learning toolset that meets them at their level of technological fluency.”
Over the last two years, StudyBlue has raised a fund total of $6.5 million. Its services has expanded from 25 to 500 campuses, all over the country and counting. The platform is proven to strengthen mastery, retention, increase in learning efficiency and engagement in classroom.
“What is compelling and unique with StudyBlue’s platform is its focus on improving how students learn, with academic integrity,” said John Wiley, former Chancellor of UW Madison, and a member of the StudyBlue Board. “This is an approach that students find comfortable and natural, and that educators can view as complementary to the classroom.”
StudyBlue is the answer to students’ frustration over the lack of effective online destination, making use of technologies, whether information drive or socialization. It’s one of several digitized tools that have emerged specifically for students in recent years, with their benefits increasing with the introduction of smartphones and tablets like the iPad. This is all going to be a huge driving force for the cloud, as the education sector relies on shared data and remote access. Google Apps recently reached a major milestone for their education tools, hitting the 10 million mark.
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