Clay Christensen Center’s 2013 EdTech Competitive Landscape Interactive Map
Education Management- Blackboard, Knewton (track student performance, personalized online learning, retention tracker)
HR Management- Hire Vue (video interviewing), Mystery Applicant (candidate experience tracking), Ascendify.com (talent communities, nurturing for future employees), SilkRoad, JobScore
Referral/Reference Competitors- Herd Wisdom (referral rewards, gamification), CareerCloud
, JobAware
Data Visualization Platforms: Vizify, Visual.ly, Tableau
Mass Open Online Course-ware (MOOCs): Hoote Suite University, iTunes University, creativeLIVE, Khan academy, edX, Lynda.com, Code Academy, Code.org, Treehouse (funded by reid hoffman new series B $7mil), Startup Institute (high school ramp-up classes teach code), Canvas, Schoology, Coursera, Minerva Project (ivy league education, online, international community pods), udacity, udemy,
International MOOCs:
- Open2Study (Australia): Open2Study has partnerships with eight Australian universities and offers courses on such as topics nutrition, anthropology, and business.
- Veduca (Brazil): Veduca was the first MOOC provider in Latin America, and it curates publicly available educational videos from universities like the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard and Columbia Universities, adding subtitles in Portuguese. The company also offered the first Latin America-based MOOC from the University of São Paulo.
- FutureLearn (Britain): FutureLearn has partnerships with 22 universities in Britain, as well as one in Australia and one in Ireland. Partners in Britain include the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, East Anglia, Exeter, Leeds, Southampton, and Warwick, as well as Cardiff and Lancaster Universities, Queen’s University Belfast, and King’s College London.
- iversity (Germany): iversity offers 10 courses in a variety of topics, including art studies, economics, and chemistry. It recently ran a contest for professors and others interested in creating and offering massive open online courses, promising a prize of 25,000 euros to each of 10 winners.
Online Profile/ Personal Branding: – LinkedIn, WordPress, About.me, Flavored.me, GetHired, Grouptalent(freelance until you find the perfect job), HireArt (online challenge based interviews), BraveNewTalent (professional community of experts and mentors), ResumUp (career discovery and management), SquareSpace
Zui – curated digital content for kids, comes with kid edu tech like LeapFrog LeapPad
News Aggregators: – Taptu, feedly, futurful, pulse (acquired by LinkedIn), netvibes (cross platform dashboard and reader), protopage (RSS reader and start page), (google RSS and igoogle retiring)
Ranking/Scoring Technology: Bright.com (fit for a job), CodeEval (asses coding skills- acquired by Hire Vue), Klout (social activity tanking), Twitalyzer, TwitterGrader, Tweetlevel, Tweetreach, TeraMetric Optimizer for Twitter, Booshaka (facebook only), SocialGrapple, Postrank (RSS feed analyzer), PeerIndex, Proliphiq, Kred.ly (sentiment), Peek Analytics
Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)- JobVite, Jobsync
Career Matching– Bright.com, burning glass, onewire.com, roundpeg, jobfox, EmployInsight, KeenHire
Brain Games lumosity, knack, brain hq, connectcube
Sourcing/Job Database Aggregators: beyond.com, the ladders, bright.com, simplyhired, indeed, OnGig (partnered with Bright.com- set out to redesign job description), iCIMS
Career Management- CareerBliss
Career Advice: diplomatojob.com, one day one job, careerealism, bright.com
Social Sharing Platforms–twitter, linkedin, facebook, instagram, pinterest, reddit, tumblr, flixter, goodreads, feedly, foursquare, yelp (redefine video job description?)
Niche Recruiting Companies/Sites– Entelo (recruiters can search for the best software engineers and designers), GitHub, Dice (career hub for tech)
Hirecentrix– check this out to learn more about HR
TestTracks- test drive students- rent a student for 10 hour project; test drive an industry.
Contingent/ Temp Work- taskrabbit, TestTracks
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