Together with our growing community of customers, we are making the most of the world’s learning data to help a million more students per year by 2025 learn well and finish strong.

Our Goal

In accomplishing our mission, we narrow the gap in the number of graduates our country needs in order to compete and to improve the prospects of striving students in higher education. The United States must produce roughly one million more graduates a year by 2025 to ensure the country has the skilled workers and entrepreneurial leaders it needs–not to mention more deeply engaged and informed citizens.1 Of the 30 million students in higher education today, about half will graduate, with huge disparities based on the income levels of incoming students. Today, a child born poor in the United States is more likely to remain poor than at any time in our nation’s history. For the first time, we are seeing younger generations that will be less educated than their elders. Many other nations outperform us in economic mobility and education attainment.2 In addition, there are 37 million adults with some college and no credential, many eager to finish what they started.3 As daunting as the challenge of one million more graduates sounds, we can reach the goal together by helping our community colleges and universities improve outcomes for current students, and find creative new pathways for returning students. Indeed, analysts argue that reaching this goal would increase today’s annual output of associate and bachelor’s degree-holders by about 3.5 percent4 a year for the next decade. That’s achievable.

Our Core Beliefs

    We believe both insight and action are vital to achieve this goal; however, action informed by insights can be transformational.

Insight analytics include a family of data science strategies that combine hindsight (e.g., data mining) and foresight (e.g., predictive modeling) to guide initiatives in teaching, learning, student support, and institutional management. The data we pull from various systems at a college or university tell stories of the diverse student journeys through institutions. One student’s story is interesting, but looking at these journeys in an ongoing systematic way involving thousands of students and millions of student records is transformative. Using our cloud-based architecture, we provide a strategic, sustainable, and sophisticated infrastructure to help partner institutions learn when the moment is right to intervene, and when it’s not. They can now validate what interventions are the most appropriate and for whom. They can also analyze the impact of strategic policy change. Standing on this foundation, we can employ action analytics that use insight to fuel the right interventions at the right time with the right student along each individual’s learning journey. Put simply, our work with partner institutions has taught us that action fueled by insight is essential to helping students succeed.

    We believe by bringing actionable information and tools to the front lines, we can radically improve and expand learning pathways for millions of students.

Most data initiatives in higher education are responses to legislation, accreditation, licensure, and reporting. It’s been about ensuring compliance more than completion. While compliance is necessary, data can have the greatest impact when institutions deploy it on the front lines and empower faculty and students to improve student outcomes. Intuitively presented data in the hands of faculty, advisors and students fuel effective personal communications and student achievement; and in the hands of students, help them take greater responsibility for their own success.

    We believe we can only realize this vision by Learning Together™ across institutions.

We know we don’t have all of the answers. There’s a lot of work to be done as data initiatives get underway. What we can do is help institutions interested in the big questions start to get the answers their data can provide by strategically employing insight and action analytics. Then we can share our successes across institutions to find the best pathways and clear the big barriers. But it only works when we learn together. In fact, the name Civitas Learning means learning as a community. For those joining us on this journey, we are creating a community of institutions learning together with a shared commitment to student success through insight and action analytics. Together, we’re confident we can help a million more students succeed.

We envision a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life by accessing the world’s best learning experience.

Learn something new

Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from world-class universities and companies, so you can learn something new anytime, anywhere. Hundreds of free courses give you access to on-demand video lectures, homework exercises, and community discussion forums. Paid courses provide additional quizzes and projects as well as a shareable Course Certificate upon completion.

Master a skill

If you want to master a specific career skill, consider enrolling in a Specialization. You’ll complete a series of rigorous courses at your own pace, tackle hands-on projects based on real business challenges, and earn a Specialization Certificate to share with your professional network and potential employers.

Get job-ready for an in-demand career

Whether you’re looking to start a new career or change your current one, Professional Certificates on Coursera help you become job-ready. Learn at your own pace from top companies and universities, apply your new skills to hands-on projects that showcase your expertise to potential employers, unlock access to career support resources, and earn a career credential to kickstart your new career.

Master’s degree learning within reach

With MasterTrack™ Certificates, portions of Master’s programs have been split into online modules, so you can earn a high quality university-issued career credential at a breakthrough price in a flexible, interactive format. Benefit from a deeply engaging learning experience with real-world projects and live, expert instruction. If you are accepted to the full Master’s program, your MasterTrack™ coursework counts towards your degree.

Top degrees that fit your life

Transform your career with a degree online from a world-class university on Coursera. Our modular degree learning experience gives you the ability to study on your own schedule and earn credit as you complete your course assignments. For a breakthrough price, you’ll learn from top university instructors and graduate with an industry-relevant university credential.

Our Story

Coursera was founded in 2012 by two Stanford computer science professors with a vision to provide anyone, anywhere with access to the world’s best education. Professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng put their courses online for anyone to take— and taught more learners in a few months than they could over an entire lifetime in the classroom. Today, Coursera has expanded to reach more than 40 million people and 1,900 businesses around the world. On Coursera you can find online courses, Specializations, certificates and degrees from 190+ world-class universities and companies, including: Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Google, IBM, and more.

Our mission is to radically transform the way the world learns.

A vision for our children’s future

At DreamBox, we believe all children can excel at learning, no matter where they start, where they live, or who they are. Along with district administrators, teachers, principals, and parents, we are dedicated to helping children realize their potential. Yet every child must be challenged, encouraged, and engaged in an individual way.

That’s why we developed our revolutionary Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ technology, and combined it with a rigorous curriculum and an engaging game-like environment, to change the learning paradigm.

Our innovative technology captures every interaction a student makes while working within and between lessons. As it dynamically adapts and individualizes instruction in real time, it provides millions of learning paths tailored to each student’s unique needs. It is a ground-breaking, student-driven learning environment that leverages gaming fundamentals to inspire and empower students to build 21st century thinking and problem solving skills, master key concepts, increase achievement, and boost long-lasting confidence in learning.

Core beliefs that guide our vision

    Children persist in learning when they are engaged, challenged and having fun.

    Students are teachers as well as learners who can drive their own progress.

    Teachers need support for differentiating instruction to a broad range of learners.

    To thrive as life-long learners requires mastery of critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Our future depends on helping the next generation learn how to learn. DreamBox Learning believes that all students can exceed their own and others’ expectations. With the right learning environment, one that adapts intelligently to each individual’s unique skills and needs, and one that is student-centered and student driven, we can help millions of learners achieve this vision.

We’re the effective elementary and middle school math software solution that:

    Adapts to the individual learner

    Continuous formative assessment in and between lessons, to provide the right next lesson at the right time.

    Personalizes instruction from intervention through enrichment

    Strategically increases the learning velocity of struggling students, advanced students, and on-level students.

    Provides access and equity for ELLs

    Our approach using rich visuals, sound design, and interactivity supports deep math comprehension. Every subscription includes both Spanish and English—to enable Hispanic students to learn in the language that works.

    Develops skills and closes gaps fast

    Continuous support of conceptual understanding, fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving skills, plus 24/7 online access, keeps students building achievement.

    Integrates assessment with instruction

    The ongoing capture of math gaps in student understanding—and filling them—ensures that learners understand concepts before moving on to new lessons.

    Aligns to state and regional standards

    Aligns with the Common Core, TEKS, and other U.S. and Canadian standards to make learning and teaching easier.

    Empowers with actionable data and reporting

    We support teachers and administrators with standards-aligned data to inform instruction, and monitor growth and use to ensure strong implementation.

    Delivers professional development that’s immediate, relevant, and actionable

    We offer on-site instruction, live webinars, and MyFlexPD™ On Demand sessions to deliver learner-centric content focused on educators’ individual needs.

    “Halton is increasing the emphasis on integrating teaching strategies that focus on using number sense and conceptual understanding. Our teachers are beginning to use ten frames, number lines, arrays, and math racks in their instruction and when modeling student thinking in Number Talks. They really like how DreamBox uses similar models, and strategies in its instruction.”

Guild’s mission is to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education, with a double-bottom line business model that does well by doing good.

There are more than 30 million working adults without a high school diploma, and 70% of the U.S. population does not have a college degree.

Rachel Romer Carlson and Brittany Stich founded Guild Education to help those groups gain an education through their employer’s tuition benefits — leading to increased employee satisfaction, and improved retention for employers.

We’re so proud to be certified as a B Corporation, a verified recognition of Guild’s commitment to meeting the highest standards for our employees, our community and our customers.

Guild Core Values

Like our students, the Guild team is driven, passionate and eager to grow. We stand by a set of core values to guide and influence all the work we do with our students, universities and employer partners.

Scale for Students, Students for Scale

Our number one investment is the success of our students. When they succeed, so do we.

Celebrate Change

In a world where the only constant is change – we thrive on remaining agile and delivering the right solutions in the moment.

Have a Learner’s Mindset

We strive to reach our full potential through feedback, reflection, and continued education.

Be an Owner

We balance autonomy with accountability and empower employees to deliver on our mission.

Be Teammates

Four college students—Jeremy Friedman, Ryan Hwang, Tim Trinidad, and Bill Kindler—saw firsthand how education technology fell short of its promise to improve the learning experience for students and instructors.

They decided to change that by building an LMS aligned with the needs and learning style of education in the real world.

Much has Changed but Our Mission's the Same

Fast forward to today. Schoology is now in every corner of the world. We’ve grown and so has our community, but our mission is just the same. We’ll continue to advance what's possible in education.

Our Values

Passion is the Most Powerful Engine

Our shared passion for helping instructors and students have the best education experience possible keeps us focused and drives us to work hard every day.

There’s No Success Without Collaboration

After all, collaboration is the core of what Schoology is about. We believe that the instructors, the students, the parents, the administrators, and the Schoology team are all in this together.

Innovation is in Our Blood

We build products to inspire the innovators in the classroom and, in turn, inspire the world’s most important resource—the innovators of the future.

We Learn Every Day

We strive to stay curious, listen to those who know, learn something each day, and always be open to new ideas. How could we not?

Integrity is Our Foundation

We stand by our word, our mission, our values, our product, and each other. There may be glitches along the way, but integrity combined with trust and respect gives us the strength to push forward together.