{"id":32023,"date":"2016-02-11T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T10:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=32023"},"modified":"2016-02-11T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T10:28:57","slug":"digischools-education-platform-gets-e14-million-for-european-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2016\/02\/digischools-education-platform-gets-e14-million-for-european-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Digischool&#8217;s education platform gets \u20ac14 Million for European expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/iPad-math-learning.jpg\" alt=\"iPad-math-learning\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Online education platform Digischool has raised \u20ac14 Million led by Creadev, the investment arm for the Mulliez family, a notable French distribution\u00a0power behind Auchan, Leroy Merlin, Boulanger &amp; Decathlon, among others. The investment round also included Cl\u00e9ment C\u00e9zard,\u00a0a former early employee at Deezer &amp; current European BizDev Director for Netflix.\u00a0Digischool owns 13 web sites &amp; 10 applications which\u00a0create a complete digital education curriculum &#8211; everything from English lessons to high school exit exams, from professional education to driving school.<\/p>\n<p>The team of 60\u00a0employees &amp; an additional 100 dedicated teachers to date makes available over 300,000 courses to the\u00a015-25 age group, which are available across all devices (even, coming soon, on your smart TV), and 90% of that content is available for free to registered users. More than 8\u00a0Million monthly visitors and 137,000 new registered users per month make digischool one of France&#8217;s fastest growing educational platforms.<\/p>\n<p>With an established presence in France (50% of middle schoolers &amp; highschoolers are signed up on the platform), Digischool says that 2016 will be the year they expand to Spain &amp; England,\u00a0setting the bar high for themselves in terms of 2016 objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30 Million visitors &amp; 500K registered users from the UK &amp; SPain<\/li>\n<li>40 new team members in 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Digischool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2014\/10\/02\/digischool-bilan\/\">has grown fast<\/a>, born from a merger between Kreactive &amp; Media Etudiant in 2011 &#8211; the\u00a0education space is tense, both with actors in the US (uDemy, Coursera, udacity) as well as France (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2015\/03\/10\/moocs-go-mainstream\/\">Openclassrooms<\/a>, notably) &#8211; a comprehensive list of all MOOCs and online courses has been compiled by the <a href=\"http:\/\/oedb.org\/open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Education Database<\/a>. As Digischool expands through Europe,\u00a0they will need to prove that there is enough synergy between the education systems they seek to replace to justify growing internationally &#8211; each new market will have new languages, new\u00a0curriculum (at least from a government perspective, and thus in the eyes of\u00a0students). Can Digischool become the next Kaplan? 2016\u00a0will be the year we find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online education platform Digischool has raised \u20ac14 Million led by Creadev, the investment arm for the Mulliez family, a notable French distribution\u00a0power behind Auchan, Leroy Merlin, Boulanger &amp; Decathlon, among others. The investment round also included Cl\u00e9ment C\u00e9zard,\u00a0a former early employee at Deezer &amp; current European BizDev Director for Netflix.\u00a0Digischool owns 13 web sites &amp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":32025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}