The Mission to Scale Affordable, Engaging Learning Continues
Earlier today we announced our partnership with Learnosity to bring best-in-class assessment capabilities to Junction. Learnosity's dozens of item types covering mathematical expressions, graphing, chemical equations, matching and more are available today and live...
Junction Offers $25,000 in Grants to Study Courseware Efficacy
JUNCTION EDUCATION OFFERS GRANTS TO STUDY COURSEWARE EFFICACY Five grants of $5000 to be awarded to selected institutions Short Hills, NJ: Junction Education, a courseware start-up founded by former McGraw-Hill senior executives, Vineet Madan and Derek Wessler, will...
The Full Stack Education Startup
We're frequently asked about why we started Junction and where is it headed. The simple answer is that we believe the entirety of the teaching and learning experience - for instructors, students and administrators - will matter far more in the years ahead than it has...
BusinessInsider: Some on Wall Street say $1.2 trillion in student debt could trigger the next market crash
Sensationalistic headline aside, this is something we've been concerned about for many years and one of the reasons that we founded Junction. Affordable, effective and time-efficient learning should be within the reach of more students. What that implies is that...
Chronicle: Tools That Limit Distraction May Raise Student Performance in Online Classes
One of Junction's founding missions was to come up with an interface design and user experience for an online learning environment that would maximize student focus and minimize distractions during study / learning time under the hypothesis that distraction-free...
Sneak Peek Into The Junction Education Course Builder
April is turning out to be quite the month for us here at Junction Education. Last week we were named as finalists in three major industry competitions: The Emerging Technologies for Learning / Sloan Consortium Annual Conference The Milken-Penn GSE Education Business...
The View From Campus
We're frequently asked about instructor and student perspectives on Junction and while we often share quotes, anecdotes and statistics we thought it might be helpful to let our users speak for themselves. We had the good fortune of spending time with Dean Ed Weis and...
Emerging Technologies for Online Learning
We're pleased to announce that Junction has been selected to participate in the startup Launch Pad at the Emerging Technologies for Online Learning (formerly Sloan Consortium / MERLOT) conference coming up in April. We look forward to connecting with instructors,...
Over 1 million served
We launched Junction seven months ago with the idea that we could help make teaching more efficient and effective and learning more affordable and engaging. Earlier this week we served our one millionth page of learning content which, had they all been printed pages...
Lighting a Beacon
Data, reports, analytics - the chatter is everywhere and you can’t take five steps at any education conference without being enveloped by the discussion. So how exactly can we start using data - today - in an unobstrusive way to help facilitate and improve student...