Itslearning
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| Stock company | |
| Industry | Educational |
| Genre | Learning management system |
| Founded | 1999 in Bergen, Norway |
| Headquarters | Bergen, Norway |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Ulf Sven Ivar Mattsson (Chairman) Arne Bergby(CEO) |
| Website | itslearning |
Itslearning AS is a digital learning management system developed by the Norwegian company itslearning AS. It is per 2016 the largest learning platform in Europe, and one of the four largest in the world. Additionally, itslearning AS is one of the fifty fastest growing technology companies in Europe.
It is a web-based learning management system designed for both lower and higher degrees of education: from kindergartens and primary schools to colleges.
The system has over four million active users worldwide with many users in the United States, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Brazil. Over 900.000 users exist in Norway alone. In 2016, CEO Arne Bergby claimed over 7,5 million people use itslearning world over.
The company headquarters are in Bergen, Norway, with offices in Atlanta, Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Copenhagen, Enschede, Helsinki, London, Malmö, Mulhouse, and Paris.
The system was created by a group of students at Bergen University College in 1998 as a master's project on the topic of "virtual classrooms". A group of teachers asked whether the system could be created, and after receiving a sum of start-up money from the College itslearning was created following year in 1999, and Bergen University College became the first user of the system. The company was first established as "it:solutions".
In 2004, Arne Bergby became CEO of itslearning; per 2015 he owns 9,16 per cent of the holding company in ownership of itslearning. A U.S. office was opened in 2009 in Massachusetts. In 2013, itslearning acquired SkoleIntra, and in 2015 Fronter, making it the largest learning management system in Europe. In 2014, 40 per cent of the company was sold to the Swedish private equity fund EQT; the company was at the time valued at 600 million NOK (ca. $73 million per 2016).
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