Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

billion, matching the previous high for the single-year funding total of this decade, set in 2015. There’s a notable difference between 2018 and 2015, however. In 2015 there were 165 deals, versus just 112 in 2018. Over time, as investors learned which business models worked—and which didn’t—some have fled the sector.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” More on this scramble to serve (profit from) low-income broadband customers in the upgrades/downgrades section below.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.” ” The company has raised $16.5

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. ” More via The New York Times. ResearchGate raised $52.6

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Vive la MOOC Révolution. The British MOOC company FutureLearn entered the US market.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. Via Business Insider : “Online learning may be the future of education – we compared 4 platforms that are leading the way.”

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