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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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.” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo?

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Perhaps the biggest acquisition of the year was Edmodo. million for Edmodo – only about $15 million of which was cash. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution.

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

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Today, far fewer are getting funded on the “freemium” model, a proposition that has fueled the growth of startups like ClassDojo and Remind, but proved challenging for others like Edmodo. Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The story is actually a plug for Pathstream (not currently in his investment portfolio), which “supports the delivery of career-critical software skill training in VR/AR and digital marketing at colleges and universities.” How’d He Learn to Fly?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. The reading software-maker has raised $3.2 The big “business of ed-tech” news of the week: Edmodo has been acquired by Chinese game-maker NetDragon.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

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This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” I made that selection in part because several ed-tech companies indicated that year that this was what they hoped to become – the MOOC startups, for example, as well as Edmodo, a social network marketed to K–12 schools. A failure to “platform.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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