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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001. As districts move back into classrooms, we are very focused on the fall and helping districts support the learning loss that occurred,” she added. Last week Instructure, which makes the Canvas learning management system, went public , and Coursera had its IPO in March.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public).

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Campus Closures. What’s Tech Got to Do With It?

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Some of this investment will be conventional—computer-lab renewal, classroom technology, network upgrades and such. According to the US Education Department IPEDS surveys, the largest number of public and non-profit private campuses was 3,393, in 2001. Closures As the graph below shows, college closures aren’t a brand new trend.

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

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Of course, the “unexpected” occurs all the time – on the road and in the classroom. Anyone whose car has at least four doors and is newer than 2001 – Uber will also help you finance a new car, even if you have a terrible credit score. Hopefully the human driver is paying attention. Anyone with car insurance.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” Education Politics. ” asks the BBC.