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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001. Under Vista’s ownership, PowerSchool has spent more than $1 billion acquiring other edtech companies, including grabbing the Schoology learning management system popular with K-12 schools. And she added that remote learning is only one piece of what their services aid. “As

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc.

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Fueled by Big Rounds, Edtech Funding Surges to $887M in First Half of 2017

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EverFi $190 million $251 million Hero K12 $150 million $150 million Grammarly $110 million $110 million Coursera $64 million $210 million AltSchool $40 million $173 million MasterClass $35 million $56.4 These new firms coming in big checks are going to learn that lesson,” Palmer says. Round Size. Total Funding.

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

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But some of it, Diana Oblinger observes in a recent eCampus News article , “may prompt us to re-conceptualize education in a world of lifelong learning and partnerships with smart machines.” According to the US Education Department IPEDS surveys, the largest number of public and non-profit private campuses was 3,393, in 2001.

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Daphne Koller Bids Farewell to Coursera, Hello to Calico

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Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller has ridden the MOOC craze as the company’s CEO and later president. Now Koller is returning to her background in machine-learning research. It is time for me to turn to another critical challenge—the development of machine learning and its application to improving human health,” Koller wrote in an Aug.

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

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“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. With enough data and some machine learning, you can identify – statistically – the most common obstacles. Is learning “like a map”?

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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.” LMS is learning management system. Education Politics.