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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

Edsurge

The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. This fund will be used to support investments between $1 million to $5 million at the Series A and B stages for up to 20 K-12 and higher-ed startups.

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The Assessment Range: Using Data To Meaningfully Affect Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

The Assessment Range: Using Data In The Classroom To Meaningfully Affect Learning. If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind. Simply put, most planning templates in most schools used by most teachers on most days don’t allow for data to be easily absorbed.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. The list goes on and on.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. The list goes on and on.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

TAL Education Group , which began as a solo tutoring operation in 2003 and has since grown into a publicly-traded empire, boasting $620 million in revenue in 2015 from a network of over 300 brick-and-mortar tutoring centers. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) edtech startups.

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A Domain of One's Own in a Post-Ownership Society

Hack Education

Our content and our data, shared publicly, become theirs to profit from. What data and/or content can you take with you when you finish a class or when you graduate? When it comes to all our digital data, the answer to the question “what do you own” is probably “not much.” What do you own? Your degree?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. The Omidyar Network has invested $850,000 in the “future of tech” research organization Data & Society. The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19 Bomberbot has raised $795,000 from Social Impact Ventures. million total. .” Never humanity.