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

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From this second fund New Markets has already made several investments: Practice (formerly ApprenNet), a mobile video-based learning tool; Credly , a digital credentialing platform; and Noodle Partners. Part of the new fund will also be used for what Palmer calls “recapitalization,” a scenario that companies want to avoid.

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Game-Based Learning Gains Steam in Higher Education: Triseum Raises $1.43 Million to Transform Educational Experiences for Students

EdNews Daily

New investment into Triseum continues to provide growth opportunities for a company already breaking barriers with over 40 percent of its staff being female. Student graduation and thruput of students is dropping and our educational delivery method for our mobile, digitally driven next generation is failing.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027), you will probably have these attributes: easy to get along with people, you have a deep sense of curiosity, and you like to learn new things. NG) This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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Amplify’s Been Quiet. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018

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It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. The company is no longer as high-profile—or as big—as it once was. What have the past years taught him, and where is the company going? And I would say Amplify is increasingly a curriculum company.

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‘God Forbid I Have to Move Again’: One Home-Based Child Care Provider’s Experience With Housing

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By 2003, Wise had three young children of her own. She called every property management company and landlord she could find. The families in her program mobilized too. Building a Second Family Wise, 56, immigrated to the U.S. from England in the 1980s. Hayley Wise “It was a very unsafe situation,” she reflects.

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Needing students, Appalachian colleges reach out to fast-growing Hispanic population

The Hechinger Report

to go too far from the mobile home park where she’s grown up in Conover, North Carolina, when she goes to college. It’s less than four miles from the Paradise Valley Mobile Home Park, where the Cantus and other mostly Hispanic Catholic families live. Maria Cantu (l.) doesn’t want her daughter Janeth (r.) Photo: Jesse Pratt.

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Nearly 60% of Teens Use Their Own Mobile Devices in School for Learning

The Innovative Educator

The ultimate learning experience for students is both highly collaborative and extremely personalized, supported by mobile devices and digital content, reports Project Tomorrow in their latest Speak Up report. This year, nearly half of teachers (47 percent) said their students have regular access to mobile devices in their classrooms.