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Utah’s Edtech Unicorn, Pluralsight Files for Initial Public Offering

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Founded in 2004, Pluralsight currently offers more than 6,000 online courses on a variety of technical, business and design skills—from architecture to manufacturing, game development and software engineering. edtech industry since Instructure, another Utah-based company, went public in November 2015.

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Not yet convinced? Not yet convinced?

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Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B

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He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. billion, the deal is the larger than the total amount that edtech startups raised in 2018, which reached a new peak last year at $1.45 billion purchase of Lynda in 2015. billion in 2015. The company has swapped hands several times over the years.

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Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

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In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). In 2015, Vista Equity Partners purchased PowerSchool, a student information system, and has since acquired another eight education companies.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2004 $695,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $700,500,000). FY 2015 $0. State Educational Technology Directors Association ( SETDA ) annual reports of program implementation: 2004. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role appeared first on EdTech Strategies. FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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Harnessing the Maker Spirit: Dale Dougherty’s New Book, ‘Free to Make’

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Come meet Dale Dougherty, Tim O’Reilly and Betsy Corcoran at the SF Edtech Meetup on Thursday, Nov. But in 2004, Dougherty leaned over during a cab ride and suggested they start a quarterly publication that would be like “Martha Stewart for Geeks,” complete with “recipes” for homemade projects and techie ingredients lists.