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QS World University Rankings 2018: The Global Trends

EdNews Daily

The 2018 QS World University Rankings are the largest guide to global higher education performance that QS, a London-based higher education think-tank, has produced since its inaugural edition of 2004. Jack Moran. Education Writer and Rankings Auditor. QS Quacquarelli Symonds.

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

Thu, 09/27/2018 - 15:46. But what exactly is a competency-based education system, and what role does technology play in the design and support of this system? Classroom Technology Strengthens Competency-Based Assessment. Technology can also play a critical part in the feedback loop. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Pluralsight, Vista Equity Partners Agree to $3.5 Billion Acquisition Deal

Edsurge

Pluralsight , the publicly-traded provider of online training courses on technology skills, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash deal worth approximately $3.5 Today, Pluralsight offers a library of over 7,500 online courses across technology, design and business skills. in cash per share.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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Omidyar Network Spins Off Education Portfolio Into Independent Investment Firm

Edsurge

Since 2018, the investment and philanthropic vehicle started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, has spun off five independent firms that grew out of its investment activities. The spin out is a positive signal for the greater education technology sector, Klement says. “We The Omidyar Network is going through changes.

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Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B

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A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. In 2018 it acquired a competitor in VeriCite , along with Gradescope , a Berkeley, Calif.-based billion in 2015.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5

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