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

Edsurge

The Utah-based company was founded in 2004 to compete against the likes of Lynda and other online education companies focused on serving technology and business professionals. Today, Pluralsight offers a library of over 7,500 online courses across technology, design and business skills.

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SCORM – Why does it matter and why do you need it?

Kitaboo on EdTech

You want to do this cost-effectively without too much fuss over content development, and deliver the course from your existing Learning Management System in an efficient, easy manner. Most eLearning companies use the standard to develop SCORM- compliant content because it is interoperable. Just creating HTML5 interactivities won’t do.

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Will a new batch of licenses help rural students get online?

The Hechinger Report

Federal licenses to use spectrum that can carry mobile internet are a hot commodity, coveted by big telecommunications companies with money to spend at the periodic spectrum auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). We have this perfect alignment of stars. Suddenly, this sleepy spectrum became extremely valuable.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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New Mexico Adopts Rave Panic Button to Improve School Safety

eSchool News

Rave provides the only fully interoperable, 9-1-1 integrated, FirstNet-listed Panic Button platform connecting emergency services, 9-1-1 systems and multi-jurisdictional first responder agencies across a single school safety solution. Founded in 2004, Rave’s award-winning software solutions are backed by leading growth equity firm TCV.

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Diversifying Your Classroom Book Collections? Avoid these 7 Pitfalls

MindShift

As protests against racial injustice spread to communities large and small in this year, many educators have been pushed to examine how systemic racism harms students. Some have publicly proclaimed the steps they will take to create anti-racist schools , including diversifying classroom and library bookshelves. More than half of U.S.

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Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

edWeb.net

Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems. Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004.