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

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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. Together, the company claims it serves over 17,000 customers, including 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies.

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2023 CODiE Awards Announced

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The SIIA Education Division serves and represents more than 200 member companies that provide software, digital content and other technologies that address educational needs. I’ll be digging deeper into these companies and products in the coming weeks. To date, we have helped educate more than 50 million children worldwide.

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AeroFarms Celebrates World Environment Day with Bronx School PS 85

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The vertical farm system empowers students and educators to participate in the full growing process from seed to salad, while experiencing the advantages of hyperlocal, sustainable food production and learning through STEAM education.

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

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1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. billion in 2010.

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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. Over the years, it saw the most success in education and the company shifted to focus specifically on that market. The founders had to bootstrap the company in its early days.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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One of the biggest concerns by college leaders about buying such tools from commercial vendors is whether colleges will have access to the underlying algorithmic logic—or whether the systems will be a “black box.” Carnegie Mellon has a long history of commercializing its digital-learning tools, though.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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The novel tells the coming-of-age story of three friends who start a video-game design company. It’s not just parents who are teaching their own children at home these days; now entrepreneurial people and companies are instructing pods of children in a variety of settings. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.