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

Edsurge

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. With more than 800 employees, Pluralsight plans to add as many as 2,400 more over the next decade, reports Deseret News.

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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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SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

SCORM 2004 When SCORM 2004 was launched, it was called SCORM 1.3. As of now, there is no news regarding an updated version of SCORM 2004. It was updated shortly after, and only a few products now support SCORM 1.1. solved a lot of problems SCORM 1.1 It is the latest release and has all the updated features and tools.

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SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

The status of the course is usually reported by SCORM using four terms, and they are as follows: Passed. SCORM 2004 . When SCORM 2004 was launched, it was called SCORM 1.3. As of now, there is no news regarding an updated version of SCORM 2004. Lesson location refers to the place from where a learner left the module.

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

Doug Levin

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: The First-Year Implementation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in Five States (American Institutes for Research, 2000).

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

Edsurge

To do that, it has partnered with the Empirical Educator Project , a group of colleges and edtech companies led by e-Literate , a popular education blog, that holds summits and encourages participants to try each others’ tools and approaches.

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Resources For Teachers and Instructional Coaches – January 2021

Edthena

When we began our residential summer learning program in 2004, we wrapped our curriculum around a “team model” that reflects the collaborative way that the world works. The report suggests the creation of a national repository for Child Development Associate training options. Redefine credentials.