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

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify. But Kenneth R.

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2023 CODiE Awards Announced

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Since 1986, the SIIA CODiE Awards have honored thousands of software, education, information and media products, leaders and teams for achieving excellence. SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. I’ll be digging deeper into these companies and products in the coming weeks.

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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. Vista Equity Partners expects the software training business will rebound. “We

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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.

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KidWind Virtual Workshops Available for Educators

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These scholarships were made possible through generous contributions form Orsted , National Renewable Energy Laboratory , and Vernier Software & Technology. Since 2004, KidWind has held more than 800 training events for more than 50,000 teachers all over the world.

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Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B

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based developer of software that uses artificial intelligence to scan students’ writing and code assignments to check for plagiarism, will be acquired by Advance Publications, a media conglomerate that also owns Condé Nast. He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based billion in 2015.

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Rave Mobile Safety Launches Rave Collaborate for Tactical Incident Collaboration

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Founded in 2004, Rave’s award-winning software solutions are backed by leading growth equity firm TCV. Let Rave enable you to do all you can today TM to keep everyone safe. For more information, visit [link] , read our company blog, and follow us on LinkedIn , Twitter and Facebook.