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

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Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Not yet convinced?

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

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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.

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

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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

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The Farmington, Utah-based provider of online courses for technology professionals has been on the radars of industry analysts ever since its $135 million Series B fundraise in 2014. The long-awaited filing finally happened. This morning, Pluralsight announced it had confidentially submitted paperwork for an initial public offering.

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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. based software company that offers AI-assisted grading tools. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based billion in 2015.

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