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Hobsons’ Higher Ed Business Split and Sold in Separate Deals Totaling $410M

Edsurge

But it has been actively expanding its portfolio, purchasing nearly a dozen edtech companies over the past five years. based company claims it serves more than 45 million students in more than 80 countries. based company claims it serves more than 45 million students in more than 80 countries.

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Game-Based Learning Gains Steam in Higher Education: Triseum Raises $1.43 Million to Transform Educational Experiences for Students

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New investment into Triseum continues to provide growth opportunities for a company already breaking barriers with over 40 percent of its staff being female. Triseum has grown to over thirty staff, incorporating former Texas A&M University students, professors and leading experts in game development from around the country.

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Impact funds pour money into ed tech businesses

The Hechinger Report

Ed tech companies are benefitting from the rise of impact funds. In September 2019, a young Canadian ed tech company called Classcraft announced that it had raised $7.5 Teachers choose which behaviors they want to foster and students rack up points for actions like being kind or handing in their homework on time.).

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Rangatiratanga: How Tapping Into New Zealand’s Indigenous Concepts Sparked New Educational Gains

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Started in 2007, the program now serves 3,500 students, over 80 percent of whom come from Maori and Pasifika families. Teachers and researchers are measuring student engagement in learning outcomes, not absences from school. Children are coming to school engaged in their learning as never before. million (US $7.6

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In the fall of 2007, Courtney went on to attend the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities as a first-generation college student. I used to work in cafes and restaurants and in 2005 me and friend of mine set up this company with social responsibility. We started the Tour company to show the real side of slums and its community.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Peter Thiel and the Future (and Funding) of Education Technology

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He was the first investor in the social media company in 2004.) Peter Thiel’s entrepreneurial and investment history, in brief: He co-founded the online payments company PayPal in 1998 with Max Levchin. In 2004, Thiel founded Palantir Technologies, a data analysis company funded in part by Q-Tel, the investment wing of the CIA.