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The Next Edtech IPO Might Be This London-Based Language Learning Company

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Niesner claims the company is on track to hit $40 million in revenue in 2020. The company is still shy of the $100 million revenue threshold commonly associated with IPO-ready companies. How They Work Busuu has grown considerably since its 2008 founding. Busuu CEO Bernhard Niesner on his company's origins.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers. Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public.

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The Future of Canvas

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Drop the company name Instructure on the average educator and you may get a blank stare in return. Now mention the company’s flagship product Canvas and be ready for a flash of instant recognition. This was the first Innovations podcast recorded in person, but it certainly won’t be the last.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

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This article originally appeared on the Clayton Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer.

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Degreed Raises $75 Million to Expand Corporate Learning Platform

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For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. To date, the San Francisco-based company has raised about $140 million. are now 20 percent.”

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?Academics Knock Academia.edu’s Premium Account and Paywalled Search Features

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When social media site Academia.edu hit the scene in 2008, it was hailed by some scholars as an alternative to pricey academic publishing and peer-review models. Without a subscription, the website’s search engine still retrieves articles with headlines containing the searched keywords. Jennifer Bazeley (@jwbazeley) May 1, 2017.

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5 Awesome Things for Teachers to Do This Summer

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A 2008 Ball State University study found that 43% of teachers said they slept an average of 6 hours or less per night. In a quote from Scientific American from their article, “ Can you catch up on lost sleep? ” “Go to bed when you are tired, and allow your body to wake you in the morning (no alarm clock allowed).