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Who is the Theranos of Education?

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Kemp Edmonds, an investor and entrepreneur, observed AltSchool’s mission like this: “Here’s technology coming to save this industry with its incredible promises that often lack an understanding of how things work in unique and specific industries, pedagogies and dynamic jurisdictions.”

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EverFi Rocks the Edtech Industry With $190 Million Fundraise

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Founded in 2008, EverFi offers digital content that tackles “big, intractable social issues” for K-12, higher-ed and adult learners who are often underserved in existing schools and companies, Tammy Wincup, the company’s Chief Operating Officer, tells EdSurge. This marks one of the biggest fundraises for a U.S.-based

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AVer Launches World’s First All-in-One Camera with AI Audio for the Classroom

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Teachers can connect to another USB camera for picture-in-picture image when using the software. Compatible with AVerTouch Software: Simply connect your A30 with one touch to immediately start sharing content and annotate as you go. Picture-in-Picture Interface: The A30 has both HDMI and USB outputs for video streaming.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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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. In 2008, iParadigms was acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. based software company that offers AI-assisted grading tools. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based

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Instructure Co-Founder Goes After Digital Courseware With His Next Edtech Startup

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That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. (He This time around, he’s targeted another behemoth in the education industry: publishers and their homework software. Pearson spokesman Scott Overland pushed back against the idea that publisher software is outdated.

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School Work and Surveillance

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I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn.

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