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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

Most people don’t consider education technology to be such an important industry, but it’s actually gigantic. Traditional education has always been based on the power of storytelling. This is why gamification plays such a major role in contemporary education.”. Let’s take a look! 3D learning. Game-based learning.

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Digital Courseware Provider Top Hat Gets $130M and a New CEO

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Another balding founder of a tech company is passing the baton off to a successor. No, this is not the same shellshock as Jeff Bezos’ resignation letter, nor is the company anywhere as big as Amazon. His successor will be Joe Rohrlich, who previously served as chief revenue officer for Bazaarvoice, an e-commerce analytics company.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. The company charges $1,500 for one game available to 2,500 players, with $499 for every administrator added to the game.

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PresenceLearning and Highlights Partner To Support Children With Special Needs

eSchool News

Speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and behavioral and mental health professionals using PresenceLearning’s proprietary platform now have access to an enhanced digital library featuring a curated collection of more than 160 content pieces from Highlights’ extensive catalog. About PresenceLearning. PresenceLearning, Inc.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

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Sal Khan on Expanding Into Early Learning and Launching a Peer-to-Peer Tutoring Platform

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“A lot more folks started leaning hard on us,” says Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit that provides free educational resources. Who would have thought that a pandemic would have made education such a hot topic—would have made online education, and Khan Academy, almost like an essential service?”

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Capstone Sells Digital Reading Platform, myON to Private Equity Firm

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Terms of the deal, the first in the education sector for Francisco, were not disclosed. MyON was previously a division of Capstone , which formed in 1990 as a print publisher serving schools and libraries. In 2011, the company launched myON as a digital service with roughly 1,000 digital titles on the platform.

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