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Top Hat has been steadily expanding its suite of tools ever since the company was founded in 2009, and in recent years has charted a course to “create the next generation of interactive courseware,” says Silagadze in an interview. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

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I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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

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Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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