Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. edtech investments in 2011. edtech investments in 2011. Yet at 126 deals, the number of fundraises in 2017 is also at its lowest since 2011. The answers depend on who you ask. That may be changing.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. 2011-2020: From Early Adopters To Mainstream Adoption. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. Some of this is what Jane Mayer describes in her 2016 book Dark Money – the powerful and secretive networks of right-wing billionaire activists.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.” ” More via Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a Frostburg State University football player who died after suffering a head injury in 2011. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). and retailer George L.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017.

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