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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

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. Udemy (skills training) – $173 million. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That class is produced by language learning software maker Rosetta Stone. We have attendees signed up from 133 countries! What makes this newsworthy?

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Online education (admittedly, a very generic category): Investments include Udemy ($60,000,000), DigiSchool ($15,700,000), MasterClass ($15,000,000), UNICAF ($12,000,000), OpenClassroom ($6,740,000). According to Edsurge , changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will soon be another “ win for ed-tech vendors.”