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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready. billion in 2010.

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Weld North Education Acquires LearnZillion in Its First K-12 Core Curriculum Deal

Edsurge

The products in Weld North’s current portfolio—Edgenuity and Imagine Learning—largely offer materials developed for supplemental, intervention and remedial purposes. Core curriculum was not LearnZillion’s initial focus when the company started in 2011. Today, the team numbers 35 employees, who will all join Weld North Education.

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Edgenuity Acquires Compass Learning to Expand Online, Blended Learning Reach

Marketplace K-12

Edgenuity today announced its acquisition of Compass Learning, bringing together two well-known ed-tech companies whose digital offerings will now span kindergarten through 12th grade. headquarters and the Austin, Texas, offices of Compass Learning. headquarters and the Austin, Texas, offices of Compass Learning. Company Exec.

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Fueled by Big Rounds, Edtech Funding Surges to $887M in First Half of 2017

Edsurge

Frontline Education, controlled by Insight Venture Partners, has snapped up another 10—most recently, professional-learning provider School Improvement Network. The strategy has worked for a few older companies: Kaplan, for instance, began in the test-prep business and has since moved into higher education, corporate training (and a.

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Google Offers Free Cloud Access to Colleges, Plays Catch Up to Amazon, Microsoft

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We want computer science students and faculty to experience Google Cloud Platform and learn what’s possible when you apply cloud computing to tough problems, just like we do at Google,” says Bram Bout, director of Google for Education. Google Cloud launched in 2011, but has caught up to competitors to.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

million since the last peak, in the fall of 2011 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. president of Babson College , whose Academy for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurial Learning makes money for the business university by training educators worldwide how to teach entrepreneurship.

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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. ” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement.

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