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

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Core curriculum was not LearnZillion’s initial focus when the company started in 2011. Then, the company worked on building a library of supplemental materials and instructional videos, many created by teachers it paid. We have holes in our library,” he offers, adding that “there are core curriculum needs that we’re eager to fill.”.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. I''m also a proposed panelist for "Education2.0 - Social Media Drives Student Success" being hosted by Jennifer Openshaw. November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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Today - David Risher from WorldReader.org on "Books for All"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

That’s our library,” replied the orphanage’s leader. The girls had lost interest in the library’s books, and new books would take months to arrive– if they ever arrived at all. In 2011, he was named a Microsoft Alumni Foundation Integral Fellow and a Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Or something else?