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With New Online Marketplace, Community Colleges Hope to Better Compete With For-Profits

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They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. As Tracy Hartzler, president of Central New Mexico Community College, said in the Unmudl report: “Without a doubt we are thinking about lifelong learning.”

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

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The report was released exclusively to EdWeek Market Brief today, and will be given wider distribution Tuesday. The study at that time placed the value of the market at $800 million as of 2012-13. Training for student assessments: 27 percent. Quizzes/assessments: 68 percent. Online PD Course Findings. Audio: 72 percent.

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Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund

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Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. Since launching in 2012, Rethink has invested in 27 companies that serve a broad spectrum of learners and needs, ranging from elementary-grade grammar ( NoRedInk ) to college student success platforms ( Civitas Learning ) and career training for professionals ( General Assembly ).

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Income Share Agreements Dominate Y Combinator’s Latest Education Graduates

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Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston, left, and CEO Michael Seibel take questions from reporters before the second Demo Day of 2019. Juno College of Technology is the new name of a school known as HackerYou since its founding in 2012. The school doesn’t assess students with letter grades and has grown to 80 schools throughout Arizona.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Remember Edmodo? The company has raised some $77.5

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. Newkirk concedes they are not the first to use these techniques, but the combination he and his colleagues have devised is getting results beyond what others have reported. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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.” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The quotation is from 2012. A 46% increase since 1980. ” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone.

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