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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. While there’s competition in internet search , for instance, Google has 92 percent of the market, while the nearest competitor, Microsoft’s Bing, has a mere 2 percent. We measure ourselves on outcomesoutcomes in terms of how many people have we impacted.”

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K12 Eyes Further Deals After $165M Acquisition of Coding Bootcamp Galvanize

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Still, the deal is less than the estimated $168 million that Galvanize has raised since it started in 2012, according to Crunchbase. That means that investors may not reap financial returns at a multiple they’d like, as far as ideal outcomes in the venture capital world goes. Its traditional software business saw a 16.2

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How Districts Can Unlock Actionable Data

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Along with a 1:1 goal, comes the deluge of edtech tools, software, and applications into classrooms. Mike Schwab has spent his career in finance, enterprise software sales and edtech. He has been working ever since to help bring Google for Education solutions to school districts around the country. About the Host.

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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

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educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. Carolan, who previously co-founded and managed the New Schools Seed Fund in 2012, noted that the average seed round used to be around $700,000. Source: EdSurge. It’s now double that,” she added.

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The Coding Bootcamp Hype Cycle

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In 2012 those in the bootcamp space had discovered a secret: the popularization of open-source languages like Ruby and JavaScript and the growth of startups that used those technologies combined to reinvent the way that programmers could be trained and become effective quickly. The Gartner Hype Cycle. The "Peak".

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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? They’re amazing.

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How A Podcast-Turned-Startup Is Trying to Get More Non-Traditional Students Into Tech

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But coding bootcamps have only existed since 2012, and they’ve been pushed to hold themselves accountable to getting people into jobs. Now, most of [the coding bootcamps] either rely on Facebook ads or Google searches, or just the reputation from influencers talking about them and hoping that students fall from the sky.