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Labster Raises $21 Million to Bring More Digital Lab Simulations to Classrooms

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Copenhagen-based Labster, founded in 2012, plans to use the money toward content development and expansion in the U.S Labster previously raised $525,000 in seed funding in 2012. One of its biggest projects to date is an online biology program built with Arizona State University, Lenovo and Google, which debuted in summer 2018.

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Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?

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The early rise of the iPad peaked in 2012-13 at about 40 percent of shipments. Microsoft, perhaps best known for its several-thousand-dollar HoloLens headset, recently made a pledge that buyers of much lower-priced Windows Mixed Reality headsets would get 25 hours of free STEM curricula. The big loser in this battle?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Daniel Greenstein , who has overseen the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s work on postsecondary education since 2012, announced Monday that he would leave the foundation next month,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” From the Lenovo website : “Lenovo™ Introduces Lenovo Virtual Reality Classroom.”

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