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K-12 Dealmaking: Udemy, Tynker Raise Funds; PeopleAdmin Acquires TeacherMatch

Marketplace K-12

A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week. Udemy Raises $60 Million: Udemy , a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, received a $60 million strategic investment from Internet and entertainment group Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division.

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?Filling the Other Skills Gap

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businesses reported difficulty finding appropriately trained workers, up from 32 percent reported in 2015. The likes of Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, MasterClass, Lynda, and Pluralsight have together raised more than $1 billion and represent combined enterprise value of more than $5 billion. And this is just online.

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The Business of Ed-Tech: 2017 So Far

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And indeed, according to my calculations too, the amount of money invested in education technology companies is up from this time last year and up from this time in 2015 as well. And 2015 was a record-setting year for ed-tech investment.). Udemy (skills training marketplace) – $173 million.

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This Observation Tool Is Helping Teachers Improve Their Interactions with Children

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Observations are done using a tool called the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), which Pianta helped create in 2008. She'll look up YouTube videos and Udemy online courses to learn more about the areas she needs to work on. percent in 2015-16. Sometimes she asked a question, but then answered it herself.

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Developing and Delivering Effective Professional Development for Educators

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For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles. Some of these self-paced paced content providers for educators are: Udemy , Future Learn , edX , Coursera , iTunes U , and Youtube for teachers 9. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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Hack Education Weekly News

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million from a business that pulled in almost $1 billion in revenue in 2015 – with no fines, penalties, or admission of wrongdoing. Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Which one is true? It all depends on who you ask.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Word about the Vector Assessment of Readiness for College, or Vector A.R.C., Udemy has raised another $60 million , this time from the South African media group Naspers (which just last month invested $15 million in the homework help site Brainly). ” (Psst. Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).