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Instructure Is Back on the Stock Market, But Not Much Change Expected For Canvas Users

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It’s a return of the INST ticker symbol for the company, which first went public in 2015 , but then was taken private last March when Instructure was purchased by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for nearly $2 billion. And Instructure’s latest prospectus doesn’t mention big plans to use data or algorithms, notes Hill.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. According to the Data Quality Campaign , “Student data privacy was a priority issue in state legislatures in 2016.”

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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. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. We want to be the Uber for Education,” Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun told the Financial Times in 2015.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” Education in the Courts.