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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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Shares did rise nearly 3 percent in early trading, giving the software provider a valuation of about $3.6 But by 2015, Pearson was looking to unload PowerSchool , which was bought by the private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $350 million. She called the pandemic a “seminal moment” for edtech.

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The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global

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Braced for the next wave of edtech? The most recent player to step into the edtech spotlight is India’s Byju’s. Byju’s growth demonstrates how the edtech market is truly becoming borderless,” says Isabelle Hau, a longtime global impact education funder who is working on a book on early childhood learning. “We It will be big.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. edtech companies in the first half of 2019. The high tally for venture funding this year is not unique to the edtech industry.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 35 Edition)

Doug Levin

I also held – and continue to hold – views about issues such as evidence, privacy, security, and open licensing (open educational resources and open source software) that are not always in sync with school vendors and other private interests. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 35 Edition).

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Commit to Long-term Sustainability.

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Utah’s Edtech Unicorn, Pluralsight Files for Initial Public Offering

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Founded in 2004, Pluralsight currently offers more than 6,000 online courses on a variety of technical, business and design skills—from architecture to manufacturing, game development and software engineering. edtech industry since Instructure, another Utah-based company, went public in November 2015.

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Bigger Deals, Bigger Bets: EdTech Venture Funding Trends Continue in 2018

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With more than 4 billion users now connected to the internet, 50% of the global population (Forbes, December 2018), it is not surprising that the education sector has embraced devices and software to interact, engage, and enhance the learning environment for students. EdTech is not unique in this trend of bigger, but less frequent, deals.

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