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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

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Source: CB Insights This pattern is likely to continue into 2019. According to Jason Palmer, general manager at New Markets Venture Partners: “2019 will be an important year of rebalancing in the edtech market. 2019 will be an important year of rebalancing in the edtech market. Pitchbook tallied $130.9 As the U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The New York Times notes it’s not just rural students who struggle with broadband access : “Why San Jose Kids Do Homework in Parking Lots.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Correction: This is the Class of 2019.). More robot news up in the MOOC section above.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.”

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Education's Online Futures

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Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Higher education and library associations called on the Federal Communications Commission Thursday to uphold Obama-era rules requiring broadband providers to treat all traffic on the internet equally,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Sadly, I think “ net neutrality ” under Trump is toast.).