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One Animation’s Oddbods Partners With Splashlearn’s Digital Learning Program – Reaching Over 40m Kids In The USA

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The massively popular digital learning program for reading and math, SplashLearn has benefited over 40 million children internationally. The company is also home to the creator and serves as the production studio behind the hit Netflix series Sharkdog. After all, there’s a little odd in everyone! ABOUT ONE ANIMATION.

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SplashLearn Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding Round From Owl Ventures & Accel

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SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company began 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. San Francisco based Owl Ventures is the largest edtech sector-focused venture capital firm in the world. In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program.

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Can This Be the K-12 Edtech Marketplace That Finally Succeeds?

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Now First Book wants to apply this model—where teachers drive demand for educational materials and shape the market—to the market for digital learning products. To do that, it is partnering with Games and Learning , a for-profit company, to build a new marketplace for online educational materials, particularly games.

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Why It's Important to Teach Your Students Financial Literacy—and Three Ways to Do It

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we saw an opportunity to use video, animation, 3D gaming and avatars to bring financial concepts to life for the next generation. In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI.

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Kahoot Acquires Clever for $500M, Hoping to Expand Its Presence in the U.S.

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The publicly traded, game-based learning company announced Thursday that it was acquiring Clever, a digital learning platform used widely among K-12 schools in the U.S. The Oslo-based company has a large global presence already, with 1.6 Kahoot, it seems, is just heating up. But for Clever?

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

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As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company.

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” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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