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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. This fund will be used to support investments between $1 million to $5 million at the Series A and B stages for up to 20 K-12 and higher-ed startups.

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Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund

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billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. Particularly disappointing to Greenfield are “adaptive learning” tools that aim to deliver customized content to learners based on data collected from their performance. Venture capital for U.S.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning,” Edsurge reported in June. In education, both algorithms and data are integral to the push for “personalization.”

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

LinkedIn, of course, had acquired online job training company Lynda.com last year for $1.5 We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. But all these startups are going to have to battle another technology giant in the hunt for job-hunters : Microsoft. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 .” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Several colleges that subscribe to the online education provider Lynda.com are seeing double-digit increases in subscription costs, leading many to wonder if its acquisition by LinkedIn (which in turn was acquired by Microsoft ) is behind the price hikes.” The company has raised $8.5 million total.