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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. He expects to see media companies play a bigger role in snapping up promising edtech 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. There are school finance tools for administrators ( Allovue ) alongside educational hip hop music videos ( Flocabulary ). From a district’s perspective, you don’t want to replace a LMS with 60 different tools,” he adds.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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More often than not, these platforms also come with a series of tools that enable their users to build their own products, services, and marketplaces. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.” ” 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

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Hack Education Weekly News

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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.” Noodle Markets has raised $3 million.