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US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online

Edsurge

“With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. In the first half of 2020, U.S.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future.

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

EdNews Daily

The key difference in the past few years, however, has been larger funding rounds and valuations across a fewer number of EdTech companies. This distorts the total private placement numbers we see since the well-funded companies completing the larger private placements pre-IPO comprise a large portion of the overall deal volume.

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Ka’Ching! 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion

Edsurge

edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 In this annual analysis, EdSurge counts all investments in technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve learning outcomes for all learners, regardless of age.

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?Filling the Other Skills Gap

Edsurge

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2017; Tyton Partners analysis.)

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ” he asks. can make political donations.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

Neo LMS

Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). School administrators can also use these insights, which will come in straightforward reports or graphs, to improve strategic planning, evaluation, or feedback analysis.

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