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Crises and Capital: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2020

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US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online. Former Blackboard CEO Raises $16M to Bring LMS Features to Zoom Classrooms. to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online. Udemy Got $50M. Entangled No More: Guild Education Buys Edtech Venture Studio. Duolingo Just Raised $35M.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

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Disclosed angel investors include executives from Apple, Dropbox, Blackboard, and Udemy, according to various news reports.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6 Udemy (skills training): $173 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system): $172.9 D2L (learning management system): $165 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” The Ed-Fi Alliance and IMS Global Learning Consortium have announced their plans to develop “a single, unified approach for rostering across the most adopted K–12 data standards and have now further solidified their joint support for IMS OneRoster™ as the cross-industry rostering API.” ” Hooray.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Try learning styles, maybe. “ What We Learned From Talking with 100 MOOC Students ” by Justin Reich (and George Veletsianos and Laura Pasquini). Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain. One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard.

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