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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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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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‘Faculty Information System’ Developer, Interfolio Acquired for $110M+

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And the idea has caught the attention of investors: Insight Venture Partners is slated to acquire the DC company for more than $110 million, the Washington Business Journal reports. The second is a dashboard to track data and documents around the tenure process, such as submissions and external evaluations.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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Udemy : This video-based learning site has high-quality courses for just about anything students will need to know. Tips for Decoding Media Documents (by Project Look Sharp): Aimed at teachers, this two-page handout offers great teaching strategies for helping students effectively analyze printed media. Media Literacy! (by

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Hack Education Weekly News

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An ex-Corinthian student is filing a federal class-action lawsuit against the firms that now own the private loans, as well as a collection company seeking to recoup the debt from borrowers.” ” The company in question: Bridgepoint Education , which owns Ashford University and the University of the Rockies.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The New York Times : “DeVos Abandons Plan to Allow One Company to Service Federal Student Loans.” Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy looks at the acquisition of EDMC – the parent company of the Art Institutes chain – by The Dream Center Foundation , a network of Christian missionary centers.