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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The company’s latest deal involves something a little bit more invisible and behind the scenes, but what it calls “one of the most powerful tools we have in modern education.” That tool is data, and it marks the focus of Microsoft’s first edtech acquisition of 2019: DataSense , a data management platform developed by Brightbytes.
Edsurge
JANUARY 10, 2017
billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. The new product, LinkedIn Learning , includes all 5,000 courses published on Lynda.com, and any new courses created will be published on both platforms. The company, which is in the midst of being. acquired by Microsoft for $26.2
Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2017
A handful of other universities (and even preschools ) now accept Bitcoin for tuition, but that’s hardly the extent of how blockchains and tokens are weaving their way into education: Educators and edtech entrepreneurs are now testing out everything from issuing degrees on blockchains to paying people in cryptocurrency for their teaching.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Most of the 38 honorees (cofounders are grouped together) are listed as entrepreneurs, though their companies—and backgrounds—are rather diverse. Dias helps direct the Thiel Fellowship , the brainchild of billionaire Peter Thiel, which gives $100,000 grants to students that drop out of college and start their own companies.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 14, 2016
” The answer, in part, is in this Buzzfeed article by Molly Hensley-Clancy : “ Native American Colleges Have Abandoned The Student Loan System.” Some say… “What to Ask When Choosing Tech for Schools” – a new Lynda.com course offered by Edsurge (which is funded in part by Lynda.com’s founder.
Hack Education
APRIL 20, 2018
” Via EdScoop : “Edtech and industry leaders say they’re stuck if they can’t scale.” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ ISTE Unveils Plans to Match Ed-Tech Companies With Educators for Feedback on Apps.” The company, formerly known as PLATO Learning, is owned by Thomas Bravo.
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