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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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Since 2018, she has been a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the global education sector. Fifty years ago, American futurist and author Alvin Toffler predicted that “the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”

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

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With more than 4 billion users now connected to the internet, 50% of the global population (Forbes, December 2018), it is not surprising that the education sector has embraced devices and software to interact, engage, and enhance the learning environment for students. In the United States, Udemy and Udacity have both reached $1.0B

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Gale Receives Platinum and Gold in 2023 Modern Library Awards from LibraryWorks for the Second Consecutive

eSchool News

Gale’s 2023 MLA award wins were across its entire product portfolio of K-12, post-secondary and adult learning resources. MLA judge Gale Presents: Udemy (gold award) : Public libraries can connect patrons to nearly 20,000 on-demand video courses for upskilling or reskilling in business, technology, and personal development.

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Gale Receives Platinum and Gold in 2023 Modern Library Awards from LibraryWorks for the Second Consecutive

eSchool News

Gale’s 2023 MLA award wins were across its entire product portfolio of K-12, post-secondary and adult learning resources. MLA judge Gale Presents: Udemy (gold award) : Public libraries can connect patrons to nearly 20,000 on-demand video courses for upskilling or reskilling in business, technology, and personal development.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Schoold Rakes in New Funding; Quad-C Acquires Rainbow Early Education

Marketplace K-12

Additionally, two coding education companies raised money. Schoold Receives Additional Funding: Schoold , a college- and career-planning startup based in San Francisco, has raised additional investment capital from new investors include Learn Capital, Social Capital, University Ventures, and Professor Joe Grundfest of Stanford Law School.

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

Marketplace K-12

In addition, investment company Weld North Holdings acquired Performance Matters , a student assessment and data-analytics company that it will merge with K-12 ed-tech business Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We''ll be talking about Mozilla''s Open Badges project , the issues around recognizing skills and achievements that happen outside of traditional learning institutions, and the HASTAC Badges Competition: Badges For Lifelong Learning. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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