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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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Crises and Capital: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2020

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It may not be the only publicly traded edtech company to be taken private. 4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider. The pandemic also disrupted the normal sales cycles for education companies, and many turned to government support to stay afloat. Udemy Got $50M.

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

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Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. A few companies are heading that way. I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

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Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). LMS-related features. The ILP is the combination of an LMS and an LXP. Read more: 5 Must-have LMS reports for schools.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Ethics and Legalities The New York Times continues its investigation of education giant Pearson and ethics concerns surrounding lavish trips that the company''s foundation has sponsored for state education officials. Valve , the company behind the video game hit Portal, is working on an educational game.

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The Business of Education Technology

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Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”

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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.