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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say.

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As Number of Edtech Providers Grow, Some Say Student Privacy Needs a Reset

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For example: A review of how companies handle student data by Internet Safety Labs, a nonprofit that tests software products, showed that 96 percent of apps used and recommended by U.S. educational institutions shared that data with third parties. Not long ago, schools kept all their student data on servers at schools.

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As Number of Edtech Providers Grow, Some Say Student Privacy Needs a Reset

Edsurge

For example: A review of how companies handle student data by Internet Safety Labs, a nonprofit that tests software products, showed that 96 percent of apps used and recommended by U.S. educational institutions shared that data with third parties. Not long ago, schools kept all their student data on servers at schools.

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Pearson’s Connections Academy Launches New College and Career Prep Initiative

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The initiatives feature partnerships with Coursera , the global online learning platform, Acadeum , the largest course sharing network in higher education, e-Dynamic Learning , a provider of Career Technical Education for middle and high school students, and Credly , a global leader in digital credentialing. That’s why our c.20,000

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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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Shares did rise nearly 3 percent in early trading, giving the software provider a valuation of about $3.6 One way the company hopes to do that, she said, is through greater use of data, or what she called “data-driven infrastructure.” PowerSchool is one of a string of edtech IPOs this year.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

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She has been instrumental in the design of software using artificial intelligence for data-driven decisions in all content areas and the suite of services to facilitate the implementation of those products. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates.

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U. of Michigan Hints at Growth Plans for Office of Academic Innovation

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Few other university “innovation” teams match the size of that at Michigan, says Michael Feldstein, partner at MindWires Consulting: “Obviously it signals a lot of ambition and maybe more of an emphasis on scale and on software development than you typically see at other institutions using that label.”

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