Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
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. It also offers a rostering solution that expedites how student and educator accounts for third-party edtech applications are created and managed.
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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.
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. Today the social media site for professionals. billion , that’s because it is.
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 3, 2016
As I was reading The Teacher’s Guide to Tech last week, I realized that it had been a while since I’d shared my own favorite edtech tools. I just enter the data once. I went through an incredible course on Lynda.com in January to help me use it better each day. Thanks Jennifer! . They are part of my trusty toolkit.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Carrion (28) founded an organization that pairs students, including those from underserved backgrounds, with nearby peer mentors via their smartphones, and collects data on how students are using the service to share with schools. Michael Benko (28) and E.J.
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.
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