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Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund

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billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. Particularly disappointing to Greenfield are “adaptive learning” tools that aim to deliver customized content to learners based on data collected from their performance. Venture capital for U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. ” Via NSBA’s Legal Clips blog : “ Satanic Temple withdraws request to start after school club at Washington state elementary school.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” ” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 ” There’s a data dashboard, so you know it simply has to be useful. ” Shrug.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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You can look to Lynda.com, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 “ There’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses ” – Rebekah Neumann, co-founder, WeWork. Corporate learning – that’s where people hope the money is.