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This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe. Here’s Our Best Attempt.

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Topics ranged from early childhood to lifelong learning. Learn Capital is closing on a seed investment vehicle dubbed “ LearnStart ,” which has already invested in a Finnish company, 3DBear. million seed round to build a learning management system modeled after WhatsApp and Slack. Going Global One the most prolific U.S.

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Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. ” “ University of Michigan adds an automated text-analysis tool to a growing program intended to give more students a chance to learn through writing,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ OpenStax Launches Learning Platform.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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