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APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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MAY 16, 2018

The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. Source: New Markets Education Partners.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Chistopher Edmin (Associate Professor at Teachers College Columbia University) uses history, practice and theory to explore education’s most pressing issues: a lack of diversity among teachers, challenges faced by educators of color, and absence of student voice in the learning design process. to 11:00 p.m. EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

This piece was written for The White House Symposium on the Future of Education R&D and Digital Learning, which took place on Oct. This means we need to think about learning engineering thinking—practical use of science at scale—and we’ll need more learning engineers who are prepared to help us.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

One of these deals made for splashy headlines: Dreambox Learning’s $130 million investment from The Rise Fund. Reasoning Mind , a Houston-based nonprofit, was acquired by Imagine Learning. Imagine previously acquired Think Through Math, another digital math product, in 2016.)

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When I first entered the virtual university a couple of decades ago as dean of online learning at Stevens Institute of Technology, I imagined, apart from instruction, that online and on campus in most respects would be pretty much the same. Surprisingly, just over twenty years later, things didn’t turn out that way in practice.

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JULY 27, 2017

And we learned from those mistakes over the years. Even the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue University represents a different competitive approach. I think it says a lot about the state of online education that a broad-based, well-respected institution like Purdue would embrace digital learning that way. Absolutely!

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