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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

When New Markets Venture Partners first began fundraising for its second education technology investment fund, Barack Obama was in office, Brexit for up for debate and iPhones still had headphone jacks. It also gives the foundation a lens into the challenging realities of the edtech startup ecosystem.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Reasoning Mind , a Houston-based nonprofit, was acquired by Imagine Learning. Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. Imagine previously acquired Think Through Math, another digital math product, in 2016.)

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MARCH 1, 2017

But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal? Speakers from University of Virginia, University of Maryland, MIT and University of Pennsylvania will share what works, what doesn’t and how they have built structures to support technology initiatives on their campuses.

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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. Technology is changing the way almost all industries work beyond recognition. Technology itself is changing rapidly, and so too are the accompanying necessary skills.

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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

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. That probably means people are coming after you, right? 3U, 4U, 5U, 6U.

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