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Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. In the past, publishers such as Pearson and McGraw-Hill were counted on to be the exit strategy. Source: EdSurge.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Education’s Proto-Platforms.
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Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Pearson, for example, was founded (albeit as a construction company) in 1844 and acquired along the long history various textbook publishing companies which have also been around since the turn of the twentieth century. MOOCs were going to change everything. Let’s be clear, Google Search is very much a “black box.”
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 20, 2011
Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+. Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students. In general, references management software is expensive.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Vive la MOOC révolution.
Educator Innovator
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
Late last spring my alarm rang early so I could join a Google Hangout with two eighth graders from Jack Zangerle’s 8th grade English class in New York’s Hudson Valley. Teachers opted instead to seek training on Google Docs in the classroom, or similarly practical concerns. What’s the point of having the equipment, then?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Pearson sold its US K-12 curriculum business for $250 million. Pearson said it would shift its strategy and make all its textbooks “ digital first ” (which you just know is going to cost students more). Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Google got into the anti-plagiarism business.
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