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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. Online education services companies – or “ OPMs ” as many refer to them, have continued to play a major role in the scaling of online higher education, within, and now increasingly beyond the U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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As Stephen Downes comments , “I find it interesting that they refer throughout to ‘ openly licensed educational materials ’ rather than ‘open educational resources’ – I wonder what the reasoning was behind that.” Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain.

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