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K-12 Dealmaking: Knewton Raises $52M; Imagine K12 Merges with Y Combinator

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Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator: The Redwood City, Calif.-based

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. Big Funding Rounds to Chinese Edtech Companies, 2016-Present. million (Seed) 2014 WI Harper Group GotIt! $9

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Newkirk believes that his model will work for other STEM fields, including chemistry and physics. That pushback often comes from professors who are convinced that what they are doing in the classroom is working, even when they are presented with evidence to the contrary.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The call for presentations has been extended until October 31, and the event is highly inclusive so that we have real global participation. Last year we had presentations from 62 countries. students to address the most pressing national and global challenges."

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The call for presentations has been extended until October 31 , so get your proposals in! The presentation software SlideRocket announced SlideRocket EDU this week, making its tools available to students and teachers via the Google Apps Marketplace. of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? million per month.

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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

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It then presents you with a unique web address you can share with students. Lue will present the project next week at the OpenEdX conference in San Diego. It’s a little hard to tell how Knewton works because it is so proprietary,” says Lue. And the platform lets you add your own videos or texts as well.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.” Via Chalkbeat : “40 cities in 10 years: Leaked presentation offers more details on new group’s goals to spread charter (and charter-like) schools.” ” Gotta keep hyping that VR thing.