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SplashLearn Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding Round From Owl Ventures & Accel

eSchool News

The Silicon Valley-based firm invests in the world’s leading education technology companies across the education spectrum encompassing PreK-12, higher education and future of work (career mobility/ professional learning).

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

Edsurge

From this second fund New Markets has already made several investments: Practice (formerly ApprenNet), a mobile video-based learning tool; Credly , a digital credentialing platform; and Noodle Partners. A fourth deal is expected to close sometime this month.

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Play Library Santa: Sharing gifts of digital media

NeverEndingSearch

Ask your guests to take out their library cards and their mobile devices, and help them get started with accounts to any of the following available free-to-the-public gifts: RBDigital , from Recorded Books, offers instant, full-color, interactive digital magazines without any holds, checkout periods or other such limits. Play library Santa.

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Down with OTT? 3 ways this technology is a new must for education

eSchool News

Lynda.com, a product of LinkedIn for learning professional skills, is an example of an educational OTT tech platform—both for educator PD and student online learning. It has a monthly subscription fee and can be accessed via a mobile app or website address.

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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

Edsurge

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. Pluralsight—an online IT training provider—has scaled to become an edtech “unicorn,” with a valuation over $1 billion.

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Resources for learning at home while we’re keeping each other safe

NeverEndingSearch

When you are Facetiming or Skyping or Zooming with friends and family or communicating with your own students, let’s encourage folks to take out their library cards, find those barcodes and browse their public library’s digital assets to discover rich content to enjoy on their desktops, mobile devices or as apps on their televisions.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Crescerance and MAD-Learn (for Mobile App Development). Crescerance and MAD-Learn are my tools for mobile app development. The kids are programming apps and using the MAD (mobile app development) Learn platform. MAD stands for “Mobile App Development.” They sync it with their mobile devices.

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