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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example. Two high-profile coding bootcamps, The Iron Yard and Dev Bootcamp, closed their doors.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge. .” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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PowerSchool acquired the K-12 LMS Schoology. Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. This year, Instructure also acquired Portfolium and MasteryConnect ). Something about "learning engineers". 2U did not have such a great year.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill on “ Schoology , NEO, Claroline, Chamilo: The beginning of the LMS long tail.” Procare Software has raised an undisclosed amount of money from Warburg Pincus. ” More via Inside Higher Ed.

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