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Mark Cuban, ECMC Lead $1.8M Round for Cluster to Develop Industrial Tech Talent

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Other investors include education technology executives, like Penn Foster CEO Frank Britt and Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, along with Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Flatiron Health CEO, Nat Turner. -based startup has raised $1.9 million in a seed round led by Mark Cuban and ECMC Group, an education nonprofit.

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The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print

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Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. In an effort to solve the never-ending debate over whether education technology “works,” EdSurge is creating “Surgecoin,” the first cryptocurrency tied to product efficacy. TREMENDOUS DEAL!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Campus Technology : “ University of Washington Continuum College Launches Coding Boot Camp.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Campus Technology : “ Carnegie Mellon to Offer Undergrad AI Degrees.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3 I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Campus Technology : “ ACE and Credly Building Transcript for Digital Credentials.” “ Ethereum ’s smart contracts are full of holes,” says The MIT Technology Review. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” That’s the Indiana Agriculture and Technology School , which Chalkbeat investigated earlier this year. ” Yet another story promoting “student success technology” at Georgia State University. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

I love this headline from Campus Technology , which echoes the wise words of Bill and Ted from their excellent adventure: “ Ed Tech Changes … and Stays the Same.” ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Very thorough research, gj.