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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 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.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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PowerSchool acquired the K-12 LMS Schoology. ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. Mind reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton was acquired by Wiley for $17 million — LOL — having raised over $180 million. This year, Instructure also acquired Portfolium and MasteryConnect ). Udacity got a new CEO.