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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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The technologies built by these companies span a wide gamut of buzzwords (adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, gamification) but will be integrated with TAL’s online offerings. EduLab , a subsidiary of JIEM, a Japanese research and assessment provider. (It TAL has already directly funded a handful of U.S. edtech startups.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. The company has raised some $77.5 It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Chatbot Instructors.

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