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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets.

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Engageli nabs $33M more for its collaborative video-based teaching platform

TechCrunch

As schools move more widely into reopening their doors for in-person learning, many educational institutions have also learned a critical lesson in the last year. and a new approach to teaching by video remotely. ” Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M gallery ids="2150333,2150334,2150335,2150336,2150337"].

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Teaching with Tech: The Incredible—and Inevitable—Evolution of the Digital Classroom

Byte Technology

a single computer running basic DOS for an entire school was considered the very cutting edge of the tech-enhanced learning environment. Today 48 states support online learning programs, and 95 percent of institutions of higher learning offer online classes.

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Indian online teaching platform Teachmint raises $16.5 million

TechCrunch

The round was led by Learn Capital, the San Francisco Bay Area-headquartered venture capital firm that focuses on edtech firms and has backed some of the world’s most promising online learning startups, including Coursera, Udemy, Nerdy, Minerva and Brainly.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For those of us who also focused on training, instruction, and professional learning for nonprofits, the New Media Consortium , has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale for the past ten years.

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Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M and a new approach to teaching by video remotely

TechCrunch

And Farrell is a former executive from another pair of major online learning companies, Trilogy and 2U. But also, Avida believes that because higher ed not already has a big market for remote learning, it represents a more significant opportunity.

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UK’s Atom Learning picks up $25M from SoftBank for an AI-based online learning platform aimed at elementary school-aged students

TechCrunch

“If kids don’t learn those skills by the time they are 11, it’s hard to recover from that when you are older,” O’Keeffe said. The obvious place for Atom was to start was online learning aimed at students. month); and then two subsequent tiers (£49.99/ and £59.99/month)