Recent deals include investments in Yup (formerly known as MathCrunch), and in CareDox, a digital health platform for K-12 schools.
School leaders spoke about the promise of personalized learning, pivotal moments, and the importance of students developing skills to make presentations.
From mobile computing devices to interactive flat-panel displays, spending on ed-tech hardware increased 7 percent in 2015, Futuresource Consulting found.
The Jefferson Education Accelerator, which seeks to pair education technology companies with university researchers, will receive help from the philanthropy for projects focused on urban schools.
There were 418 mergers and acquisitions in the education industry in 2015, up from 329 in 2014, a rise triggered in part by consolidation in K-12, according to investment bank Berkery Noyes.
Teenagers who took an online makeup course after failing Algebra I had lower scores and grades than peers enrolled in face-to-face classes, according to an analysis by the American Institutes of Research.
The Finnish personalized learning platform Claned platform has raised $4.6 Million. The Helsinki-based company says allows users to pick-and-choose education content, learning tools, and applications.
The 26-year-old Education Industry Association has stopped operations, and its 80 members are absorbed into the Software & Information Industry Association’s ed-tech network.
American adults do better on literacy than they do on numeracy and technology tasks, according to an analysis.
The Assessment for Learning Project has issued $2 million in grants meant to promote new models in formative assessment, competency and performance-based testing, and other areas.