Instructure is acquiring a company known for helping school districts analyze their usage of ed-tech products.
This is the Top Hat’s fifth acquisition and its first outside of publishing.
Promethean’s acquisition is part of a plan to provide rapid technology innovation to create new solutions that address teaching, learning, and collaboration needs.
Carnegie Learning is acquiring a virtual curriculum founded by Hollywood director James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron.
Classera, which offers a digital learning platform to students in the Middle East and Africa, said the funding is its first since being founded in 2011.
The acquisition of BrainPOP is part of Kirkbi’s goal to become a “global force for learning through play, be it physically or digitally,” the company says.
In a pair of deals in the digital communications space, Edlio acquired SchoolInfo, while Finalsite bought the Blackboard K-12 Community Engagement division from Anthology.
In announcing the deal, Scholastic said the acquisition will “significantly advance” the development of its literacy platform
In a pair of deals affecting some of the biggest players in the K-12 marketplace, Illuminate Education was acquired by Renaissance, and Frontline Education was bought by Roper Technologies for $3.75 billion.
Users will have to manually export files before their accounts close at the end of September.