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Funding School social network Edmodo announced this week that it has raised $25 million in its Series C, bringing the total raised for the startup to $47.5 million. My thoughts here. littleBits, an open source hardware startup with electronics modules that snap together with magnets (and one of the startups I chose as...

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The social network for schools Edmodo announced today that it’s raised $25 million in its Series C round of funding (that is, its third round of venture capital investment). This round was lead by a new investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners, Benchmark Capital,...

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(Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed) The online education platform Coursera announced today that 12 more universities had signed on as partners, joining the 4 that were part of the startup’s launch in April. Joining the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, University of Michigan and Stanford are Georgia Tech, Duke University, University...

Every week, Steve Hargadon and I sit down (virtually) to talk about the latest ed-tech news. I always find our conversation to be one of the most thought-provoking exchanges I have all week. Unfortunately, this week's recording was plagued with some technical difficulties.  (I blame Skype. And probably user error....

A GitHub for Education, Revisited I’ve written several times in the past about the potential for a “GitHub for education” – that is, a version of the popular social coding network GitHub where the “code” that’s shared is openly-licensed educational content. That could include OER in any digital format –...

Abuse and Negligence at Penn State Former FBI director Louis Freeh released the results of his 3-month investigation into the child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University. Freeh’s investigation confirms what many people already suspected: that the university at its highest level chose to protect the football team over...

Khan Academy proudly states on its website “168,382,612 lessons delivered,” something that always reminds me of the slogan that used to accompany McDonalds’ golden arches: “over 200 billion served.” (I hope) We know better than to equate the billions of Big Macs sold with billions of healthy bodies or a...