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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

LEAD | January 14, 2022

LEAD, India's largest School EdTech player, has raised US $100 million at a valuation of $1.1 billion to continue its mission of transforming schools in India. This funding creates history on several fronts: Makes LEAD the first School EdTech player to enter the Unicorn club Makes LEAD the first EdTech Unicorn of 2022 The Series E funding round was led by WestBridge Capital and GSV Ventures, making this one of their largest E...

ONLINE EDUCATION

prnewswire | October 29, 2020

Online learning pioneers, Esme Learning Solutions, has today launched a new, free online course designed to help education professionals deliver effective, more engaging online teaching. This course is designed for instructors and professors in primary through higher education, or those in corporate learning who are tasked with teaching their courses in a live, virtual environment. The new "Driving Engagement in Virtual Courses" offers educators a peek behind the curtain...

edsurge | February 06, 2020

The U.S. Department of Education hopes that the blockchain technology transforming the finance and logistics industries could play a role in making education records more portable and transparent. The federal agency has provided $2 million to the American Council on Education to organize a new Education Blockchain Initiative, the council announced Thursday. The endeavor will support research about blockchain systems and fund a competition to select experiments testing ways to apply the technolog...

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

iDatafy | March 01, 2022

iDatafy, an industry-leader in education technology, and the National Student Clearinghouse announced a partnership today that will make it easy for learners throughout the nation to create Comprehensive Learner Records on the SmartResume platform, while also connecting employers with diverse job talent in a new way. Through this partnership, learners using the Clearinghouse’s Myhub digital wallet will be able to connect their credentials to iDatafy’s SmartResume, IMS ...