Collaborate Disseminate
Apps custom-designed for schools are sending staggering amounts of data to Facebook and Google, researchers found.
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Finding the right learning platform can be difficult, especially as companies look to upskill and reskill their talent to meet demand. Continue reading Workera.ai, a precision upskilling platform, taps $16M to close enterprise skills gap
A medida que continúa la pandemia de COVID-19, muchas instituciones educativas se han visto obligadas a cambiar sus clases presenciales a clases virtuales. Varias plataformas de EdTech también han lanzado clases gratuitas que han incitado a los estudi… Continue reading 5 consejos para evitar los ciberataques en plataformas de EdTech
The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. Of course, the term encapsulates more than just Zoom, it’s a nod to how schools had to rapidly adopt enterprise video conferencing software to keep school in session in the […] Continue reading Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech
On Monday, Pluralsight, a Utah-based startup that sells software development courses to enterprises, announced that it has been acquired by Vista for $3.5 billion. The deal, yet to close, is one of the largest enterprise buys of the year: Vista is getting an online training company that helps retrain techies with in-demand skills through online […] Continue reading Vista’s $3.5B purchase of Pluralsight signals a maturing edtech market
The hectic M&A cycle we have seen throughout 2020 continued this weekend when Vista Equity Partners announced it was acquiring Pluralsight for $3.5 billion. That comes out to $20.26 per share. The company stock closed on Friday at $18.50 per share on a market cap of over $2.7 billion. With Pluralsight, Vista gets an online […] Continue reading Vista acquires IT education platform Pluralsight for $3.5B
Attackers are targeting students and faculty alike with malware, phishing, DDoS, Zoom bombs and more, the FBI and CISA said. Continue reading Feds: K-12 Cyberattacks Dramatically on the Rise
Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA’s child privacy laws. Continue reading Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks
As more universities turn to offering online degrees to expand their student bodies by way of cyberspace, one of the pioneers in enabling that trend has made an acquisition to expand into new territory around skills training and continuing education. 2U, which helps build online degree programs for a number of top universities, is paying $750 […] Continue reading Online university degree provider 2U acquires Trilogy for $750M to expand into tech bootcamps and training
The world is full of educational robots for STEAM education, but we haven’t seen one as small or as cute as the Skoobot, an entry in this year’s Hackaday Prize. It’s barely bigger than an inch cubed, but it’s still packed with motors, a battery, sensors, and a microcontroller powerful enough to become a pocket-sized sumo robot.
The hardware inside each Skoobot is small, but powerful. The main microcontroller is a Nordic nRF52832, giving this robot an ARM Cortex-M4F brain and Bluetooth. The sensors include a VL6180X time of flight sensor that has a range of about 100mm. Skoobot also …read more
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