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EDUKWEST #102 with Carlos Souza of Veduca
As many of you will know, I have extensively written, interviewed and presented on innovation in Higher Education in general and MOOCs in particular. Over the past months what I’ve become particularly...
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HEDLINE: Brazilian Online Classroom Descomplica raises $5 million
Abstract Descomplica, a startup aiming to become the online classroom of Brazil, raised a $5 million Series B led by Social+Capital with participation of existing investors Valar Ventures, Valor...
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HEDLINE: Bertelsmann launches €30 million BR Education Ventures Fund
Bertelsmann, an international media company based in Germany, announced that it will raise a €30 million ($43 million) education technology fund in partnership with Brazilian investment company Bozano...
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Sunday Review for the Week of March 17th 2014
In this week’s Sunday Review we learn about the potential reasons why Coursera is allowed to give access to some of its courses to Iranian students, why VCs tend to get edtech wrong, who owns the...
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Sunday Review for the Week of March 24th 2014
In this week’s Sunday Review we learn about closer ties between China and Saudi Arabia, that schools’ faith in tech is a cancer and what happened to Inkling. We have infographics about the global...
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HEDLINE: Brazilian Education Company Grupo Positivo Partners with Blackboard
Blackboard and the Brazilian education company Grupo Positivo announced a strategic partnership. Under the partnership Blackboard’s technology will be implemented in the offers of the different...
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Google 2013 Founders’ Letter: Risk Averse Education and Remote Classrooms
In his 2013 founders’ letter, Google’s co-founder and CEO Larry Page takes a look at the current state of the US school system and states that it isn’t capable of encouraging the next generation of...
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With Coursera entering Brazil LatAm becomes the next MOOC Battle Ground
Coursera announced its entrance into the Brazilian / Portuguese MOOC market through partnerships with the University of São Paulo (USP), the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), the Lemann...
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Startup Profile: Etutores
Thanks to increased access to the Internet and faster connections, Latin America has become one of the growing markets for online based education services. Etutores is an online learning platform that...
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