Monthly Digest: April’s top 20 ed-tech developments
Here are the top 20 developments in ed-tech for the month of April, 2012:
April 2nd, 2012:
2tor raises $26 million in round of funding
April 4th, 2012:
Tufts University Science Knowledgebase goes open source
April 5th, 2012:
Minerva Project aims to take elite education online
April 10th, 2012:
Common Sense Media releases 1st wave of “Best for Learning” reviews
Edudemic launches online marketplace
Intel adds “StudyBook” tablet to its learning series
April 11th, 2012:
Department of Justice goes after Apple, other publishers in antitrust suit
April 12th, 2012:
Barnes & Noble releases new Nook with GlowLight technology
Oxford, Vatican libraries partner up to make ancient texts available online
April 13th, 2012:
StraighterLine raises $10 million in financing
April 16th, 2012:
McGraw Hill announces ONboard, online preparation programs for AP courses
April 17th, 2012:
K-12 learning platform Schoology raises $6 million
First wave of $35 Raspberry Pi micro-computers shipped
April 18th, 2012:
State-of-the-art financial systems lab opens at The Stevens Institute of Technology
Free online course provider Coursera raises $16 million
Alt12 raises $1.26M in seed funding for parents social network
April 20th, 2012:
Evernote completes $100 million round of financing
April 23rd, 2012:
Adobe CS6 to include education pricing for new “Creative Cloud”
April 25th, 2012:
April 30th, 2012:
Microsoft to invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble Nook
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