‘Online course platform Thinkific raises $22M’

[Techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/29/thinkific-funding/?guccounter=1): > It’s been a big year for online learning companies — and it sounds like [Thinkific](http://www.thinkific.com/) is no exception. The Vancouver-based startup is announcing that it has...

Proposal: Align Reward Structure with Corporate and Faculty Greed

From an NSF-funded, cross-university campaign to [oil the gears of faculty profiteering](https://ptie.org/ptie-recommendations/): > In order to gain broad support for the recognition of [Innovation & Entrepreneurship] within [Promotion and Tenure] guidelines and...

Happy 5th Birthday to OLH

From the [Open Library of Humanities blog](https://www.openlibhums.org/news/391/): > The Open Library of Humanities today celebrates its 5th anniversary since we [launched our platform](https://www.openlibhums.org/news/146/) on 28th September 2015 with only 7 journals...

The Ed Tech Gold Rush Continues

"Innovators," [the *Inside Higher Ed* headline has it](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/29/companies-and-instructors-build-technology-take-remote-instruction-video-tools-next), "see Zoom University 2.0." By "innovation," though, *Inside Higher Ed* seems to...

Here Comes the Post-COVID Ed Tech VC Rush

Techcrunch [on a new VC-backed startup, ClassEDU](https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/23/class-for-zoom-earliest-investors-are-betting-millions/), and its first product, Class for Zoom: > Today, Class for Zoom announced that it has raised a $16 million seed round,...