Marlowe buys EssentialSkillz for £25m

EssentialSkillz has been bought for £25 million.

Marlowe, a London-listed security systems services company, is proposing a share placing to raise £50 million to fund the deal and additional bolt-on acquisitions.

Platinum Equity Completes Acquisition Of McGraw Hill For $4.5 Billion

Investment firm, Platinum Equity have announced the acquisition of McGraw Hill for a purchase price of approximately $4.5 billion.

McGraw Hill generates more than 60% of its revenue from digital products and services, and more than 80% in its Higher Education business.

Engaging Students by Design

Student engagement "by design" must not happen in isolation but, rather, in the larger context of digital transformation (Dx).

New national centre will ‘unleash the power of AI’ in education

Jisc have launched a national centre for artificial intelligence (AI) in tertiary education, seeking to embed immersive technologies in university and college education.

LTG Buys JCA Solutions for $1m

 

LTG acquired JCA Solutions ('JCA') on 3rd November 2020 for $1.0 million. 

LTG Buys eThink Education for $20m

Learning Technologies Group has acquired eThink Education LLC ('eThink'), a provider of Moodle-based learning management systems (LMS), for an initial cash consideration of $20.0 million (c.£14.8 million).

Learning Analytics beyond the LMS: Enabling Connected Learning via Open Source Analytics in ‘the wild’

Over the past decade we have witnessed a proliferation of new technologies involving an increasingly sophisticated use of data.