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GlobalScholar was an operating unit of Scantron based in Bellevue, Washington that developed, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to education. They include products such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution, Pinnacle Suite, supports all aspects of managing education at K-12 schools, including a gradebook, learning management system (LMS), and teacher development, analytics and online learning. GlobalScholar.com was the company's on-demand collaboration platform for tutors, parents, and students. Parents and students could find pre-screened tutors on a variety of subjects and school levels, and pay for one-time homework help or engage in ongoing tutoring sessions. The sessions occurred on GlobalScholar’s website, which provides an online whiteboard, audio/video IM, archiving, and billing.〔(GlobalScholar Raises $27 Million B Round To Tackle Online Education ) By Erick Schonfeld in ''TechChrunch''〕 ==History== GlobalScholar, formally known as InfiLearn, was founded in December 2006 by Kal Raman, a former drugstore.com chief executive and Amazon.com senior vice president.〔(The New Awakening In Modern India: Interview With Kal Raman ) By Dhanyasree M in ''OneIndia.''〕 The company has grown to about 250 people in March 2008, roughly half in the US (Bellevue, WA and Greeley, CO) and the rest in Chennai, India.〔("GlobalScholar lands $27 million in VC plus new purchase" ) ''Seattle Times''〕〔(GlobalScholar.com raises $27 m ) By K. T. Jagannathan in ''The Hindu''〕 In January 2008, GlobalScholar launched two new services, SchoolFinder and CollegeFinder; two new websites dedicated to parents and students to discover and learn more about their current and future schools. GlobalScholar.com acquired Central Data Corporation's〔() Central Data Corporation's〕 adaptable learning and educational scaffold assets along with the Global Scholar name in 2007, using these as the baseline for the initial InfilLearn product. GlobalScholar.com made a strategic decision on January 31, 2008, to acquire Excelsior Software to expand the solutions it offers school districts and in order to offer Excelsior’s many loyal customers an even broader collection of educational services, leveraging the patented scaffolding structures developed by Central Data Corporation. In October 2013 Scantron formally retired the GlobalScholar brand and stopped development and support on several products. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GlobalScholar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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