Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Edtech startup incubators? Kurshan, a Senior Fellow and Innovation Advisor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, has spent decades building edtech enterprises—both for-profit and nonprofit ones. I think this reflects an evolution of the edtech entrepreneurial ecosystem.” That’s so 2010.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Founded in 2011, the company is named after its founder Byju Ravvendran, who previously worked as a private tutor. edtech company is Udemy, an online course marketplace that reached a $2 billion valuation after raising $50 million from Japanese publisher Benesse in February. The highest-valued private U.S.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

He rejoined in 2011 and became its full-time CEO. TPG, the private equity firm behind the deal, is an investor in other edtech companies through its social-impact arm, The Rise Fund. By going public through a SPAC, Nerdy will be following a couple of other edtech companies that have gone down this route. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 5, 2011

You may remember, last week I did my nominations for the 2011 Edublog Awards. I am humbled that I made the short list for Best Twitter of The Year (an award I won in 2009) and this blog is also on the short list for Best Edtech/Resource Sharing Blog. This is an annual event highlighting the best in the Edublogosphere and Twitterverse.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Money has flowed into the edtech sector over the last twelve months. Unlike other edtech startups seemingly on the fast track to big checks, Codecademy has been in the business for over a decade. The deal with Owl Ventures, one of the largest edtech-focused venture funds , appears to tick all of these boxes.

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100mentors

AUGUST 16, 2018

Educating a new generation of citizens of the world means rethinking the process of value, attitude, and behavioral acquisition (Wells, 2011), and this is no small feat. The right edtech tool should be streamlining your goals, not making it more difficult to meet them with additional effort invested. Limited Class Time?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2019

So how did a San Francisco Bay Area high school sophomore create one of the most popular edtech products of all time? Andrew Sutherland (circa 2011), Quizlet founder and chief technology officer. Seasoned entrepreneurs fail all the time. Ninety percent of startups fail, so the mantra goes.)

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

based edtech startups in 2017 saw a resurgence of investment capital. edtech investments in 2011. Yet at 126 deals, the number of fundraises in 2017 is also at its lowest since 2011. edtech companies. edtech startups hit almost $1.7 For edtech startups, seed money hasn’t disappeared; it’s just harder to get.

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Georgia Test Prep

AUGUST 10, 2020

There is even a term known as “90-10 gap” – so called because it compares students in the 90th and 10th percentiles of family wealth – and it equals about a 4-year difference in learning (Reardon, 2011). This post is going to look at exactly how Edtech can play a significant role in closing the achievement gap in America.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2024

That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. He’s a longtime edtech consultant and blogger, and in the past he wasn’t shy about calling out what he saw as excessive hype by companies selling edtech tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Based Education Technology Companies (2011-2016). Overall, revenues in the edtech industry have increased, driven by a demand for more blended learning options, greater use of technology in education and a growing middle class overseas. (The previous year, 2015, set a record for education technology investments with over $3.1

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). Now “Sand Hill is waiting to see the outcome of some of their previous edtech investments,” says Shauntel Poulson, a general partner at Reach Capital.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2020

Founded in 2011, CampusLogic initially focused on digitizing paper forms and other manual processes involved in student financial-aid applications. The company has since added more services to support the vision of its founder and CEO, Gregg Scoresby, to become a full-fledged “student financial success company.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

That was early in the days of low-cost cloud computing enabling a multitude of new edtech startups, really fast internet beginning its spread to schools, and Chromebooks starting their climb to ascendance in U.S. But it’s grown from its birth in 2011, and gotten a little, well, more festive, as befits its family ties.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2016

Hundreds of other Nordic edtech entrepreneurs are also hard at work, according to Eilif Trondsen. The Nordic Edtech Network , a project that aims to connect and support the region’s edtech entrepreneurs. Since 2011, he has overseen the Entrepreneurship and Learning group at. To track of these efforts, he is spearheading.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Test scores surged higher than the national average at Maine Township High School District 207 near Chicago after the school’s technology director migrated students and faculty to Chromebooks in 2011.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

There are so many players out there—and a few emerging winners” in edtech, says Niesner, 40. “We Verbling was founded in 2011 by two Swedes who met while studying at Stanford University and graduated from startup accelerator Y Combinator that year. We are one of them.”

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition). Sign-up to receive "A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News" (and other EdTech Strategies blog posts) directly in your inbox: Email *. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition). Sign-up to receive "A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News" (and other EdTech Strategies blog posts) directly in your inbox: Email *. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2016

edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 edtech startups have increased every consecutive year. The 66 deals at this stage are the lowest since 2011, although they totaled $62.5 Santa proved a little more parsimonious to U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

A 2011 Logitech blog post headline read, “Enjoy Precision, Comfort and Control with New Logitech Wireless Mouse M325.” For the past decade, the M325 USB wireless mouse by Logitech has been a mainstay in the world of wireless mice. March 31, 2021, marked the 10-year anniversary of Logitech’s introduction of the M325 to the world.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

Monica Burns first started working with educational technology in 2011 when she was teaching at a New York City school that was becoming a magnet school. Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. Mon, 04/16/2018 - 12:41.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Tuesday, August 17, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. About Discovery Education Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2020

Additional edtech budget items: Most administrators’ budgets have detailed estimates that include direct costs (e.g., Reexamining impact and use of edtech tools: Most schools are already collecting data on how frequently programs are used and the impact of the programs on student learning goals. devices) and indirect costs (e.g.,

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Keep reading on to learn more about how interactive whiteboards are reshaping education or check out how ViewSonic is creating engaging spaces using all forms of EdTech. EdTech pros hail interactive whiteboards for their ability to quickly integrate classroom technology. Even technophobic teachers can use their most basic functions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Here’s a chronological roundup of stories that made the biggest bang on the edtech industry (and to a similar extent, our web traffic) in 2016. In the case of Teachscape, one of the rare edtech startups that’s stuck around for over a decade, its acquisition by Frontline Technologies marked the end of the road. Here’s What We Learned.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 2, 2012

For the past few years ( here and here ) I started a tradition (if we can call it that) where I look back at the year in #edtech and try to make predictions as to what''s going to take hold in the coming year. No science behind any of this.

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EdTechSandyK

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

After watching the Edublog Awards process for a few years, and even voting in the final round before, I''ve decided it''s time for me to get involved at the grass-roots level by making some of my own nominations in 2011! It blends the educational side of technology with the technical side.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2019

That also applies to “bootcamp” models of online learning, which made up half of the six edtech graduates. Here’s a glance at the newest players in the edtech industry. From K-12 classrooms to professional sales training, many entrepreneurs would say that learning is better together, with peers and instructors.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

tags: challengebasedlearning pbl favorite Edmodo - Extending Learning Beyond the Classroom tags: Edmodo favorite The 7 Golden Rules of Using Technology in Schools tags: technology favorite techintegration EdTech TechLearning: 14 Ways to improve Your School Web site tags: Website favorite A Model of Learning Objectives-Revised Blooms tags: bloomstaxonomy (..)

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Best Edtech/Resource Sharing Blog : Free Technology For Teachers What Richard has created here is the model of what resource sharing is and should be. It is definitely in my "go to" blogs every morning when I am looking for something new or interesting in the world of Edtech.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 17, 2011

Project Based Learning-Prezi tags: pbl prezi favorite Project Based Learning | BIE tags: pbl favorite Neotake: Your ebook search engine tags: ebooks favorite Developing a ''Tech Bill of Rights'' tags: digitalcitizenship favorite Teach With Your iPad tags: ipad favorite How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Professional Development?

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. My reflections on 2010, and my thoughts on 2011. What do you think will be the "big thing" in Edtech this year. I want to be hip. I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. How did I do? So there it is.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 5, 2011

tags: edtech tools favorite 8 Free Tools to Visualize Information on Twitter tags: twitter favorite Evolution of My PLNbyBeth Still tags: pln favorite Project Based Learning: Explained. Over 20 Free Digital Classroom Tools That Need No Log In!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Now pretend that it’s late 2011, and we get into a debate about education technology. I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. My edtech portfolio was more difficult to assemble. Our Basket of Edtech Stocks: 2U. We’re focused on edtech, after all.)

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2019

For the first time since 2011, @ISTE is revising its #K12 coaching standards. Thousands of educators from around the world have contributed to the standards' development and evolution. . amy.burroughs_26341. Tue, 06/25/2019 - 14:40. Tweet text. Educators have until Aug.16, 16, 2019, to provide input on the revision. 1549700320. video type.

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