Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” There’s nothing glitzy about the software itself.

Education 209

Education Learning Software Knewton 209

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. FY 2015 $0. Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort (Mathematica Policy Research, 2007).

Policies 150

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Providing hosted services rather than giving districts the software to install on their own servers is better for edtech companies; it makes their products easier and cheaper to deploy and maintain. And perhaps in the future, E-rate can be modified to help districts fund cybersecurity when the current program expires in 2019.

EdTech 60

EdTech E-rate Symantec Data 60

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Meet the West Virginia teen taught himself how to build a rapping AI using Kanye West lyrics | Quartz Media → To upend the perceived shortage of talent, tech companies have begun to evangelize for open-source AI code, or software that’s free to use, modify, and improve upon. " Readers respond.with gusto.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. billion was spent on software. classrooms. The market research firm IDC estimates that $4.9

iPad 82

iPad Broadband Software Company 82

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5 " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. public high schools (42.5 " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

.” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. .”

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. In 2015, nearly 500 students participated in the program and 56 percent improved their math placement at least one level; one student jumped four levels. NAU saw immediate positive impact,” she adds. And the school earned a DLIAward.

Tools 78

Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 78

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Enabling users to combine text with images and narration, the software has the potential to help boost literacy skills and appeal to diverse learning styles. Students now interview authors across the country via Skype and access books that match their interests and reading levels on e-readers.

Broadband 41

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

Educator Innovator

MARCH 30, 2016

An initiative to fill community spaces with programs using innovative equipment, software, and professionals is teaching youth how to learn by immersing them in digital arts. Yet there’s something to be said for the convenience inherent in e-readers. That was in January [2015],” Niq tells me.

Libraries 38

Libraries Laptops E-rate Software 38

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

But most kindergarten-readiness and online preschool software is offered by for-profit companies. a month for the first student in the family who enrolls, with a discounted rate for additional students. Chip Donohue, director of the Technology in Early Childhood Center at the Erikson Institute. Waterford’s UPSTART is free.

Laptops 156

Laptops Accessibility Online Learning Company 156

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“The 2015 PISA Results: What Do They Mean?” million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” “After falling, college graduation rates begin to rebound,” The Hechinger Report reports. “U.S.

Education 40

Education Report E-rate Company 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3 million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. .” ” These colleges no longer offer federal loans because of students’ high default rates.

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.” million total. (No

Education 48

Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

While the federal government awards billions of dollars annually to get schools and libraries online, through its E-rate program, Albemarle’s project is technically ineligible for that because it’s “off campus,” even though it will be an extension of the school network with all its security, filters and firewalls.

Broadband 91

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 91

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

1 AV TECHNOLOGY FOR SOFT SKILLS AND DESIGN THINKING “The Role of Education in Building Soft Skills,” a Wainhouse Research K-12 report from 2015, revealed that problem-solving and collaborative skills are the primary soft skills on which schools should be focusing in the next decade. The possibilities are endless.

Elementary 47

Elementary Trends Case Study System 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Via The Chicago Tribune : “ Chance the Rapper writes $1 million check to CPS as a ‘call to action’ ” “The History of the Future of E-rate ” by me. “When Social Media Assignments Increase Risks for Vulnerable Students” by Monica Bulger and Jade E. ” asks Graham Attwell.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Via CNET : “ Verizon to pay $17M to resolve FCC, Justice E-Rate probes.” Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development.” ” More via Buzzfeed. ” “Free College” There’s more about free college plans in the state politics section above.

Education 48

Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” “ Salesforce will start selling its online learning platform, which has helped its own employees change roles and get promotions,” says MIT Technology Review , going with the wonderful lie in the headline “Making Job-Training Software People Actually Want to Use.” ” asks MIT Technology Review.

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” (This reminds me of this wretched “ thought experiment ” posted in 2015: “How Soylent and Oculus Could Fix The Prison System.” The e-book subscription service has raised $21.45 “Software is eating the world” or “venture capitalists have no f **g clue” – you decide.

Education 48

Education MOOC Report Company 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Wheeler supported e-Rate reform and “ net neutrality.” Heather Hiles , formerly the CEO of portfolio company Pathbrite (which was sold to Cengage Learning in 2015) will be the new “ deputy director of postsecondary success ” at the Gates Foundation. ” Via Slate : “ Wrongful Arrest by Software.”

Education 40

Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

“New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. 17zuoye has raised $200 million in Series E funding from Toutiao. ” Go, School Sports Team! Memos from HR. million total.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech. ” So congrats, ed-tech vendors.)

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40