Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Employees pay $1 a day to participate, and the company covers “tuition, books and fees,” according to an explanation of the program on the retail giant’s website. Gallagher says that past studies show that about five percent of employees take advantage of tuition benefits by companies. Walmart, the largest private employer in the U.S.,

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Study Pearson E-rate Training 109

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. PublicSchoolWORKS became possible in the late ’90s when the government launched the E-Rate Program. This can negatively affect student progress, grades, and even graduation rates,” explains Temming.

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E-rate Software Report Company 100

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

AI Tools for Teachers: Meet Curipod, AI Lesson Plan Builder 00;06;00;13 – 00;06;09;25 Vicki Davis And so, Amanda, can you give us some examples of some AI powered educational tools and programs and how they've been effective in helping students learn? And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college.

Education 216

Education Learning Software Knewton 216

ViewSonic Education

JULY 30, 2023

Choosing the best presentation display for your business’s meeting spaces can be overwhelming. This is why we’ve created this comprehensive guide to all types of presentation displays commonly used for meeting spaces in business settings. The advanced touchscreen interactivity is perfect for all types of meeting spaces.

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Meeting How To Software Conference 345

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

And we have 14 states that have teacher-run nonprofits that run the e-sports organizations for their state. So teachers together and the students that we serve are literally the largest e-sports organization in the country. And so it's a lot the same in how we should be treating e-sports. So we formed an interstate group.

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E-rate Education Meeting Industry 362

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. You can’t do anything that we can’t go back and fix for you using our magic Undo button and our versioning histories of course.”

Google 175

Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 175

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. Peak Performance Mathematics Bridge Program —a six-week summer course for students who place below the first math class in their chosen field of study. For some students and courses, Fisher combined EWA with tutoring and modular courses.

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 88

EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The most common goals for any project are: Attract more customers: these strategies should focus on increasing conversion rates and getting users to take a specific action (download an app, buy a product, subscribe to your newsletter, etc.). Market research: it’s like meeting friends before the big night. Ease of use.

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Strategy Social Media E-rate Meeting 52

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As a Title 1 district with 98 percent minority enrollment and nationally known for an above-average graduation rate, UCSD leaders credit much of the district’s success to a mission for technology equity. CMS is implementing Essential Physics in all 19 high schools that offer physics or honors physics courses.

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 63

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. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 83

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 93

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. I used distance education courses to complete a Masters degree and soon was involved in distance education delivery for a local community college.

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. They tout “holistic” review yet boast about incoming students’ high test scores and aggressively try to increase applications so that they reject more, which lowers acceptance rates, which increases their perceived “selectivity” and moves them up in the rankings.

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E-rate Assessment Report Examples 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Elizabeth Bassford, Vice President of Content & Implementation, Curriculum Associates As the multidisciplinary nature of astronomy is recognized, schools should look to expand curriculums with more astronomy-focused courses in 2024.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 8, 2017

Furthermore with companies like Neverware which can turn most any old device into a high-speed Chromebook, cost and tech support are no longer the barriers they once were. 2) The filtering divide Schools that service children living in poverty receive e-rate funding which requires schools to filter the internet.

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Chromebook Internet Safety E-rate Laptops 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Th e app is in the testing phase now, and due to high early demand, will be released to early signups first. Your ratings help other teachers find the show so they can benefit from it, too. Your ratings help other teachers find the show so they can benefit from it, too. Go to Riffiti.com to sign up! But we can’t control that.

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E-rate Personal Learning Network Meeting Mobility 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Elizabeth Bassford, Vice President of Content & Implementation, Curriculum Associates As the multidisciplinary nature of astronomy is recognized, schools should look to expand curriculums with more astronomy-focused courses in 2024.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. LG also unveiled its expanded training programs through the LG Academy, with a new course set to launch specifically for LG CreateBoard line in the first quarter.

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EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 128

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Additionally, few companies are able to learn about the impact of the training and educational programs available to their employees or use data to improve these offerings. While about 90 percent of companies who employ frontline workers offer educational and training opportunities, and U.S. Roles that have the fastest turnover rates.

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Data Industry Training E-rate 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Huh uh,” Kunz said, “none of those.”

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E-rate Elementary Education Report 120

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via LA School Report : “LAUSD credit recovery vendor finds strong demand for online makeup courses nationwide.” they do boost graduation rates.). Via Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy : “These Colleges Have The Worst Student Loan Default Rates In The Country.” MOOC hype deja vu.). ” Via WYFF4.com

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via NPR on Sunday : “ President Trump Set To Meet With Presidents Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities.” ” Via NPR on Tuesday : “ Trump, And Most Black College Presidents, Absent From Annual Meeting.” Via The Washington Post : “ Student loan companies reach $21.6 More via Edsurge.

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Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / At first, the computers primarily offered online college courses from Ashland University. “I WASHINGTON, D.C. Jerard Briscoe is away at school. It’s a plausible story.

Tablets 162

Tablets E-rate Khan Academy Study 162

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. Via The New York Times : New York governor “ Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons.” Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.”

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This includes navigating the often politicized issues related to immunizations, the high student absence rate due to quarantines or parents wanting to keep their children home, and the negative impact the pandemic had on student and staff mental health. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. billion by 2022.

EdTech 110

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 110

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

This includes navigating the often politicized issues related to immunizations, the high student absence rate due to quarantines or parents wanting to keep their children home, and the negative impact the pandemic had on student and staff mental health. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. billion by 2022.

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EdTech Learning Data Classroom 145

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." He anticipates needing to purchase around 2,000 to meet that goal.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

A successful launch means higher adoption rates and a higher level of satisfaction with the new platform. This can be done through newsletters, emails, presentations, meetings and so on. Or, maybe use the LMS for teacher professional development courses? If needed, see if you can be trained by the company. Make it fun!

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LMS E-rate Training EdTech 304

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Of course, the US can’t let the UK lead for too long when it comes to terrible people and terrible ideas in education. ” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” ” “Special bracelets” are, of course, ed-tech. This is how well your district does.”

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Of course, traditional newspapers feature writing of all sorts–straight reporting, editorials, features, columns, advertisements and comments in their digital versions. ” ( Wikipedia ).

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Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. Via The Atlantic : “ School-Security Companies Are Thriving in the Era of Mass Shootings.”

E-rate 44

E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Via NPR : “Meet Jin Park , The First DACA Recipient Awarded A Rhodes Scholarship.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge.

Education 58

Education MOOC Social Media E-rate 58

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Of course, some education reform proponents want to frame DeVos as “ mainstream ,” but she’s far from it. ( And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.). His rather disastrous business history in ed-tech includes SoftKey and The Learning Company.

Education 40

Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. ” The company in question: edX. ” More on the course and the university’s decision via Inside Higher Ed. ” From the HR Department. ” But hey.

Education 40

Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.) The Flipped Classroom".

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145