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Which Edtech Companies Are Producing the Best Research-Based Products?

Edsurge

As Alpha Public Schools administrator Jin-Soo Huh told EdSurge this past summer , “Edtech companies have a responsibility when putting out studies to understand data clearly and present it accurately.” Here are the top companies in each category. The Learning Sciences Category: BrainQuake, Inc.

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Does Your Company Really Need AI? Stanford Executive Course Aims to Demystify the Hype

Edsurge

Artificial intelligence has become a ubiquitous buzzword for tech companies these days, but even though all kinds of founders and CEOs say their product is infused with AI, the meaning of the term varies from advanced machine learning to a smart spreadsheet. In 2001, BusinessWeek estimated the executive education market at $800 million.

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

Edsurge

Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016. Given their respective footprints in the U.S.

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CatchOn Joins the Education Networks of America Family of Companies

techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018 In a move that enhances its mission of supporting education institutions and libraries, Education Networks of America ® (ENA) today announced that Dallas-based education technology company CatchOn, Inc has joined the ENA family of companies. ZMC is currently investing out of ZMC II, L.P. Canada, and around the world.

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Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field

The Hechinger Report

Earlier this year, the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company released the report “ The Future of Work in Black America ,” on the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and automation on specific racial groups — and it spells gloom and doom for African Americans. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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Fueled by Big Rounds, Edtech Funding Surges to $887M in First Half of 2017

Edsurge

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 ). Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. After a dip in dealflow and venture capital to U.S.

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