Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). Yet that’s not all.

Symantec 71

Symantec Kaplan Company EdTech 71

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

The only other education technology company present, out of 45 total recipients, is Agile Mind , which develops online math and science curriculum and assessments. 2016 SBIR Awardees. What distinguishes SBIR-backed companies is the level of research baked into their product development. 3C Institute (SEL for autistic students).

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EdTech Symantec Company Assessment 60

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 160

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 ). 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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EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 94

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 191

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Tuition increased 89 percent from 2002 to 2012, and textbook prices—which cost anywhere from $600 to $1300 today—rose 82 percent over the same period, according to U.S. The program, which kicked off in 2016 , shared its first set of findings today about what faculty are learning it takes to create an OER degree.

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OER Course Outcomes Report 109

techlearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The company partners with schools to provide online monitoring software that can alert instructors or administrators if it detects students typing or searching for certain keywords related to sexting, cyberbullying, radicalization, self-harm and more. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5 and Australia.

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Software Digital Citizenship Handbook Advocacy 40

techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

The company will showcase the new features of its award-winning product this week at ISTE 2018 in booth #630. “We It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5 million devices in over 90 countries.

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Software Digital Citizenship Handbook BYOD 40

edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2017

The 2016 results are in. edWeb.net just completed an analysis of their 2016 webinar viewership stats for 2016. They hosted 260 professional learning webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar. Who is participating the most in professional learning webinars?

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Professional Learning Kaplan Learning Education 40

techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

These are important tasks and I look forward to working with the company as we move forward with this work both in the UK, and the U.S.” It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5

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Software Digital Citizenship Handbook Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S. In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. million students took about 4.5 In 2014-15, some 2.7

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 65

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Nationally, school district debt has grown substantially, from nearly $323 billion in 2006 to $443 billion in 2016, according to U.S. In addition to the housing development falling through, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, one of the region’s major employers, pulled up stakes in Ann Arbor. Census data. Census data.

Report 88

Report Elementary System Data 88

MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Norton & Company. In fact, mindfully savoring positive experience promotes resilience (Smith & Bryant, 2016). Oliva & Piqueras, 2016; Simons & Gaher, 2005). regulate are becoming more popular for younger children (Lantieri, 2002), they are not usually available to adolescents.

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Secondary Comparison Study Examples 51

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

In just over a decade, 20 independent education companies have raised more than $2.7 Collectively, 116 directors serve on the boards of these privately-held companies. As much as one-third of edtech companies started during that time have a female CEO or founder. See our full list of companies and board members here. .

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Company EdTech Industry Trends 232

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

Since 2002, Mortenson has led the organization through significant national expansion, reaching more than 655,000 middle and high school youth and 4,500 educators across 25 states and 5 countries, from offices based in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York.

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Conference Secondary Study Digital Badges 31

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S. In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. million students took about 4.5

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

He then got his Bachelors in Networking and Telecommunication from DeVry University, and while going to school worked for a company that helpe larger organizations relocate and setup new computer systems. In 2002, with partner Rick Harrell, former President of Futurekids, Inc., Ernie and Rick founded BEYOND Technology Education.

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Conference Kaplan Learning Libraries 36

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One team of seven researchers led by Jeni Burnette, a psychologist at North Carolina State University, found that the results were wildly different for students across 53 studies published between 2002 and 2020. Sometimes students benefited a lot from a short online lesson about mindset and their grades rose. Often they didn’t.

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Analysis Study Training Report 128

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy. The first is that a company is unlikely to publish unfavorable results. That might allow an education product company to measure what they’re teaching more precisely. That’s an archive of research that the U.S.

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Education Study Analysis Industry 112

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To date, Stephen’s work has been featured by Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, TNT, Disney, Discovery TV, NPR, Teach Middle East, The Gulf National, and countless others. Barbara coined the phrase “Making Learning Personal” in 2000 and trademarked it in 2002.

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Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims.

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Social Media Learning Facebook Analysis 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches. That is, Internet speeds of 100 Mbps per 1000 users.)

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

Utah Virtual Academy’s 2016 graduation rate was just 42%. She purchased shares of the company in 2002 and 2003, she said in her remarks, but sold them in 2008. The Ohio Virtual Academy received an F for its Graduation Rate component due to a 53% rate of graduation in four years. And maybe it does.

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Education Policies STEM Report 40