Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2021

Such services were a dime a dozen, she quickly learned. This path has led the Austin-based company to compete head-on against one of the most established players in the business: Naviance. Fang is aware of what she’s up against in Naviance, which was founded in 2002 and says it is used by over 13 million students across 13,000 schools.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2017

I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts in 2002. Upon completion I was offered a job teaching English to business managers at an international company and worked there for a few months before being offered a job teaching children and young adults. Katharine McAllister has been a TEFL teacher since 2002.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. The company charges $1,500 for one game available to 2,500 players, with $499 for every administrator added to the game.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

LOS ANGELES–( BUSINESS WIRE )– GoGuardian , the leading education technology company helping K-12 schools maximize the learning potential of every student, today announced the appointment of former Google executive Jenny Zhao as GoGuardian’s Chief Technology Officer. Air Force and Disneyland.

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techlearning

AUGUST 13, 2018

Concurrently, the company announced that Jeffrey D. Before joining Scientific Learning, Thomas was involved with several private-equity backed education companies in CEO and executive chairman positions. and six years as president and CFO of Ambassador International, both publicly-traded, educational travel companies.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. Blackboard, a Reston, Va.-based LTG will pay $31.7

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

After all, shouldn’t learning be fun? So, having no idea where to begin a curriculum, they turn to so-called experts: companies that sell them products to meet new coding or STEM requirements. Unfortunately, dragging and dropping is not coding, and don’t even think about taking on robotics until you’ve learned to code.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

Founded in 2002 and based in Pittsburgh, Niche has raised a total of about $45 million in venture capital. Skurman’s company originally focused on college ratings under the name College Prowler. In 2013, the company rebranded as Niche and added K-12 and neighborhood data. Niche.com CEO Luke Skurman shares company history.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2023

This year marks 21 years since the competition began in 2002. You can learn more about the Microsoft Office Specialist US National Championship here. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. in the United States and other countries.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

(CNY) In the spirit of celebrating cultural diversity and love of world cultures, I went ahead and prepared this list of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals that you can share with you students and help them learn more about Chinese New Year and its traditions. Chinese Zodiac Animals 1. If you were born in the Horse year (e.g.,1930,

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Mobile Learning Mobility Groups Company 91

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.

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Symantec Kaplan Company EdTech 70

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

According to company officials, Naviance is used by about 40 percent of high schools in the U.S. Naviance, which provides its tools to districts for about $10 per student, “has found a way to do this that other technology companies have not done, or not as successfully.”.

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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. Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. The bull is back—or is it? Round Size.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

There’s even a growing body of scholarly work that outlines a critique against the corporatization of college—arguing that even when reforms are well-intentioned, they are making campuses more like burger franchises than centers of learning and research. That’s not what we went into this thinking we would learn.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But the increasingly sophisticated technologies that people have come to rely on should not absolve personal responsibility for learning how to spell, write or communicate, says Dave Eggers. That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002.

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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. Early Learning Labs (language assessment). What distinguishes SBIR-backed companies is the level of research baked into their product development. 2016 SBIR Awardees.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2017

Who is participating the most in professional learning webinars? They hosted 260 professional learning webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar. Thirty eight webinars (15%) were on early learning topics and had 45,000 (27%) of the viewers. Early childhood educators!

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Learn more about People Products at Staples. A 2002 study found that telephones, desks, water fountain handles, microwave door handles, and computer keyboards are the most bacteria-laden culprits in our workplaces today. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to edit and post it.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. Students in Holmes County do not have the same benefits as students in more affluent areas,” Meeks said.

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 65

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

From Testing to Triumphant Learning with Pam Moran. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. You can change the dominant pedagogy from teaching at the teaching wall to more project based work or activity based and inquiry focused learning. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. To learn more about this powerful event and to register, visit the 20th Anniversary of 9/11: Paying Tribute Through Good Deeds homepage here. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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EdTech Education Social Media Resources 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

There’s a growing consensus that today’s economy is increasingly defined by the need for continuous learning. And, in our Gallup survey of American adults, only 29 percent of Americans said they believe that large businesses are doing enough to address the need for career-long learning and training.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

Confusion over the meaning of the word “free” (e.g., ‘if my company uses programs licensed as free software, does that mean I can’t charge customers?’) ’) was the original fear, uncertainty, and doubt that kept companies from engaging in this work. I was a music major from West Virginia.

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OER Software Company Microsoft 79

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The day after the launch, for example, Espino and classmate Jaime Sanchez were learning Python programming through Udacity, an online education platform that offers “nanodegrees.” As a high schooler, Kateryn Raymundo interned at Salesforce, a tech company, through the nonprofit Genesys Works. Photo courtesy of Pedro Raymundo.

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Robotics STEM Company Software 89

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Since arriving from Mexico at age 18 in 2002, Abraham Cachu has dabbled in technology, starting with music software. He was working for a tech company, but this was no tech job. In July, Cachu started taking online classes during the day, learning skills and programming languages like R, which is often used in data analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

To her left, Makayla offered: “My sunshine share is the part where we learned about oak trees.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. And yet, the increased popularity of social-emotional learning has given rise to concern about ineffective, or even harmful, curricula entering schools. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

The professional learning community hosted 260 PD webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar. Thirty eight webinars (15 percent) were on early learning topics and had 45,000 (27 percent) of the viewers. Next page: 7 more of the top early learning PD webinars of 2016).

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Kaplan Professional Learning Analysis Company 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2012

Join me Tuesday, March 20th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Cathy Davidson to talk about her new book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. Davidson is the Ruth F.

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myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Learn how it happened and how it will affect educators. For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. In our whitepaper: Modern Educational Insights: The End Of Flash – EdTech And E-learning Users Beware we explored the beginning, rise, and ultimate end of Flash.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Earlier we talked to educators who feel disillusioned by edtech companies’ seemingly disingenuous engagement tactics or feel invisible in the edtech choices made at their schools. At the start of our journey to pull back some of the edtech curtain, we set out to survey roughly 30 edtech companies of varying sizes and subject areas.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

The coronavirus has affected the lives of these children since third grade – Prince William just returned to full-time, in-person learning this school year – but the fifth graders don’t like to imagine the pandemic in their future. In 20 years, she wants to run a dance company for children with disabilities.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale. 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. million students took about 4.5

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