Neo LMS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. Less than 53% of American adults read at least one book for pleasure in 2019. 4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading. Technology might come in handy in this case.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And as it turns out, edtech companies are attracting a premium from buyers as well. Terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed, but EdSurge has learned that the transaction was around $140 million. Talks with Discovery Education initially began with this in mind around the end of 2019, according to Schacht.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yet despite that esoteric reputation, Montessori methods aspire to similar outcomes as many others in education: to help children develop agency and independence, often through hands-on learning and open-ended, collaborative activities. Many companies in edtech take the Netflix approach. To date, the Lake Forest, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. Students can upload and view their evidence of learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. For the next eight days we'll be publishing three special 30-minute video interviews each day with an amazing set of learning experts (see below), for a total of 24 interviews (and maybe a surprise bonus interview or two). See all of the speakers here.

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