Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. "The only thing that matters is the future," Levandoski told the magazine.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

And as they do their homework on how to set up and run their online programs, some colleges are even looking to other sectors, like the corporate trainings that big companies run for their employees online. Kidwell: Back in 2003, real estate was a crazy market. Berkshire Hathaway is not a bad company to be in league with.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. By Robert Low. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

Education must adopt not only the products but the values of the high tech industry. We have known for some time now that tech companies extract massive amounts of data from us in order to run (and ostensibly improve) their services. Despite these companies’ influence in education, despite Zuboff’s reliance on B.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. education industry has not become so dependent (yet). To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Based Company.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. The edtech industry made big strides during this era.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. Our industry requires it,” he said. million were reported to Inc.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

With more than 20 years in the industry, Larry has seen the ups and downs, twists and turns. It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. The company is no longer as high-profile—or as big—as it once was. So what is Amplify today? It makes us better.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

a statistical-services company based in Rockville, Maryland. Overall, the number of statistics bachelor’s degrees has grown from 526 in 2003 to 1,678 in 2013. Our graduates are getting excellent jobs in industry with a statistics degree. Morganstein, vice president and director of the statistical staff for Westat, Inc.,

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

MIND’s Chief Data Science Officer Andrew Coulson has made the case time and time again that the “one good study” paradigm is insufficient for edtech practitioners to base decisions on, and that a model of repeatable results at scale is one that should be adopted across the education industry. Dietrich, 2004), to name a few. Schneider, W., &

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Travel companies may provide base prices, but this doesn’t include things like insurance, tip money, optional excursions, and more. She has traveled with over 800 students to Washington, DC since 1993 and to Europe since 2003, and is passionate about providing equity in educational travel for students. Look beyond base prices.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2003, Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler conducted an experiment at Best Buy headquarters , where they worked in human resources. They were curious if framing employees’ work by their results (instead of “you have to be at your desk from X to Y”) would improve both company outcomes and employees’ experiences. Innovate in a caring way.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Almost all of those companies went out of business. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry. Lesson learned #4: Don’t pursue every industry standard.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Almost all of those companies went out of business. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry. Lesson learned #4: Don’t pursue every industry standard.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2018

Travel companies may provide base prices, but this doesn’t include things like insurance, tip money, optional excursions, and more. She has traveled with over 800 students to Washington, DC since 1993 and to Europe since 2003, and is passionate about providing equity in educational travel for students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. Foundations had given seed money.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

See [link] How many have died just in Iraq since the 2003 invasion (see [link] )? When people are quick to label any questioning or independent thinking as "conspiracy theories," I ask myself: did you not watch or learn about the tobacco industry misrepresenting the truth for decades? How do we discuss that?

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

I can start and get companies to a profitable turnkey state that run like a well-oiled machine—but that’s about it. My first company, Isavix, had several Fortune 500 customers and sold in 2003 to a private group named InScope International. Of course, having a good lawyer and accountant from the get-go is essential.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Media Platforms and Industries. Media Platforms and Industries You can't truly understand media without understanding the circumstances in which it gets produced. How do the larger industries, corporations, and economies surrounding, supporting, and/or contesting media affect which media gets produced or what it means?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

He has advanced degrees from leading European universities, is a former industrial chemist, published photographer, and consultant to MOMA. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. Father Goose).Sea

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Trying to break into the field, she got an internship at M5 industries with Jamie Hyneman. In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. airing on Discovery in 2020.)

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. So who do you believe? The scientists? The engineers? No evidence.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As I noted in the previous article in this series , the technology industry has continued this year to advocate for changes to both policy and curriculum to expand computer science education. billion ) – but that didn’t stop some industry folks from crooning about what they saw as a windfall. Saturday’s Child.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Consider this results of this report in the context of with the decline of the newspaper industry also documented by recent Pew Research Center data. Hoax-Slayer : Australian Brett Christensen has been debunking email and social media hoaxes and spam since 2003. ” ( Wikipedia ).

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Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

These schools are desperately needed to diversify economies that rely disproportionately on manufacturing and agriculture and lack the wealthy private institutions that fuel the knowledge industries found in Silicon Valley or along Boston’s 128/I-95 corridor. billion allocated annually by the federal government for research.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The FCC plays a particularly important role in regulating the telecommunications industry, and as such, it has provided oversight for the various technologies long touted as “revolutionizing” education – radio, television , the Internet. The Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that CIPA does not violate the Constitution.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This is part three of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As an education technology writer, I’m often chastised for considering student loan companies as part of my analysis. Student loan companies are “not really ed-tech,” some people still try to insist.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” From the Bloomberg Editorial Board : “A Raw Deal From Betsy DeVos ” – “ Rolling back regulations on the for-profit college industry will cause the public pain.” This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. There is No Technology Industry (There is Only Ideology). “ There is no ‘technology industry’ ,” technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash wrote in August.

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