Edsurge
APRIL 9, 2018
But losing a different kind of “pencil” that technology companies are aiming to push into schools may likely cause a bigger heartache and headache for the purchasing department. Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market. What’s in a Pen?
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. He adds that New Markets has funded “a handful” of companies in this situation. (He The Fulton, Md.-based
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Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. The firm aims to invest in up to another seven U.S.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. The company said it has fixed the glitch.) Today, the company claims its technology can power assessments for phonics, sentences and other fluency measurements.
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. 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. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University has been playing video games for four hours every day since 2003, solving puzzles and battling bosses in games such as Doom, Darksiders 2 and Uncharted 4. Gee: The first game I played was Adventures of the New Time Machine , in 2003.
Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 11, 2022
Longtime readers may recall that the research group I founded at Utah State University in 2003, the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities group, became The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning in 2005, which I directed until I moved to BYU.) I’ve been interested in sustainability models for OER for decades.
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