Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. billion, the deal is the larger than the total amount that edtech startups raised in 2018, which reached a new peak last year at $1.45 Double Check While the edtech industry is applauding the deal’s check size, critics of the company are concerned.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

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). Currently, he predicts, the financiers in the edtech industry will focus on consolidating revenue-generating businesses.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2022

You want to do this cost-effectively without too much fuss over content development, and deliver the course from your existing Learning Management System in an efficient, easy manner. You’d like to buy some of your courses from off-the-shelf content providers, but you may like to create custom courses in-house for certain topics.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Dougherty is, of course, the perfect narrator for the maker movement in no small part because he got it rolling. Come meet Dale Dougherty, Tim O’Reilly and Betsy Corcoran at the SF Edtech Meetup on Thursday, Nov. All that’s missing from “Free to Make” are a few stories of making gone awry—which, of course, it must sometimes do.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 9, 2018

" Founded in 2004 by a few Stanford professors including faculty director David Kelley , the d.School offers courses to all students at Stanford, no matter their major. Schools often assume that design thinking is a "techie thing" and send their edtech coordinators and directors to design-thinking workshops.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

When it first opened its doors in 2004 as a part of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the organization took a leading role in opening charter schools across the city—130 of them, to be exact. Here’s what happened. Creating a Platform to Help Parents Navigate New Schools for Chicago wasn’t always focused on school choice.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 3, 2012

All my humble opinion, of course! Until you feel the power of it by following EdTech leaders and subject specific chat''s it''s hard to believe how amazingly powerful it is! Of course, being a Google Certified Teacher I''m a big fan of all the amazing Google apps for Education ! Speaking of Flickr - I Love Me Some Flickr!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Plus: printers, smart speakers and privacy (oh my!) — all in this Edtech Reports Recap. The majority, though, come from “non-academic providers”—57 percent are licenses, certifications, course completion certificates, apprenticeships and badges. Credential Engine: “ Counting U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models. In some ways, Amplify has returned to its roots.

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techlearning

JULY 24, 2018

Founded in 2004, Flocabulary began as a revolutionary SAT prep platform that taught vocabulary through rap lyrics. Over the course of his career in education management, Heiman has developed a reputation as a driver of accelerated business growth, strategy and innovation.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 20, 2020

I think back to August of 2004 when I interviewed for my first teaching position. Of course, when you delegate to your staff there are some things that you should think about. Dr. Natasha Rachell, a passionate educator, is an alternatively certified high school science teacher turned edtech enthusiast!

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. In recent memory, we launched Blackboard in 1997 and took the company public seven years later in 2004.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

That is the purpose of the Horizon Report, of course: it’s a story about the future. Sidenote: Someone from the Clayton Christensen Institute recently invoked the history of household appliances in an op-ed for Edsurge , asking “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” Imaginations and markets.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

During 2020, WLS is finding new ways to help teachers make the shift to remote learning, including 5-day virtual teacher courses. In 2004, she started her Rethinking Learning blog in My eCoach. In June 2010, Chris was named as one of the “30 Most Influential People in EdTech” by Technology & Learning Magazine.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Now the course is offered each semester and a whopping 3,000 students take it in any given school year. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. The class then had 50 students.

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