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). Over the past three years, private equity groups have upped their stake in education technology companies.

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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. For years, he served as the business partner and editor for Tim O’Reilly’s O’Reilly Media, which itself has become an intellectual (and publishing) nexus for the technology community. (A

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Plus: printers, smart speakers and privacy (oh my!) — all in this Edtech Reports Recap. So declares the newest forward-looking publication from the higher-ed information technology association EDUCAUSE, “ 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Information Security Edition.” 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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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. Equally important to our product strategy were “The Two Commandments:” Ease of use and enterprise technology.

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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. Natasha Rachell, a passionate educator, is an alternatively certified high school science teacher turned edtech enthusiast!

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I will not be assigning penance today – although as a scholar of history and culture, I do want you (all of us, really) to think about what we’ve done; to think about what we’ve said; to think about the stories we tell about the future of technology and education. I’m interested in what we believe technology will do.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Her passion for smart entertainment has lead her around the world, speaking on the role of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) programming on television. Since then she has served in various capacities including as a literacy coach, ed tech professional development manager and technology innovation manager.

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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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