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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

Kaplan

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech

EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

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.

EdTech

EdTech eBook Study Data

U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

Policies

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education

Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. It is only one of the companies in our broad and diverse portfolio of media, communications and technology assets.”

Company

Company Industry Software EdTech

SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tracking Capabilities of SCORM When a learner is sitting through an eLearning module, some data will be monitored and stored, which will then be sent to the LMS. SCORM 2004 When SCORM 2004 was launched, it was called SCORM 1.3. As of now, there is no news regarding an updated version of SCORM 2004.

Study

Study eBook LMS Guidelines

SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 22, 2022

When a learner is sitting through an eLearning module, some data will be monitored and stored, which will then be sent to the LMS. The data which is stored and then tracked is: Status of the eLearning module, i.e., has it been finished by the learner. Marked data is the information the learner might have saved or highlighted.

Study

Study eBook LMS Guidelines

Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

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.

Symantec

Symantec Kaplan Company EdTech

Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

To do that, it has partnered with the Empirical Educator Project , a group of colleges and edtech companies led by e-Literate , a popular education blog, that holds summits and encourages participants to try each others’ tools and approaches. We need models, we need colleagues, we need collaborators, we need partners,” she says.

Software

Software Digital Learning Sakai Learning

SCORM – Why does it matter and why do you need it?

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2022

The de-facto industry standard for eLearning interoperability, SCORM defines a set of standards for developing eLearning products, and also the data models and communication methods to ensure coordination between the learning management systems (LMSs) and eLearning software. and SCORM 2004 3rd Edition are the most widely used versions.

LMS

LMS Guidelines Knowledge Base Training

A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Texarkana College adopted new enterprise software and other edtech tools like an early-alert system, but technology was only one aspect of the school’s effort. And in fact, some officials attribute poor technology purchasing decisions as one of the roots of their troubles. We let technology leave us in the dust.

Software

Software System Technology Data

Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. Plus: printers, smart speakers and privacy (oh my!) — all in this Edtech Reports Recap. The potential impacts, good and bad?

Secondary

Secondary Trends Survey Data

Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! Sometimes very hard.

Instructional Materials

Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company

Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

The answer to these questions is yes, so said educational leaders and edtech specialists in an edLeader Panel, sponsored by Gaggle and CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate. They described how districts and schools successfully used sophisticated technology to read students’ “digital signals” to meet their academic and social-emotional needs.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics

'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

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.

Robotics

Robotics Company Technology System

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