Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. million persons under the age of 18.

Education 195

Education Industry Training Strategy 195

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A 2008 state audit found that parents were pleased with how much they learned with these home visits. SPICE was meeting all of their learners’ needs except one, rural isolation, and this drove their focus on using technology to strengthen their program. In 2008, SPICE was already using technology in innovative ways.

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Technology Blended Learning Laptops Course 120

EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life.” (4) You’re just using the tool we’re all familiar with. That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. 4) Click to tweet.

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Learning System Dropout Conference 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The last week in January is action-packed, with four education events in London for people across the whole spectrum of education—from those who run the ministries to those who supply the tools, from those who teach to those who want to reform the system. Many of the ministers hop on over to Davos’ annual meeting afterward.

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Conference Education EdTech Company 73

Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

These days, using multimedia tools is a foregone conclusion for the well-resourced teacher; technology is enabling greater interactivity and engagement between students as well as with the information they are required to learn. Finally”, you thought, “some fun in class!”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. 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.

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Data Dropout Company Report 107

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he founded Provost Systems an online learning platform acquired by Edison Learning in 2008. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. Stay tuned!

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

With so many web tools out there that solve math problems, it’s easy for Brown’s online students to find a shortcut to answers and the calculations that go with them. A 2008 study in Los Angeles public schools found that those who didn’t pass algebra by ninth grade were half as likely to graduate as those who did.

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STEM Report Course Study 127

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Graduation rates for first-time, full-time students more than tripled from 2008 to 2016. 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. Since those days though, Texarkana College has earned a new reputation.

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Software System Technology Data 75

Learning with 'e's

MAY 29, 2013

Social media, the most social of all modern technologies, provided us with shared virtual spaces where we could ''meet''. My students tell me they use the LMS when they have to, but they use Facebook when they want to, because their tribe meets there. 2008) Tribes: We need you to lead us. References Godin, S. London: Piatkus.

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Social Media Facebook Industry LMS 64

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 20, 2021

It has been illegal for many decades for companies to use biases to discriminate against people during hiring, and how they are supervised or promoted. The ability to show the webinar (live or recorded) to a group located in the same physical location or in the same virtual meeting from one log-in: $299.

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Libraries Training Accessibility Groups 36

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This summer yielded a surprising announcement in the world of online education: that edX, founded by Harvard University and MIT a decade ago as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online education providers, had agreed to sell its operations to a for-profit company, 2U. Our brand is more akin to Alphabet than it is to Google.

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Coursera Company Course Online Learning 179

MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Norton & Company. Let’s imagine that this is the moment a parent challenges you in a meeting or the moment you learn that a colleague was diagnosed with a serious illness. A vacation, a good meal, and a win are very pleasant, so we might meet these moments with anticipation and delight. meeting confrontation.

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Secondary Comparison Study Examples 51

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

In just over a decade, 20 independent education companies have raised more than $2.7 Collectively, 116 directors serve on the boards of these privately-held companies. As much as one-third of edtech companies started during that time have a female CEO or founder. New Tools, Old Challenges. Only eight are women.

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Company EdTech Industry Trends 242

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

These new high schools, which rely on open admissions instead of competitive criteria like tests and grades, have multiplied to meet the exploding demand for workers with math, science and technology skills. In 2008, 9 percent of Hispanic and 10 percent of black students in the U.S. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

Technology 40

Technology Study Course Report 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

When Hallowell tried to extend proficiency-based education to its high school in 2008, parents put up a fight, saying the change would make it harder for their children to compete for scholarships and admission to selective schools, according to a case study published by the state Department of Education.

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s normal to have at least half of users not meeting the program’s usage targets. This method, prescribed by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC ), also meets ESSA Tier II evidence standards. This quasi-experimental WestEd study is verified by SRI to meet What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) quality evidence standards.

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Comparison EdTech E-rate Outcomes 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In the case of one community college in east Texas, achieving its goals required more than just a shiny new education technology tool. You meet people who you don't think you would click with, but because you had something in common, it brings different backgrounds together.” Electric companies don’t understand, ‘I need to go to class.’”

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Education Company Study Libraries 106

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2017

Deborah Quazzo, an investor in both companies, played matchmaker early last year and helped the two close the deal around the Thanksgiving holiday, Shenoy tells EdSurge in an interview. Founded in 2008, Speakaboos targets young children ages 2 to 6 with a library of over 200 interactive storybooks and songs.

Learning 60

Learning Company Libraries Assessment 60

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

On her first job as an apprentice, in 2008, men called her “the pookie princess” after the sealant she used to close ducts that snaked along the ceilings of the tract homes where she worked south of Seattle. She drove home and called the company headquarters in another city. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Industry Training Conference Company 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

After graduation, he returned to his home country, where he worked at the Arthur Anderson consulting firm and the Firestone tire company. The company, then known as B.C. So the company shifted its recruitment efforts to Texas, and its thousands of workers from Mexico and Central America. We haven’t kept up.”.

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Elementary Training Classroom Company 88

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Led by advertising and public-relations strategists, the groups have long plied the tools of their trade on impressionable children and teachers desperate for resources. Morgan, an oil company executive and a former state legislator, declined to say why the board’s materials fail to address global warming. While it spent $3.5

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Industry Education Company Groups 54

Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and Social Media on Violence and Student Safety.” The tutoring company has raised $825 million total. ” Notice anything missing from that list? million total.

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Education Microsoft MOOC Coursera 44

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . What other world leaders is Angela Merkel meeting with? Boyer has received the Students’ Choice Award as a Faculty Member of the Year for 13 straight years. And it’s not silly stuff. More timely than ever.

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Twitter Course Video Moodle 132

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? Google)’s biotech company, Calico. “Long Live Online Higher Education.”

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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40