Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

That strategy paid off over 10 years ago when, as a graduate student at Brigham Young University, he found that his peers were disgruntled with the learning management system used on campus at the time. That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. (He I hope this will remain low cost.”

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 15, 2018

Cruzan was joined by LaShona Dickerson, technology director for Lafayette Parish School System in Louisiana, to give CoSN attendees tips on how to better plan for E-rate funding and avoid unnecessary audits. The larger the school or library system, the more likely the system will face a review, Cruzan said. Content Subtype.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In the Putnam County (TN) School System— a rural school district with 23 schools spread across 400 miles—our personalized learning approach has allowed us to reshape education for students on a variety of fronts. Canvas is our learning management system (LMS) and provides a framework for our blended learning environment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce. Our higher education system formed around libraries. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. We see an explosion of startups. Distance reduction allow companies to compete worldwide.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

In this role, Glovin, a seasoned senior edtech sales executive, will develop and implement a U.S. Peter’s proven background in edtech sales and business development will undoubtedly help open doors for Osmo in the education field,” says Cherian Thomas, Senior Vice President of International Business at Osmo from BYJU’S. “The

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For one, the CEO of the learning management system provider didn’t shirk away from a possible sale of its corporate LMS, Bridge, which launched in 2015. International sales accounts for about 20 percent of total revenue for Instructure, which was founded in 2008. As an example, he said that eight deals in the U.K.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Smarter Learning Management Systems.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

When “ Disrupting Class ” was published in 2008, we caused a stir by predicting that by the fall of 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or fashion. Thirty-five percent of teachers say they use edtech daily, and another 23 percent say they use it most days.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Instructure, best known for its Canvas learning management system, announced Wednesday that it is set to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo for approximately $2 billion—unless a better offer comes along in the next 35 days. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

In 2008, iParadigms was acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. 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

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That’s why we’ve also highlighted a few here that we don’t want you to miss, from complicated community college turnarounds to where IKEA and edtech overlap. Beyond Design Thinking: Why Education Entrepreneurs Need to Think in Systems. What Do Edtech and IKEA Have in Common? And edtech is no stranger to it.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Indeed, when they researched their own success through Project Oxygen in 2008, they discovered eight key characteristics of their outstanding leaders, ranked in the following order of importance: 1. Two great leaders, one common theme Systems and structures change nothing. A very human vision. They're good coaches.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

The former Kaplan executive, who served as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, oversaw 67 acquisitions that turned the test-prep business into a global education services provider. 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).

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While some of these were tangible—like the need to equip all students with tech tools and WiFi access—it’s the more systemic changes that are catching educators’ attention. She was named in 2020 as the winner of EdTech Digest’s National Leader award. Overall, the latest results reveal important changes in the education conversation.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

Financial systems can be complex for those that are inexperienced with them. Founded in 2008, EVERFI’s Impact-as-a-Service TM solution and digital educational content have reached more than 45 million learners globally. The data we’ve collected shows that students need real financial education, and they need it now.”.

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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. 20-23): the people who run education politically; Bett (Jan.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Now, with the widespread cancellation of schools and conferences (where investors and entrepreneurs often meet), edtech investors are advising startups to heed Sequoia’s advice. School budgets may well soon dip too, as they did following the last recession in 2008.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

A “cascading failure” is a failure in a system of interconnected parts. We’re familiar with cascading failure from awareness of power transmission grids, the financial systems, how the United States Postal Service has been overrun by Fed-X and UPS into huge debt and more. Friction of inconceivable proportions has resulted. .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It can be implemented in modern learning management system (LMS) technologies to help improve student learning, from their first day in kindergarten to their last day of earning a university degree. The testing effect, also known as retrieval practice, practice testing, or test-enhanced learning, needs a place in today’s modern learning.

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LMS Assessment Technology Study 79

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2008, there weren’t too many options for a digital platform to ask students to interact outside class. Rather than having a label as a student who gets by with passing grades, this system allows students to gain confidence in themselves. Deciding to stay in the classroom meant furthering his education for certification.

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Strategy Tools Gamification Moodle 89

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. And he’s no stranger to the campus today.

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Software System Technology Data 74

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

As edtech buzzwords new and old swirl , it is easy for educators to get lost among the fads du jour, much less apply the principles behind lofty ideas to make meaningful progress for students. They can move ahead in the curriculum or, if a particular area has caught their fancy, dive deeper and learn more.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

While creators in the edtech space often feel they’ve made something patent-worthy, two problems usually stand in the way. She opened up to EdSurge about the process she went through to give would-be edtech inventors a glimpse into the trials and tribulations involved in getting a patent. The History of Edtech via Patent Applications.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). Think of flipped as the operating system of education. Think of flipped as the operating system of education. “Simple designs work well, and simplicity makes things happen.”. Simple designs work well, and simplicity makes things happen. Jon Bergmann.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2016

Getting students to graduate remains a greater challenge: In 2014, 60 percent of students seeking a bachelor’s degree at a four-year college in 2008 completed their degrees by 2014, according to the U.S. And In April, Attorney General Maura Healey sued ITT Tech for inflating job prospect data for its computer network systems program.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. Get a question right, and the system will likely offer something more difficult or advanced. Get it wrong, and the system attempts to finds whether there’s a gap in pre-requisite knowledge, and provide review materials.

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Knewton OER Pearson Adaptive Learning 64

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow.

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Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Hard to believe Docs and Drive started back in 2008. You also get some bonus features such as an interior Google search (allowing you to look up public Docs across your domain), livestream capability to 100K users, and a synching of Google Classroom rosters to your SIS (Student Information System, such as Infinite Campus).

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

The organization’s research “aims to transform monolithic, factory-model systems into student-centered designs that educate every student successfully and enable each to realize his or her fullest potential.” The Education Program at the Christensen Institute examines K–12 and higher education issues through the lens of disruptive innovation.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

There will be some innovations to escape the limitations of locked down enterprise learning management systems, increasing use of third party services, more innovative use of mobile tech and increasing experimentation with wearable devices. On-campus Edtech. That trend will probably continue this year.

MOOC 89

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 89

eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

They’ve shrunk because there are fewer students thanks to a broader demographic decline in new births that began in 2008 and hasn’t changed. There is a growing recognition that we need to bring back career and technical education, but that it must not repeat the mistakes of vocational education, which was often a tracked system based on race.

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Trends Assessment Competency Based Learning Outcomes 109

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Domenech has served as executive director of the American Association of School Administrators since July 2008. Prior to his position at McGraw-Hill, Daniel served for seven years as superintendent of the Fairfax County, VA, Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. 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. But we’d say no.

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Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 96

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

There will be some innovations to escape the limitations of locked down enterprise learning management systems, increasing use of third party services, more innovative use of mobile tech and increasing experimentation with wearable devices. On-campus Edtech. That trend will probably continue this year.

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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

When Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn published “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008, the current wave of education technology was still finding its footing. The edtech industry has arguably seen what TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher aptly called a number of “ false dawns.” The book posited two predictions. But scale was not the endgame.

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Technology EdTech Education Outcomes 80