Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

Going forward, as part of JFF, the fund may take equity stakes in future portfolio companies, although it may still structure some deals as debt financing, which means recipients repay the principal, with interest, in the future. Kerszenbaum hopes the nonprofit can bring more resources to support his portfolio companies. It spent $43.5

Technology 98

Technology Company Policies Training 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Each company received $75,000 from Village Capital and $50,000 from ETS. billion in revenues in 2017, ETS claims to be the largest assessment provider in the world, involved in delivering more than 50 million tests across over 180 countries every year. million in 2017. With more than $1.3

Technology 106

Technology EdTech Education Assessment 106

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

Knewton 125

Knewton Company OER Pearson 125

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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Company Pearson Course Software 93

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For the third time this year, an American education technology company is laying claim to the magical “unicorn” status. To date, company has raised $138 million. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company.

Coursera 86

Coursera Company Mobility Exercises 86

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. To date, the San Francisco-based company has raised about $140 million. are now 20 percent.”

Coursera 88

Coursera Company Learning Analysis 88

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For her Schoolzilla company to continue to grow, it needed a larger sales division. based company up for acquisition talks. Schoolzilla, the company perhaps best known for its Mosaic dashboard product, has found a new home with Renaissance Learning , a Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc. The company claims to service a third of U.S.

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Data Assessment Company Learning 75

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. Given their respective footprints in the U.S. and Canada.

Schoology 86

Schoology LMS Moodle Haiku Learning 86

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But when funding dries up and profits remain elusive, companies have to make tough cuts. Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. He adds: “As a venture-funded company, there’s been a decision to get to profitability in the next nine to 12 months.”

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Ox years are: 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021 3. 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017, 2029), legend has it that you are a person who is well organized, likes to work according to well-planned schedules, and you do your best to succeed at whatever you do. If you were born in the Rooster year (e.,

Mobile Learning 91

Mobile Learning Mobility Groups Company 91

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. Based Company. Authess $2.2

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EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 94

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

She emailed the company to learn that it was not. “It A company spokesperson wrote via email that “after a thorough review of TenMarks, we’ve made the difficult decision to no longer offer this service after June 30, 2019.” But the company gave no indication that it would close shop. It had raised about $4.8

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The Thinking Stick

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2009 I set up a camera to UStream our COETAIL session live from Bangkok as we had two virtual participants. In my opening keynote this year to educators I talk about that collaboration means in 2017 and beyond. However, in 2017 we need to make sure we’re also teaching students how to collaborate across time and space.

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Trends Survey Company Meeting 54

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But there’s another number that also has the company excited. The company has now raised $32 million in total. Founded in 2005, Quizlet is probably best known for its digital flashcards, built by a then-high schooler, Andrew Sutherland, who is still with the company as its chief technology officer. Today, U.S.

Study 78

Study Tools Company Analysis 78

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

The company says it’s making these available to any “teaching-focused institution that grants degrees or certificates,” including non-traditional bootcamp-style coding programs. million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms.

Industry 88

Industry Tools Microsoft Software 88

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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Company Video Broadband Report 91

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education. The 10 groups presenting Wednesday were the accelerator’s second cohort, and 14 companies have gone through the program so far.

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Khan Academy Company Adobe Data 75

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Now, the Salt Lake City-based company is back to growing—this time, on the right track, its current CEO Mick Hewitt insists—with the help of a new funding round. This latest round brings the company’s fundraising total to more than $34 million. The company currently claims more than 2.5 Today, MasteryConnect announced a $4.5

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Company Assessment EdTech iPad 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

This staffing figure is through 2017, the most recent year available, and includes a 16 percent jump in the number of administrators and support personnel — a perennial target of critics — but also a 7 percent increase in the number of full-time faculty. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2

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Industry Report Trends Survey 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Under one such approach, the staffing model, learners are employees of a client company. Andela , a startup that trains coders in Africa and hires them out to tech companies around the world, pays a salary to its learners. 2009 Bachelors $40K = $10K/yr @ 4 yrs. 2017 Associates or Bachelors $11-16.5K = $5.5K/year

Outcomes 120

Outcomes Training System Company 120

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

The experimental institution, called Quest to Learn , opened its doors in 2009 and became the subject of many books and articles. was the creation of a network of game-based learning researchers, developers and educators who will continue their work at other companies and organizations. A 2017 survey of 1,550 U.S.

Game-Based Learning 143

Game-Based Learning Pearson Training Report 143

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Transcript: Tuesday, August 29, 2017. Michelle Zimmerman, PhD, has taught all grades from Pre-K through 10th within the past 17 years, with a focus on middle and high school since 2009. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

EdTech 190

EdTech Learning STEM Microsoft 190

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

Online Learning 65

Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 65

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This encore episode is the number fourteen episode of 2017 on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast. He was recognized as Illinois Teacher of the Year in 2007, and as the recipient of the NEA’s National Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Teach better. Listen Now.

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Company Classroom System Training 195

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

Los propietarios, quienes contratan a un gran número de trabajadores agrícolas en la localidad, construyeron el campus de $29 millones en el año 2017. Lynda Resnick, propietaria de The Wonderful Company, refiriéndose a las escuelas chárter que fundó junto a su esposo en Central Valley, California. Este es mi legado.”.

Company 85

Company Report Google Education 85

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

Alduha Leon takes a quick break while setting up for the travel party he and his business partner hosted in Adair Park in Atlanta on Saturday night, July 29, 2017. In 2009, state appropriations made up 61 percent of the general funding for USG institutions, while tuition accounted for nearly a third of it. Georgia State Sen.

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Policies Report Study Data 61

techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

Launched in 2009, Discovery Education’s Techbooks are digital textbooks for science, social studies and math that are aligned to rigorous standards, support a comprehensive curriculum, and are updated regularly at no cost. million students in the 2016-2017 school year. Inspired by the global media company Discovery Inc.,

Social Media 40

Social Media Education Professional Learning Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.

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Report Study Software Meeting 64

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While there’s still a significant racial gap in educational achievement, the proportion of Black students nationwide who graduated from high school on time rose from 66 percent in 2009-10 to 79 percent in 2017-18 , the last period for which the figures are available from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Survey 140

Survey Laptops Dropout Report 140

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One way is through acquisitions like the one his university made of the Claremont School of Theology in California, or CST, which is being moved to the Salem, Oregon, campus of Willamette, just as private companies consolidate to increase their size and cost-effectiveness. That’s a good reach-out by the universities, no question.

Dropout 73

Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 73

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. 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. Companies saw a business opening to soak up these foundation grants.

Data 107

Data Dropout Company Report 107

The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Communicate, communicate, communicate” ( AIR, 2017 ). Certificate Level : For those that are independent learners but also want company on their journey. This has been a focus of ours ever since we started our first micro-credential (even though that’s not what it was called at the time) in 2009. Start small.

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Course Online Learning Report Blended Learning 58

MindShift

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s gold in them thar cubes: More than 120 million copies have sold since Minecraft launched in 2009.*. Copyright 2017 NPR. So what’s behind the game’s enduring appeal? For Isiah Hammonds, 9, it’s all about the creative potential every time you fire up your computer. from developers Mojang in 2014.

Microsoft 53

Microsoft Industry Accessibility Study 53

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Instructors Kyle Garvin and Hannah Balagot, both professional theater performers, teach choreography to students at Yung Wing School.

Dropout 76

Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 76

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111