Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 Of that figure, about $12.3

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LMS Assessment Company Comparison 112

eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

— 7 Mindsets , the leader in PreK-12 mindsets-based learning and well-being solutions, today announced the formation of 7M Cares, an initiative that will expand the company’s philanthropic impact. ROSWELL, Ga. 7M Cares will offer support to charitable organizations and causes that embrace mindset-based youth empowerment.

Company 79

Company Training Assessment Student Engagement 79

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. The newest addition comes courtesy of Schoology, a K-12 learning management system provider that PowerSchool announced it was buying last month.

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Schoology Data Haiku Learning Pearson 153

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Each company received $75,000 from Village Capital and $50,000 from ETS. ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams. And ETS contracts with OECD, which creates the global education assessment benchmark test known as PISA. With more than $1.3 With more than $1.3 million in 2017.

Technology 106

Technology EdTech Education Assessment 106

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2023

As educators, we're at the forefront of this exciting (and scary) change with unprecedented learning opportunities (and threats.) Whether you're new to AI or a seasoned AI-enthusiast, you'll gain invaluable insights into one of the companies on the forefront of AI in education. Districts just do incredible things with early on.

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Microsoft Classroom Education Course 276

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 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

PowerSchool has reached an agreement to acquire Schoology, a provider of learning management systems with a sizable footprint among K-12 schools and districts. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Haiku has since been rebranded as PowerSchool Learning. Haiku has since been rebranded as PowerSchool Learning.

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Schoology LMS Moodle Haiku Learning 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But it boasts a voracious appetite when it comes to ingesting education data and, now, another company. The company has raised $1 million in venture funding since launching in June 2014. In 2013, Schoolzilla spun off as an independent company, and currently serves over 100 school systems across more than 25 states.

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Outcomes Company Analysis Data 130

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.”

EdTech 114

EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 114

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract.

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Khan Academy IXL Learning Company Software 110

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In 2011, the company launched myON as a digital service with roughly 1,000 digital titles on the platform. Much of the momentum behind myON’s launch was spurred by the popularity of iPads, recalls Todd Brekhus, myON’s President, who joined Capstone in 2009 to expand its digital offerings. Capstone provides the rest.)

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Pearson Company EdTech Libraries 65

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

For $295, this all-inclusive event (except for hotel and travel) is an amazing opportunity to learn. If every student learned as fast as they possibly could, they’d all move at different paces, and accomplish things as quickly as they can. Vicki: So we need to personalize learning. There’s a great deal of self-paced learning.

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Khan Academy Elementary Company Personalized Learning 165

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

Company 60

Company Assessment EdTech iPad 60

EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Magoosh started in 2009 with four co-founders and a few computers. Possess a deep understanding of the MCAT, the content it assesses, and the structure of its questions. To learn more about our hiring process, check out this blog post. Magoosh is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

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Study Video Industry Company 100

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 100

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. prefer instructional formats that produce inferior learning outcomes.

Education 60

Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. On days when SpaRRk Academy students are learning virtually, the classrooms are empty except for teachers and administrators, who come into the office just about every day.

Elementary 96

Elementary Online Learning Report Personalized Learning 96

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report.

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

The news came as a surprise to educational game developers and researchers, many of whom credit the Institute of Play for supporting and growing the game-based learning industry. If there was a project involving games and learning, chances were good that the institute had a hand in it. educational institutions. At the time, Tekinba?

Game-Based Learning 146

Game-Based Learning Pearson Training Report 146

Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To address the skills gap in fresh hires, many companies are forced to invest in lengthy training programmes. Postgraduate enrolments have more than doubled since 2009-10. We need to invest in faculty research, as well as education technology that helps teachers invest in improving teaching-learning and research.

Education 92

Education System Report Industry 92

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2014

While these qualities may seem like frills, they’ve been demonstrated over time to have powerful correlations with harder metrics, like a company’s profits or a school’s test scores. As the saying goes, “Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions.”

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Survey Study Data Student Engagement 102

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2014

February 2009: Bellevue, Washington. When Ben Slivka decided to create his own interactive learning software in 2006, the online options for students, parents, and teachers were pretty bleak. But digital learning doesn’t work that way. Succeeding at personalized learning made an impression on Slivka.

Software 66

Software Education Microsoft Company 66

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

EdTech 120

EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student?

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Conference Kaplan Learning Libraries 36

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. However, his formative assessments have a twist — students are all answering DIFFERENT math questions. You do not need iPads to implement and learn from this research. Opening Graphic.

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iPad Assessment Moodle Company 223

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Many encounter unspeakable trauma and abuse before they’ve learned to walk or read. The older the kids get, the smaller the doorway is to learning. Bihner learned this during a home visit from TIP staff, who use the opportunity to share insights, strategies and observations they’ve made about a child.

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Training Classroom Report Groups 176

The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It is long-term embedded learning with a Master Teacher. This is the reason when school districts contact us at Eduro Learning to help teachers understand the changing nature of teaching and learning in a connected classroom, the first thing we tell them is: It takes time. Now you can have the same experience online.

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Course Online Learning Report Blended Learning 58

techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

(June 25, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional learning for K-12 classrooms, today announced that upcoming enhancements to its award-winning Techbook series will help educators maximize instructional time by making engaging digital content even more accessible to teachers and students.

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Social Media Education Professional Learning Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning. Whaaaaaat?!”.

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Report Study Software Meeting 67

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.”

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2012

Help kids leverage all of the resources available to them as they assess where they are and what they want. When students move outside of the classroom, they have to apply what they learn. 2009 - Meeting of the Minds - important work from Common Sense Media on perceptions of social media ethics.

Social Media 60

Social Media Digital Citizenship Education Company 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Octavio Gutierrez works with a group of students learning English, giving them a preview of what their fluent peers will learn later. And its poor Hispanic students and students still learning English performed much better than similar kids statewide. It’s also abut extended learning time for students that need to catch up.”.

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Common Core Elementary Groups Robotics 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. In 2009, Mike was selected by the Marth Holden Jennings Foundation as the Ohio Superintendent of the Year.

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Conference Education Groups Industry 41

Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

" But the answers to that question are, of course, bound up in our beliefs and practices and expectations, in our assessments of what "preparedness" even means. Bush famously said in 2000, "Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" So no, Khan Academy did not invent "personalized learning."

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 140

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 11, 2011

. #1 Wish for Improvement: Professors Who Participate in Conversations About Subject Matter I believe the program would have been vastly improved if the professors were more actively involved in the learning experiences of students. Interaction between students and instructors is a key component of pedagogy and learning. #2

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LMS Course Conference Assessment 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

We''ll be talking about Mozilla''s Open Badges project , the issues around recognizing skills and achievements that happen outside of traditional learning institutions, and the HASTAC Badges Competition: Badges For Lifelong Learning. Valve , the company behind the video game hit Portal, is working on an educational game.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43