Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 28, 2019

Since its release in 2009, Minecraft has sold millions of copies worldwide revolutionizing thus the gaming industry and providing game players with an endless world of possibilities. As a sandbox.read more

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2022

During the initial phase of COVID-19 lockdowns, Generation Alpha (born 2010-2024) and Generation Z (born 1995-2009) had to pivot to virtual-only school platforms. Their rise has disrupted the education industry, paving a potential path towards the future of learning. The space is highly competitive and rapidly growing.

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Online Learning Learning EdTech Industry 96

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

It’s an example of the huge demand for talent in industries that include wind power and other alternative energies — and the potential labor shortage facing President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan to upgrade the country’s infrastructure , after a years-long failure to train the kinds of workers needed to do it.

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Industry Training Company System 125

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Mike Silagadze, who in 2009 co-founded Top Hat , a provider of digital courseware and textbooks for higher education, will be stepping away from the role on March 15 after serving as CEO for over a decade. What I love doing is really helping to change an industry that has been doing one thing one way for a long time,” says Rohrlich. “At

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Pearson Knewton Company Industry 148

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

They’re designed to help people kick off careers in growing industries that pay well above minimum wage. registered apprenticeship programs grew 73 percent between 2009 and 2019. And the potential for apprenticeships to diversify the tech industry is a key message that providers like Woz U and Multiverse use to market their services.

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Training Company Sony Industry 167

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2022

Since 2009, D.C. When the program was first used in 2009, it was not considered “politically credible.” About 36 percent of teachers rated “minimally effective”—about 3 percent of teachers overall—are fired, with another 16 percent leaving on their own. Public Schools have been using their “ IMPACT plus ” model for over a decade.

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Policies Survey System Assessment 162

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Since 2009, the company has developed over 50 career programs, trained and upskilled more than 70,000 individuals across the country, and partnered with over 500 American Job Centers and more than 1,000 healthcare organizations to build talent pipelines.

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Training Industry Assessment Company 60

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. Even with competition on the rise from online course providers that have moved beyond education and into corporate learning, Scivally sees plenty of growth opportunities in the industry, he says.

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Training Sony Robotics Company 106

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. Onwards and upwards!

EdTech 184

EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 184

SecurEdge

JANUARY 29, 2019

Over the past decade, the hospitality industry has become technology-driven. Deloitte’s 2019 Travel and Hospitality Industry Outlook reveals “just how much technology has shaped the travel and hospitality industry in such a relatively short time. In 2009, the first hotel and airline apps were just hitting the market.

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Industry iPad Technology 53

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

CTE can provide introductions to industries that [students] never knew existed and exposure to opportunities that they never dreamed of,” said Kindred, who has been teaching for about 17 years.

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Trends Company Meeting Industry 75

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

industry and educators at all levels to undo the stereotypes that could be costing the country some of its best and brightest future innovators. Young STEM-inclined females need role models, and to this end, “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” was established in 2009 to promote their connection with accomplished women in the STEM fields.

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STEM Resources Report Study 255

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., This knowledge helps in preparing students for a future where AI will be a significant part of many industries and professions. Teaching and Teacher Education , 74, 125-136. link] Coulter, S. New York: Macmillan Dewsbury B, Brame CJ. Inclusive Teaching.

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Schoology was founded in 2009 and has been working on data integrations with PowerSchool’s student information system as far back as 2012, Friedman adds. Friedman says both PowerSchool and Schoology are committed to supporting industry open data standards, and that “interoperability will continue to be a priority.”

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Schoology Data Haiku Learning Pearson 155

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2023

Smyers is a member of the EDUCAUSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board and has been named as one of CRN’s “Top 100 Women of the Channel” 2009–2013 and named to its advisory board. Technology is just the positive impact it is bringing to all industries, including and especially education.

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Microsoft Classroom Education Course 277

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016. Many small towns started as market towns or as small manufacturing towns in the industrial era and are now economically struggling.

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Study Survey Analysis Industry 142

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of these problems that ETS has identified—and invested in—has been popular among the edtech industry and its investors: Knack, based in Tampa, Fla. These two companies were identified through a competition that Village Capital has organized since 2009. offers an online marketplace that connects tutor with students.

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Technology EdTech Education Assessment 109

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 27, 2017

After getting on Twitter in 2009 I realized that we had to be better for our kids. James Kouzes and Barry Posner have researched the topic of leadership for over 30 years looking at thousands of leaders in a wide range of industries throughout the world. This was the case for me early on during my days as a principal.

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Examples Personal Learning Network Training Industry 183

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat has been steadily expanding its suite of tools ever since the company was founded in 2009, and in recent years has charted a course to “create the next generation of interactive courseware,” says Silagadze in an interview. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 131

Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 27, 2015

She started working in the language industry in 2009 as one-to-one language tutor in a school of languages in Rome. At our official site, 30Goals.com , find all the goals, participant reflections, badges, and get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers: Small Steps to Transform Your Classroom workbook.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 27, 2015

She started working in the language industry in 2009 as one-to-one language tutor in a school of languages in Rome. At our official site, 30Goals.com , find all the goals, participant reflections, badges, and get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers: Small Steps to Transform Your Classroom workbook.

eBook 150

eBook Video Twitter Facebook 150

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Esports, also known as competitive video game playing, have recently boomed into a billion-dollar industry, and college students are some of the biggest players. They are offering courses in marketing, communications and tournament management, all within the esports industry. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Industry Video Gamification Course 145

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2017

The figures come from a survey sponsored by The Moody’s Foundation and unveiled by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. score was down 17 points from 2009 and 20 points below the average of others taking the quiz, which saw Singapore come out on top, followed by Japan, Estonia, Finland and Canada.

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Survey Industry Learning STEM 88

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Higher Ground Education has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by Venn Growth Partners, a Toronto-based growth equity fund that invests in consumer, education and healthcare industries. There’s a counterpart for middle and high schools, called Academy of Thought and Industry. To date, the Lake Forest, Calif.-based

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Education Company Training Industry 159

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Magic Bus is a program of the Vail Valley Foundation’s YouthPower365 , and is a Winnebago Industries Specialty Vehicle – the first all-electric mobile preschool in the world. The all-electric vehicle will enable operation in a quiet, emission-free manner,” said Robert Kim, Director of the Winnebago Industries Specialty Vehicle Division.

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Mobility Industry Company Exercises 68

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

In July 2009, President Barack Obama announced an ambitious plan to boost employment by 2019. Some of the jobs that have been lost in the auto industry and elsewhere won’t be coming back,” Obama said. Sign up here for Hechinger’s higher-education newsletter. He made his announcement at a community college in Michigan.

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Industry Report Company Training 74

Hack Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

He was, after all, one of the most influential promoters of the " school-as-factory " narrative: that the origins of mass schooling are inextricably bound to the need to reshape a rebellious farming nation's sons and daughters into a docile, industrial workforce. 1) John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction , 2009.

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Industry Training System Handbook 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Founded in 2009, Schoolzilla began as an internal project of Aspire Public Schools, a charter management network in Oakland, to help educators draw actionable insights from the gargantuan bytes of data available from different technology providers. It lays claim to pioneering the “edfintech” industry.)

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Outcomes Company Analysis Data 129

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 28, 2016

Since its release in 2009, Minecraft has sold millions of copies worldwide revolutionizing thus the gaming industry and providing game players with an endless world of possibilities. As a sandbox.read more.

Industry 40

Industry Education 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. MasteryConnect was one of hundreds of edtech companies that capitalized on investors’ enthusiasm and optimism for the industry in recent years. When Reid took over, Hewitt stayed at MasteryConnect as its chief product officer.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 115

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Having been on the job for barely three months, Carnecchia, a newcomer to the education industry, says what struck him most was “the amount of pressure, competing initiatives and conflicting messages that we send to teachers. Illuminate Education was founded in 2009 and claims more than 5.4 million users across 1,600 school districts.

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Data Tools Education Company 94

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Across industries, demand for talent was booming. Higher education enrollment has traditionally been counter-cyclical , growing in difficult economic times, with the classic example being the most recent–the boom in college enrollment during the Great Recession of 2007-2009. As 2020 kicked off, the U.S.

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Coursera Training MOOC Course 119

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. For it to work, the third-party organizations that certify learning would need to offer industry standards that establish specifications for learning—much like the bodies that determine standards for USB ports.

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System Outcomes Competency Based Learning Course 108

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Some parents say even well-resourced programs backed by titans of the tech industry will only make a limited difference without broader interventions. In 2009, at the subway station, local transit police shot 22-year-old Oscar Grant, an event many consider to have started the Black Lives Matter movement.

Industry 135

Industry STEM Education Survey 135

EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Magoosh is fixing a broken test prep industry. Magoosh started in 2009 with four co-founders and a few computers. MCAT Curriculum Manager at Magoosh (View all jobs). . About Magoosh. Why should students have to put up with exorbitant prices for boring test prep classes and books that might not even work?

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Study Video Industry Company 100

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

September 7, 2015 Since its release in 2009, Minecraft has sold millions of copies worldwide revolutionizing thus the gaming industry and providing game players with an endless world of.read more.

Industry 40

Industry Education Resources 40

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2017

If students are truly “customers,” as some developers of higher-ed tools services have argued, then it’s no surprise that the biggest customer relationship management (CRM) provider is throwing its hat—and money—into the education industry. To date, Viridis has raised nearly $7.5 million of venture capital (the last coming in a $3.2

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Software Training Data Industry 77