Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

Industry 150

Industry Conference EdTech Student Data Privacy 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

That’s so 2010. Their hope is that these programs will help pave the way toward the kind of supportive environment that education technology companies need to survive. Edtech startup incubators? That’s the conclusion reached by Barbara (“Bobbi”) Kurshan, a long-time veteran of the education technology world. She earned an Ed.D.

EdTech 121

EdTech Company Software Secondary 121

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.” billion in U.S.

EdTech 114

EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 114

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Then a couple weeks later came the hangover: the company board said it had uncovered evidence of financial misconduct and would abruptly shut down the company. John McIntire, who is chairman of Yogome’s board, is currently acting CEO of the company and overseeing the liquidation of assets. Another 10 staff based in the U.S.

Company 88

Company Education Report Analysis 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In its 48-year history, Curriculum Associates has acquired only one company. His company’s flagship digital product, i-Ready , is a K-8 math and literacy tool used by nearly 15 percent of K-8 students across the country. “I The two companies have had on-and-off conversations about partnership opportunities since 2012.

Company 93

Company Chromebook Learning Gamification 93

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. billion in global annual revenue by 2010, helped immeasurably by hard work and acquisitions. billion in 2010.

Kaplan 158

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 158

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services. 31 that year). million in the previous fiscal year to $3.2

Kaplan 64

Kaplan Common Core Education Company 64

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. Census Bureau 2016; U.S. And this is just online.

Udemy 80

Udemy Coursera Company Training 80

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Among college students who graduated between 2010 and 2016, 61 percent visited their institutions’ career services office as students, the highest percentage in any decade since as far back as the 1940s, according to Gallup , a research and analytics company. Related: What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

Social Media 108

Social Media Survey Report Company 108

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. The company has also begun partnering with other companies such as Pearson and Microsoft. Writing tools are particularly interesting to the company. Ramireze said.

Chegg 67

Chegg Tools Pearson EdTech 67

ProfHacker

DECEMBER 12, 2016

2016 has been a difficult year, and in the spirit of moving forward you’ll notice lots of suggestions centered around giving not only to those close to us but to larger causes and projects that need support. But some lesser-known companies make nice speakers that sound good and are quite affordable. Bose, Beats) as well as a speaker.

Tablets 40

Tablets iPad Mobility Company 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. 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). Yet that’s not all.

Symantec 70

Symantec Kaplan Company EdTech 70

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022) are associated with these attributes: courage, ambition, enthusiasm, generosity, self-confidence, commitment to help others, altruism, sociability, and audacity. The Ox years are: 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021 3. If you were born in the Goat year (e.g.,1931,

Mobile Learning 91

Mobile Learning Mobility Groups Company 91

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. Through a 2010 collaboration with Gisele Huff from the Jacquelin Hume Foundation and Michael B. Ideally, the company works with district leadership for a minimum of 18 months.

Education Elements 60

Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

That issue led to a class-action lawsuit and settlement involving General Assembly and two former instructors, who alleged that the New York City-based education company misclassified them as independent contractors. But it resurfaces disputes that have become increasingly commonplace among companies that rely on contract labor.

Company 87

Company Industry Course Survey 87

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support companies involved in teaching and learning. In 2016, Lumina launched a venture capital arm to make direct investments in education companies. These typically are nonprofit organizations.

Company 142

Company Industry Competency Based Learning Examples 142

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.

Chromebook 190

Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. After a dip in dealflow and venture capital to U.S.

EdTech 91

EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 91

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Computing devices and 1:1 programs are far more prevalent now than in 2010. Introduced in 2010, iPads spurred Dumbo Drops of tablet tech into classrooms. But Microsoft later bought the teacher-created MinecraftEdu mod, rebuilt it and relaunched it in 2016 as Minecraft: Education Edition. Open digital badges.

EdTech 156

EdTech iPad Chromebook Industry 156

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Financial details in transactions between private companies rarely see the public light. In the suit, BrightBytes claimed Hapara broke “no-shop” and confidentiality clauses to solicit a better offer from another company. The suit has been settled, and both companies are now charting independent paths.

Hapara 70

Hapara Company Industry EdTech 70

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Perhaps it is because of the myth of the entrepreneur that resounds throughout popular culture: examples like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who both dropped out of college, and in doing so, seemingly spurned education in order to build major tech companies—and yet now each have education initiatives of their own. Blackboard Inc.,

Education 78

Education LMS Moodle EdTech 78

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. And then in 2015 or 2016, my assistant says, “Hey, this company wants to meet. My oldest son, who’s 12 now, was born in 2009, and he kind of grew up on it. I’m a big fan.”

Khan Academy 163

Khan Academy Learning Meeting Company 163

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

The “Netflix for education” analogy has become somewhat of a cliché for edtech companies using student data to recommend anything from courses to textbooks. Overall student graduation rates rose from 31 percent in 2010 to 36 percent in 2014, for example. Private companies also took notice. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — percent to 33.8

Course 98

Course Data System Company 98

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

Ara Austin And so starting around 2016, academic leaders in the university’s School of Molecular Sciences decided to experiment with offering rigorous biochemistry programs to remote students — complete with hands-on lab experiences. She had enrolled at ASU right after high school, back in 2010.

Accessibility 171

Accessibility STEM Study Course 171

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. There are still a handful of timber companies in Onalaska, but the timber industry in Washington has been declining since World War II. Kinsman graduated in 2016. Census data.

Company 111

Company Report Trends Study 111

techlearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The company partners with schools to provide online monitoring software that can alert instructors or administrators if it detects students typing or searching for certain keywords related to sexting, cyberbullying, radicalization, self-harm and more. Impero’s new offices will be located at 823 Congress Avenue.

Software 40

Software Digital Citizenship Handbook Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

Formerly part of the Nakajima Aircraft Company, the building houses classrooms and the Institute for Educational Research and Service. million students, from 2010 through this year. high school graduates heading straight to college has been going down , from a high of 70 percent in 2016. universities and colleges, Inaba says.

Report 142

Report Study Strategy Trends 142

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

One high-profile version of this type of event occurred in Newark back in 2010, after Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg gave a matching $100 million-dollar donation to the New Jersey school district. As soon as the money pours in, much of it ends up in the hands of consultants offering expert advice to school officials.

Personalized Learning 120

Personalized Learning Education Elements Learning Outcomes 120

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

According to the Edcamp website, since 2010 there have been over 700 events in 25 countries. JAMF has an active and responsive online forum where educators who are managing iPads for kindergarten students are sharing practices with and asking questions of IT administrators who are managing enterprise deployments in Fortune 500 companies.

Edcamps 60

Edcamps iPad Industry Groups 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The district partners with more than 60 companies, adminstrators say, many in the Boulder-Longmont area. LONGMONT, Colo. —

STEM 106

STEM Report Robotics Company 106

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Conversations leading up to this handover began in July 2016, when the team decided that “running SWEDU internally was not allowing us to support our community in the best way possible,” Cambria Skvarka, the nonprofit’s director of community and idea development, tells EdSurge in an interview.

Education 60

Education Company Resources Course 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Since 2010, venture capitalists have poured more than $2.3 billion in companies building education products, but this is a far cry below the money invested in other markets like computers and software, $115.7 billion respectively in the second quarter of 2016 alone. More investors are trying to fill the gap. billion and $8.7

Education 60

Education Conference Outcomes Assessment 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

based company today announced it’s raised a $4 million seed round led by Osage Venture Partners, with participation from New Markets Venture Partners, 500 Startups and others. Noodle Partners landed its first customer, Pepperdine University, in March 2016, and the company will launch 10 more online degree programs this spring.

Company 60

Company Pearson Industry Outcomes 60

techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

These are important tasks and I look forward to working with the company as we move forward with this work both in the UK, and the U.S.” In 2010, Walters was awarded membership in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to educational publishing.

Software 40

Software Digital Citizenship Handbook Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. Some companies are helping create what they’re looking for in suburbs.

STEM 72

STEM Company Study Report 72

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Around 2010, when the U.S. Additional funding came from community donors and companies themselves, like GE Power, which contributed $500,000. Since opening its doors in September 2016, CMI regularly hosts field trips for students to see the kinds of learning and technology Greenville offers.

Robotics 73

Robotics Industry Company Training 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company. classrooms.

iPad 85

iPad Broadband Software Company 85