edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Rural school districts face many unique trials, and access to educational technology is no different. But in order to take advantage of edtech, they first need broadband access. Telecom companies often forget about rural areas because they don’t have high population density. But the obstacles aren’t just about location.

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Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Elementary 54

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Across the globe, that figure surpassed $16 billion , marking a 32-fold increase from 2010. Remote learning has also exposed and exacerbated socioeconomic divides, resulting in uneven access to educational resources (especially for families that still can’t get online ). But if the company succeeds, there can be a big payday.

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EdTech Company Industry Microsoft 154

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computers were still housed in labs or on carts, but one-to-one computing and internet accessibility were hot topics. They were the most powerful companies in education. They bought other companies to try to blend assessment and curriculum as they also continued publishing. Clearly, a lot has changed over the last decade.

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Data Education Company Blended Learning 123

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We want entrepreneurs to be able to leverage that expertise.This year, we started offering semifinalists and finalists access to a series of Catalyst bootcamps and webinars that gave entrepreneurs a foundation in fundamentals, such as sales, marketing, fundraising and legal issues. Do we still need this type of competition? Absolutely.

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EdTech Education Mobility Company 134

SpeechTechie

JULY 20, 2022

When the iPad came out in 2010, I was skeptical. First of all Chromebooks made accessing the web and Google productivity apps cheap and easy for schools. Interactivity and No-BS access. Similarly, many web resources charge subscription fees for full access. It seemed like a big iPhone and I wasn't sure it would take off.

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iPad Laptops Chromebook iPhone 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In 2002, a critical transition occurred when 94 percent of public schools secured always-on broadband connections, granting educators and students increased access to rich media content.

EdTech 129

EdTech Outcomes Data Education 129

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today it has been selected for the GSV (Global Silicon Valley) 150, a list of the world’s most transformative private companies in education. Not only do we embrace change, we create it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. Extending access to education technology beyond schools is also key. Whereas the U.S.

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Technology EdTech Education Mobility 151

Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. She co-founded edtech company LangInnov to address what she saw as a gap in the market for assessing Latino children’s reading abilities. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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System Technology EdTech Education 134

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.

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Industry Conference EdTech Student Data Privacy 165

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. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 163

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010. The conversation has quickly shifted from whether technology should be used in learning to how we can use it to improve learning and ensure that all students have access to high-quality educational experiences. Consider this: 1 in 4 U.S.

EdTech 144

EdTech Digital Divide Learning Social Media 144

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.

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Company Chromebook Learning Gamification 106

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Since its debut in 2010, the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC) has awarded about $1 million to edtech entrepreneurs. Each will automatically get free access to our bootcamps and the opportunity to be showcased at Catalyst events. EdSurge: What distinguishes the EBPC from other business plan contests?

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EdTech Company Microsoft Outcomes 143

eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In 2010, the General Assembly of Georgia enacted the Bridge Bill, which was passed to ensure that Georgia’s 6th – 12th grade students were made aware of available college and career options. “I am delighted that today’s students, and future ones, will have access to the YouScience solution.”

System 52

System Industry Assessment Company 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

education grant offering free credits for its cloud platform, with no credit card required, unlimited access to its suite of tools and training resources. Microsoft’s cloud service, Azure, doesn’t fall too far behind, having launched in 2010 and doing business with GE Healthcare and DocuSign. Google in June announced an.

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Microsoft Accessibility Google Khan Academy 60

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Access early black Friday deals from now through November 27, 2022. In 2002, Jon received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching; and in 2010, he was a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. Learn about this method of curriculum development and teaching and see if it is right for you.

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Handbook Flipped Classroom Learning Competency Based Learning 436

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 203

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2017

From 1980 until 2010, we experienced a 500 percent growth in incarceration. Based upon the 2010 study, I founded a company (IDS), which began putting tablets containing academic and vocational courses into jails and prisons. No one grows up wanting to go to jail or prison. The average stay is 5 years. I’ll let you do the math.

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Tablets Education Analysis Training 84

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. The check sizes vary depending on which stage a company is in.

Company 154

Company Industry Competency Based Learning Examples 154

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. in February 2019.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

Except that Ashford’s parent company will end up paying millions to Arizona to make it happen, leading New America’s Kevin Carey, the group’s director of education policy programs, to argue in a widely shared Tweet that “it’s not really a purchase at all.” percent of the revenue from the campus with Zovio, the company that owned Ashford.

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Kaplan Company Report Trends 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

These devices accelerated the unbundling of content so that students can directly access leveled news articles on Newsela, or their favorite book on Epic. Computing devices and 1:1 programs are far more prevalent now than in 2010. That doesn’t mean every student has access to a device all the time. Open digital badges.

EdTech 176

EdTech iPad Chromebook Industry 176

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

The company already offers premium pricing for schools and other organizations with multiple users.) For Laurie York, who’s created 82 padlets since first using the tool in 2010, the initial response was “disappointment.” Education companies change pricing models , or simply close shop at a whim. The company has raised $1.6

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Company EdTech STEM Industry 117

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

But unlike conventional tuition-reimbursement benefits, which many companies eliminated during the recession, the new programs increasingly limit students to taking courses from specific providers — often for-profit and online universities and colleges with poor graduation rates. One company saved $1.29

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Company Course Report Survey 40

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Investors who are fond of analogies and comparisons to consumer technology successes are betting on one New York City-based company to find out. Founded in 2010, Skillshare initially offered an online platform for users to find and teach in-person classes. Of that amount, $8 million was raised as debt (and the rest was equity funding).

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Udemy lynda.com Company Course 78

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Here’s how the attendee demographics have grown from 2010 to 2018. How powerful would it be if a CEO who just sold his company for a million dollars got on the microphone and said: ‘I worked really hard for this. Under Clifford, the company has made a dozen acquisitions that greatly expanded Frontline’s product suite.

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Company Conference Pearson Industry 120

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 101

Social Media Survey Report Company 101

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

In particular, many students, for whom these efforts intend to protect, are still unaware of their rights when it comes to how their online footprints are tracked—whether by third-party companies or sometimes the school districts themselves. The concerns raised in the report are not hypothetical nor without merit.

Social Media 128

Social Media Student Data Privacy Facebook Data 128

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Employees pay $1 a day to participate, and the company covers “tuition, books and fees,” according to an explanation of the program on the retail giant’s website. Gallagher says that past studies show that about five percent of employees take advantage of tuition benefits by companies. Walmart, the largest private employer in the U.S.,

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Study Pearson E-rate Training 114

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. In 2010, I completed an MA in Applied Linguistics with a certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) as well as earning an ELL (English Language Learner) endorsement for K-8 students.

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Meeting Elementary Training Common Core 0

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

have more than tripled in the last ten years, with 69% of employers struggling to fill positions, up from just 14% in 2010. million people, resulting in the loss of trillions of dollars in economic opportunity for companies. According to a 2021 ManpowerGroup survey, talent shortages in the U.S.

STEM 52

STEM Report Industry Assessment 52

Educational Technology Guy

MAY 16, 2012

Lack of Flash is still an issue as I can''t access some web sites I use in my Physics classes. Luckily, Discovery Education has an app so I can access their stuff. Both Apple and Android need to look at webOS cards for the way to truly multi-task. The button. I really miss the back button from Android and the back gesture from webOS.

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Android iPhone iPad Tablets 163

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

In 2010, Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Some members of Congress who had supported the legislation began to criticize government intrusion into schools, and food companies that became fearful of falling profits began to lobby for delaying the changes.

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Guidelines Study Report Company 199

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black. Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research.

Industry 129

Industry Elementary Education Robotics 129

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

At its peak in 2010, the dominant for-profit, the University of Phoenix, boasted an enrollment of more than 470,000 students, nearly four times as much as the largest of the current so-called mega-universities. But the Scorecard will still be incomplete, as it will count only those students who receive federal financial aid.

Outcomes 121

Outcomes Comparison Report Survey 121

The 21st Century Principal

JULY 16, 2016

I have been an Evernote user and a premium user since May of 2010, and I have often blogged about its capabilities as note taking software. In a blog post (see "Changes to Evernote's Pricing Plans" ) the company claims that it "doesn't take change to our pricing model lightly, and we never take you for granted." I certainly hope so.

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Software Company Microsoft Education 40