eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company began 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. SplashLearn was incorporated in 2010. Patel Managing Director, Owl Ventures , who would be joining the company’s board along with Abhinav Chaturvedi. “We About Accel.

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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Mobile, mobile: The rise of mobile technology as a powerful platform for learning experiences could benefit educators tremendously.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010. To address this glaring crisis, we need nothing short of a large-scale public-private mobilization to provide the infrastructure, the funding, and the hardware (wi-fi routers, laptops, hotspots) to students in low-income communities.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

I want to see this built, but I don’t want to run a company,” Bergman tells EdSurge. The company already has a technology platform and, more importantly, school customers, which will help deliver his text nudges at scale. The company recently raised $3.5 In other words, he gets to keep being a researcher. “We

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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. NG) This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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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.

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The Game Agency

MARCH 5, 2019

Generation Z refers to the group born between 1995 and 2010 and currently represents the largest population sector. Is your company ready? Here are 5 ways to get your company prepared: 1. Are they all optimized for mobile? What about company information- organization charts, handbooks, compliance information, etc.

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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. This dichotomy is not lost on investors.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 16, 2012

webOS is the slickest mobile OS in terms of user interface and multi-tasking. For mobile use, I use my Android smartphone, an HTC Droid Incredible 2 , most of the time and then use my TouchPad for some things. I also think that their products are over hyped and over priced for what they do. I have no need or desire to use it.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Five edtech companies emerged recently from Boston's LearnLaunch accelerator, tackling issues that include learning to code, hiring and collecting social emotional data. For instance, using its iNoted system , the company pings school users with questions such as "Today, how much did adults who work in your school treat students with respect?”

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. The company is no longer as high-profile—or as big—as it once was. What have the past years taught him, and where is the company going? And I would say Amplify is increasingly a curriculum company.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

MOBILE, Ala. We’re going to finish up our robotics badge by making a toothbrush robot,” she announced to four fellow members of Mobile, Alabama’s Girl Scout Troop 8274 in June. million in 2010 to 1.7 In Mobile, the reconnections were faulty — the electrical ones, that is. million members said.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 24, 2011

At the 2010 Virtual School Symposium sponsored by iNACOL it was clear that blended instruction is quickly becoming a viable instructional option as many states adopt seat-waver initiatives. Media companies are slowly realizing the demand for streaming services and are opening their vaults to services such as Netflix, but at a hefty price.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google is being accused of invading the privacy of students using laptop computers powered by the internet company’s Chrome operating system. The complaint contends Google’s storage and analysis of the student profile violates a “Student Privacy Pledge” that the company signed last year.

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The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Learning in Hand ( Tony Vincent ) Tony''s blog is dedicated to harnessing the power of mobile devices in educational setting. The last post that I read was on the cool gadgets that he picked up in 2010. He is also very responsive to anyone who has questions regarding mobile devices in the classroom. It''s quite a list!

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

In 2010, Northern Arizona University began using a math placement test for incoming students and found many of them struggled to achieve needed proficiency. The awards focus on underrepresented students because college remains our country’s greatest driver of socioeconomic mobility,” Barajas-Murphy says. Much like Fulé did.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Microsoft’s cloud service, Azure, doesn’t fall too far behind, having launched in 2010 and doing business with GE Healthcare and DocuSign. Birman says he expects students to develop major products, many of which go on to launch as product companies. acknowledges the trend in students founding startup companies out of college.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I was watching a video that you did from a Ted Talk a while ago, back in 2010, and you were talking about transforming higher education institutions by getting conservative institutions to embrace technology. They're run by for-profit companies; the two largest are publicly traded. They're free to the students and the families.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 17, 2010

2014 update to 2010 post on paper.li: Educators are using paper.li SmallRivers is the Swiss-based company that created paper.li. tag/mlearning The #mlearning Daily (mobile) paper.li/tag/musedchat to share their Twitter content in a daily (twice-daily, or weekly) interactive newspaper. Papers that curate hashtags: paper.li/tag/artsed

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

After unsuccessfully approaching several major internet companies, the district decided to take matters into its own hands. Today, students are even able to access assignments on their mobile devices. Graduation rates rose from 69 percent in 2010-11 to 90 percent in 2017-18. High school senior Connor Dunbar.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 30, 2012

We did a few school presentations in Boise and Twin Falls, presented at CUE in Palm Springs in 2010, and that has been the extent of our marketing and zero advertising." Sixteen years to the day later, Terry signed the papers and sold the company (which had grown to 10 stores). We actually launched the site in July of 2008.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. By 2012 – yes, thanks to its hardware business – Apple’s stock had risen to the point that the company was worth a record-breaking $624 billion. But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. Instead of paying money to support people to go to college, this program would pay people to forgo college and instead jump right into building an ambitious company or organization.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 28, 2011

On this occasion, in October, with the weather mild and bearable (I was last in Barcelona in July 2010 when the temperature was extreme) I was invited to keynote the Open University of Barcelona's 8th international conference on teacher training.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

It allows companies to pay employees via direct deposit, and for you to pay others via mobile apps or online banking services. Over the next month, the EdSurge Research team will be profiling companies about how they think, plan, and guide their product development process to address these needs. Lexia Learning.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

His 2010 book was called What Technology Wants , as though technology is a living being with desires and drives; the title of his 2016 book, The Inevitable. Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For more ideas, check out the previous guides: 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009 — or share your favorite gifts with us in the comments! But some lesser-known companies make nice speakers that sound good and are quite affordable. Some of these can get quite pricey, especially when you’re paying for a name (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

to go too far from the mobile home park where she’s grown up in Conover, North Carolina, when she goes to college. It’s less than four miles from the Paradise Valley Mobile Home Park, where the Cantus and other mostly Hispanic Catholic families live. Maria Cantu (l.) doesn’t want her daughter Janeth (r.) Photo: Jesse Pratt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The first year was 2010. In her consulting life, she has led CoSN’s Leadership for Mobile Learning initiative, developed strategic plans and content for companies, provided professional development coaching to school districts, and presented at numerous conferences. It started eight years ago.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

The National School Board Association named him one of 2010’s “Twenty to Watch,” a list honoring individuals finding innovative ways to use technology to increase classroom learning. Dembo was also a featured panelist at Nokia Open Labs as an expert on mobile device integration in education. Blog: [link]. Twitter: @teach42.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

www.libraryvision.org Closing Panel Jesús Gerena Managing Partner, Family Independence Initiative (FII) Jesús Gerena joined FII in 2010, bringing more than 15 years of experience as a community organizer. Amy holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

www.libraryvision.org Closing Panel Jesús Gerena Managing Partner, Family Independence Initiative (FII) Jesús Gerena joined FII in 2010, bringing more than 15 years of experience as a community organizer. Amy holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2021

VARs will be able to leverage a unified support infrastructure for products across both company product lines. Bosch Building Technologies has been a part of the LenelS2 OAAP since 2010. . . Our technology includes web-based and mobile applications enhanced by cloud-based services. About LenelS2.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. percent of new mobile computing device shipments in U.S. A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. And determined.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

African-Americans and Latino/Hispanics make up a tiny fraction of the overwhelmingly white, male-dominated workforce of major technology companies. based technology companies is African-American or Latino/Hispanic, and only one is a woman—Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM. The Startling Stats Between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of U.S.

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