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4 Ways Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Earn Trust and Unlock New Opportunities With Education Customers

Edsurge

The broader post-secondary landscape, including higher education and workforce development, has also quickly embraced online learning and up-skilling opportunities to better engage students and employees remotely. Navigating this evolving landscape, edtech founders are confronted with many challenges in taking their products to market.

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Edtech Incubators are Fading. Here’s What Will Replace Them.

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Edtech startup incubators? That’s so 2010. Kurshan, a Senior Fellow and Innovation Advisor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, has spent decades building edtech enterprises—both for-profit and nonprofit ones. I think this reflects an evolution of the edtech entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2010 $100,000,000.

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Bankers, Buyers and Warriors: Reporter’s Notebook From the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

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We’ve tried to make this event much more broader just another ‘edtech conference’ and to encompass learning and talent development,” says Li Jiang, Vice President of GSV Asset Management. edtech industry. Word on the street is that they’re looking to bring the edtech show to Beijing later this year. NEW FUNDS TO WATCH: The U.S.

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The Challenges of Broadband Access in Rural Schools

edWeb.net

But in order to take advantage of edtech, they first need broadband access. He then transitioned to the role of Instructional Technology Resource teacher at the same school, which he continued until 2010. In 2010, he was hired by Albemarle County Public Schools as an instructional technology specialist. Jamie holds a B.A.

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Tips and Scoops from ASU GSV That You Won’t Find on the Agenda

Edsurge

It’s become known as the edtech industry’s rendezvous for investors and bankers—although it wasn’t always this way. “It Here’s how the attendee demographics have grown from 2010 to 2018. Previously, he co-founded Rocketship Education, a charter school network based in California, and later went to start his own edtech company, Zeal.

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

Edsurge

edtech startups in 2017. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration).

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