The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Note: This is the fifth and final installment of my "5 things to watch in 2011" series. Five companies to watch in 2011 Five trends to watch in 2011 Five people to follow in 201 1 Five Blogs to read in 2011 Josef Dunne, Via Flickr 1. HTML5 The development of HTML5 has been underway since 2004.

Technology 53

Technology eBook Smartphone Trends 53

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Notes from TCEA 2011 Panel. Vision includes not replacing books based on bindings wearing out, but purchasing content (EX: Shakespeare) and keeping it. Much smaller than the in-person mobilization to register the same number of people. Get PTA and booster clubs to mobilize. 700,000 people registered in 2000.

Advocacy 49

Advocacy Mobility Assessment Social Media 49

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In 2011, the company launched myON as a digital service with roughly 1,000 digital titles on the platform. The mission behind myON, says Brekhus, who began his education technology career as a teacher, is to “de-fragment the one-book-for-all model” for reading instruction. Brekhus adds that the company is cashflow positive.

Pearson 65

Pearson Company EdTech Libraries 65

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Mobile’s two public community colleges had very low graduation rates, and those students who transferred to the local public university lost many of their credits. MOBILE, Ala. Among the companies that took Mobile up on its offer were the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus and the Norwegian engineering company Aker Solutions.

System 64

System Groups Mobility Education 64

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 5, 2023

The rapid rise of digital publishing, especially after the pandemic, has transformed the book publishing industry, making it easier than ever to generate and distribute material to readers worldwide. Pressbooks Pressbooks is an open-source platform that has been around since 2011. Top Five eBook Creation Software to Consider 1.

eBook 52

eBook Software Industry Tools 52

Kathy Schrock

MARCH 30, 2016

They were one of the first companies that understood how important it was to offer cases that would protect student laptops as one-to-one programs were rolled out in schools. I remember, at ISTE 2011, everyone received either a Higher Ground iPad 2 sleeve or a 15" Higher Ground laptop sleeve in their registration bag.

Technology 40

Technology Chromebook Laptops iPad 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. ” he asks.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Veative

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In her book Teaching, Learning, and Visual Literacy , Billie Eilam states that any attempt to change, reform, and improve education must be imbued with the intimate knowledge of the concrete, contemporary realities of educational practices. Norton & Company, 2018. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 27 (1), 2011.

Training 80

Training Technology System Study 80

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

One of my favorites: “Books will soon be obsolete in schools,” Thomas Edison said in 1913. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. .” The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Any day now. Any day now.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Continuing my review of the year, here are my top five places for 2011. I had the privilege of visiting the fair city of Dublin twice in 2011, the first time to keynote the 14th Irish National IT Training Conference in April, and the second time in June to speak at the Annual EDEN Conference. Mombasa, Kenya. Dublin, Ireland.

Conference 49

Conference Social Media Meeting Tablets 49

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! Take your favorite book, marked up preferably, and send it to someone you love and you know would enjoy it. Books (Riordan, Cornwell). Have them mark it up, too.

Tablets 40

Tablets iPad Mobility Company 40

MindShift

MAY 24, 2017

A 2011 report by CARE found that up to two-third of Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States don’t have any form of post-secondary education and that for the ones who do enter college, half drop out. .” For Asian Americans, a false perception persists that they’re universally high achieving.

Policies 49

Policies Data Outcomes Report 49

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. Ethics and Legalities The New York Times continues its investigation of education giant Pearson and ethics concerns surrounding lavish trips that the company''s foundation has sponsored for state education officials.

Knewton 43

Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. In the book I took Boyer''s 1990 categorisation of scholarship as being discovery, integration, application and teaching, and demonstrated how each of these scholarly functions could be transformed by digital scholarship.

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2020

The company notched its first major K-12 customer in 2009, after Casap helped ink a deal with the state department of education in Oregon to deploy Google Apps for Education to its districts. In April 2020, the company claimed its G Suite for Education products were used by 120 million students and users across the world.

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Google Chromebook Education Company 142

Educator Innovator

AUGUST 6, 2014

IBM was the inaugural partner of the Brooklyn P-TECH pilot in 2011. Historically, vocational education has been viewed as a mechanism for tracking low-income youth into career paths that are low- to middle skill and rarely afford opportunities for career and economic mobility. Tomorrow’s Opportunities.

Education 29

Education STEM Outcomes Robotics 29

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2013

Join me today, Tuesday, January 8th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with David Risher, co-founder and CEO of WorlldReader , a US and European non-profit whose mission is to make digital books available to children in the developing world, so millions of people can improve their lives.

Blackboard 55

Blackboard Kaplan Microsoft Mobility 55

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. This was one of the needs behind the development of Ed-Fi , a set of education data tools and standards, in 2011 with support from the Dell Foundation. Reports to Insights.

Report 67

Report Khan Academy Data LMS 67

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

But to reach kids on today’s mobile and digital devices, the creators behind Sesame Street are looking for help—from startups. Sesame Workshop has launched a venture arm—Sesame Ventures—that will invest in companies focused on providing educational, health and social welfare services for children. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator.

EdTech 70

EdTech Khan Academy Company Common Core 70

TeacherCast

MAY 27, 2019

Since 2011, ScreenFlow has been the Screencasting Application of choice for the TeacherCast Educational Network and today we will look at key features that set Screenflow apart in the video production category. Telestream customers include the world’s leading media and entertainment companies: content owners, creators, and distributors.

iPhone 68

iPhone Flipped Classroom Video iPad 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 14, 2020

As a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Cook worked on the eurozone, financial instruments, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He is the author of 24 books and several hundred articles about technology, learning, business, and human progress. We hope you will join us.

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Conference Analysis Policies Survey 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

in the Sociology of Law, Criminology, and Deviance from the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts in 2011 and went on to become a behavior dean at North High School. Gaudino is a member of the international advisor panel for the Global Education Conference since 2011. Both books can be purchased on Amazon.

Conference 72

Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. The district has already spent more than $3 million since 2011 on tablets, laptops, software programs, fiber optic wiring, and engineers to oversee all the instructional technology. But computers are expensive.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. a month.). Increased by just 2, but still.). ” (Wow.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Via The New York Times : “As Amazon Arrives, the Campus Bookstore Is a Books Store No More.” – to the New York-based company Cyndx. Founded by former Pearson exec Larry Singer , the company will offer openly licensed resources to schools. The company has raised $7.45 Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 40

Education Report MOOC E-rate 40