The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

After a 14-year career in student & worship ministry, public speaking, and starting churches, in 2011, Chris began working for Burleson ISD in Burleson, TX as a 4th and 5th Grade Math and Reading Special Education Teacher at J.W. And so that was an amazing part of the experience with the city and corporate meeting. It sounds small.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Both companies trace their lineage to top-pedigree universities: Carnegie grew out of research on computer-based instructional systems started by Carnegie Mellon researchers. Carnegie Learning spun out as an independent company in 1998. After it became an independent company in 2014, Harel raised another $3.5

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Learning Company Training Course 99

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 160

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Every now and then, it's been hard to do a call while the kids are screaming or something like that, but between meetings, to see them or have lunch with them or go on a walk with them, that part has been actually quite nice.” EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic? They were real education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

He has been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Garg, who is now one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching bestowed by Baylor University. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. Email tgraham@coursehero.com.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

Pathways in Technology Early College High School (more commonly known as P-TECH) in Crown Heights, Brooklyn opened its doors in 2011. This week the company announced plans to create 80 new P-TECH schools across the globe, Stanley S. or higher in order to earn college credit, requiring them to repeat courses and graduate later.

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TeacherCast

JULY 18, 2022

As the legend goes … It was the middle of the night on July 11, 2011. You can of course try, but you don’ have any guarantee that your bird will fly. The other day, I was having a planning meeting with a company about a future project. Step 1: You Have to Start Somewhere. But I wanted to do something different.

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Edcamps Learning EdTech Microsoft 143

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Gender is just one part of the diversity problem confronting many technology companies today. As diversity reports from companies like Alphabet, Apple and Facebook reveal, the employee headcounts—especially in senior and executive positions—are overwhelmingly male and white. And I want to run a video game company.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. million persons under the age of 18.

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Education Industry Training Strategy 192

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Meeting this year’s students “where they are” is going to look different than it did for last year’s class. When you’re the company behind those classroom solutions that are either deemed essential or scrapable at the end of the year, it’s imperative to keep a finger on the pulse of those conversations districts are having on an annual basis.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

The publisher co-led the New York City-based company’s $33 million Series D round in October 2011, hailed at the time as a strategic investment and a major vote of confidence in Knewton’s potential. The retrenchment delivers a setback to Knewton, for whom Pearson was the first—and most visible—partner. content providers.

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TeacherCast

JULY 18, 2022

Step 1: You Have to Start Somewhere As the legend goes … It was the middle of the night on July 11, 2011. You can of course try, but you don’ have any guarantee that your bird will fly. Step 3: Diversify Your Portfolio The other day, I was having a planning meeting with a company about a future project.

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Edcamps Learning EdTech Microsoft 88

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Postsecondary enrollment has been falling since 2011 , with particularly big dips last year and this , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 16, 2016

Meet the career and college-planning app, Schoold.co. From 2006-2011, I supported and advised over 2,500 teachers. Government can garnish wages and withhold tax refunds to meet student loan debt requirements. By Robyn D. You can now hold the future in your hand before this phrase comes to life. in Curriculum and Instruction.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

Although companies like the Standard Electric Time Company (founded in Massachusetts in 1884) sold synchronized clock and bell systems to schools (and yes, factories), an early function of the latter was not to mimic the rhythm of the workplace but rather to warn occupants about fire. And that includes the school bell. " (1838).

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Industry Training System Handbook 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 26, 2011

This session directly addresses the need to develop and implement real-time employee training assessment strategies specifically designed to meet targeted business objectives. Utilizing an actual high-tech, consumer electronic Fortune 100 company renamed ''Orange Inc.'' link] P2PU COURSE - CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ( Math 2.0

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

Yale University is creating a master’s program that will hold many courses online, continuing the Ivy League institution’s foray into “blended” learning. Students would meet in virtual classrooms where they would discuss course material using videoconferencing technology. Distance Education Online Courses'

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie navigated a daunting obstacle course of family and health crises during his teenage years and made it to his dream school – Georgia State University. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Frontline Education , a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, today released a comprehensive year-to-date innovation summary that underscores the company’s commitment to anticipating and meeting the evolving needs of school districts across the country.

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Software Education Data Report 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As we all know, not every Web project succeeds, but you helped to explore the exciting combination of what we liked to call the "LC3:" a social network for educators, a personalized repository for collecting and sharing educational resources, and synchronous meeting capability. Your existing vRooms will be available until December 31, 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018. MOBILE, Ala.

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System Groups Mobility Education 65

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It seemed an uncontroversial ask — of course I wanted his class to have the supplies they needed for the year. The Title I program identifies what fiscal resources schools need, but Congress hasn’t allocated enough resources to meet those needs. Meanwhile, ordinary people are left to fill the gaps.

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Secondary Report System Advocacy 68

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Ward barely spoke for the rest of the meeting. Stepping into the hallway after the meeting, Ward could no longer hold back her tears. In North Carolina, where the flagship at Chapel Hill has committed to meeting 100 percent of student need, the average student gets $11,300 in aid. There were few. And indeed, at first it was.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Good teachers, of course, have always personalized lessons based on their students’ needs. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. You can only ask the teacher because the teacher actually has a heart.”. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 101

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. According to the American Association of University Professors , in Fall 2011 41.5% Students in some courses also had access to lecture video.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years into his 12-year tenure as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg and his then education chief, Joel Klein, kicked off a program that they hoped would transform education in the city by making schools “centres of innovation,” Bloomberg told the BBC back in 2011. The Cost of Political Shuffling.

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iLearn Policies Blended Learning Schoology 63

Wired Campus

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Horn, a co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, stepped down Friday as director of its education program to begin working more directly with companies in the education market. “I want to make a deeper impact from the ground,” he said in an interview Friday. Christensen and Curtis W.

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Company MOOC Industry Study 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company. When the program started in 2011, Donna and another employee worked as educational liaisons on a consultant basis and split around 140 cases between them.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 16, 2019

college enrollment went up was 2011, at the tail end of the recession. These factors — and the data that support them — find their way into Pérez’s meetings with the budget team at Trinity College. Of course, it’s much more complicated than simply recruiting more — or different — students. Click here.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In a 2015 Fortune Magazine survey of nine tech giants – titans like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google – six of those companies reported that black and Hispanic employees made up less than 10 percent of their representative workforces. Together these initiatives look to diversify an industry dominated by white and Asian men.

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STEM Industry Company Report 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

million since the last peak, in the fall of 2011 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Many institutions are adding programs tied to real-time workplace demand, including online courses that appeal to people who are balancing their educations with families and work.

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Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 76

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.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Although I hate the travel, I have to admit that when I am in such places, and while I am meeting such brilliant and inspirational people, I am in my element. Here is the first part of my end of year retrospective on the top ten (actually eleven) places I visited in 2011, and the great people I met. Today's post goes from 10 down to 6.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Farrell’s initial wilderness course had its origins in the ideas of Kurt Hahn, a German educator who believed that education must address character, students can learn by failing, and learning should involve real-world experiences. When the war ended, the organization began offering similar courses to the public. Hahn said he could.

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