Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Annually, Kahoot Pro costs $12 per teacher for K-12, the company’s primary market in education, and $60 per instructor for higher education. Kahoot, a Norwegian company, may have been feeling pressure from investors, who have injected $43.5 million into the company, according to Crunchbase.

Game-Based Learning 116

Game-Based Learning Company EdTech Survey 116

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

million to a company focused on building the skills of English-language learners. Launched in 2011, Ellevation describes itself as offering online management and instructional tools focused on building collaboration among educators and helping schools meet the evolving demand’s of the nation’s surging ELL student population.

Company 40

Company Facebook Survey Industry 40

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. The company has invested in a partner rental program that should reach 400 titles in the second half of this year. billion to $3.3

Chegg 158

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 158

eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2021

provider of the premier unified school-to-home engagement platform for K-12, today announced it has received a significant investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused firm that invests in technology and tech-enabled services companies. ParentSquare ([link] , founded in 2011, is based in Santa Barbara, CA.

Company 52

Company Survey Industry Software 52

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.

Education 190

Education Industry Training Strategy 190

The Innovative Educator

MARCH 3, 2013

According to a study by Internet se curity company AVG , two thirds of HR managers will browse social media profiles of candidates. When it comes to college about 24% of admission officers admit to tracking applicants on various social media sites to check an applicant’s digital footprint, according to a 2011 Kaplan Test Prep survey.

Kaplan 86

Kaplan Social Media Survey Company 86

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

More than half of university trustees in a survey conducted by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges said they were concerned about the financial futures of their institutions. The survey was released in late January — before the market went into its slide. million to $7.5

Survey 108

Survey Study Report STEM 108

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. satisfaction, engagement, grades, mindsets, attitudes, persistence, views, logins, clicks, etc.

Education 60

Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Yet he was struck by Remind’s mission, along with the “immense capability and market positioning that the company has carved in the education ecosystem.” Giving up the steering wheel was a decision that Brett Kopf, who led Remind since its start in 2011, says he is at ease with. They’ve also raised more than $59.5

Report 60

Report Smartphone Company Survey 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

With authoring software, instructional designers can steer online students through a mixtape of digital content—videos, graphs, weblinks, PDFs, drag-and-drop activities, PowerPoint slides, quizzes, survey tools and so on. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

Online Learning 126

Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 126

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2016

San Mateo, CA-based marketing software company Marketo announced today a growth of 44 education customers who have signed on, renewed or expanded their agreements from January to July 2016. According to the report, the number of organizations using marketing automation from 2011 to 2014 grew 11-fold.

Social Media 60

Social Media Adobe Software Survey 60

Bryan Alexander

MAY 16, 2015

The CEO of a major energy company asked the University of Oklahome to fire some faculty , because he didn’t like the way their research was heading. ” And: Hamm also expressed an interest in joining a search committee charged with finding a new director for the geological survey, according to Grillot’s e-mail.

Survey 40

Survey Company Meeting Report 40

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

That year, the institute reported less than $500,000 in grant revenue—a precipitous drop from previous years (and particularly from 2011, when the organization reported $11.3 was the creation of a network of game-based learning researchers, developers and educators who will continue their work at other companies and organizations.

Game-Based Learning 143

Game-Based Learning Pearson Training Report 143

TeacherCast

APRIL 21, 2019

If you think of companies like Apple , McDonald's , or Nike … what do you think of? But you also might think of the messages surround each of those companies. In 2011, I didn't set out to create anything special. Sit back … this could be the start of a great adventure! What is a Brand? Click To Tweet.

Strategy 68

Strategy Social Media Education Course 68

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. The 13-year-olds who did so poorly in 2019 would have been in grades K-2 during the worst of the cuts, from 2011-14. More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. Estimates of just how sluggish vary.

Elementary 144

Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 144

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

In fact, a recent survey of 500 school leaders noted that 54 percent see the concept as a “promising idea” or “one of many school improvement strategies.” Traditionally, he notes, management consulting companies help districts set up strategic plans but leave the implementation process to teachers.

Personalized Learning 122

Personalized Learning Education Elements Learning Outcomes 122

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

The “Netflix for education” analogy has become somewhat of a cliché for edtech companies using student data to recommend anything from courses to textbooks. So, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Denley built Degree Compass in 2011 as a way to alleviate that problem by suggesting what courses students should take.

Course 99

Course Data System Company 99

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In one survey, a large majority (80 percent) of math teachers reported that free instructional content from Khan Academy helped them challenge their most advanced students, and a smaller but still significant majority (66 percent) reported that it gave them extra capacity to help their most struggling students make the gains they needed.

EdTech 120

EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. million PreK-12 students. NuuEd Receives $3 Million from Swiss Firm: Oakland, Calif.-based

Knewton 40

Knewton Edmentum Company Professional Learning 40

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 24, 2016

A survey of 2,000 parents and educators in five countries (China, Kenya, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States) found that social-emotional learning is widely recognized, but poorly understood.

Report 40

Report Learning Trends Survey 40

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

For this week’s podcast, EdSurge connected with Couch to talk about some of those frustrations, his time at Apple, and where he sees the company going next in education. At the end of the year, when they surveyed the students about their favorite class, they voted the janitorial closet. Before school, recess, lunch, after school.’

Education 77

Education iPad Strategy Technology 77

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them. workers, a Gallup survey found. With a record 7.1 So did about half of non-residents who studied there.

Industry 65

Industry Report Study Survey 65

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

Because, right now, we do not have anywhere near enough people to do any of that,” said Alan Paller, director of research for the SANS Institute, a cybersecurity training company that created the Girls Go Cyberstart challenge. And yet, said Paller, the on-ramp for women into cybersecurity remains obstructed. “If

STEM 106

STEM Report System Survey 106

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. And at private for-profit colleges and universities, more than 44 percent of students leave before finishing, a figure that is eight-tenths of a percentage points worse than it was in 2011. or a solid B, according to the education consulting company Civitas Learning.

Dropout 97

Dropout Report Policies Data 97

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s not alone: the parent company that owns the for-profit Argosy University and Art Institutes, Dream Center Education Holdings LLC, is “ discontinuing campus-based programs ” at seven of its campuses in California. Internationally, the market shattered its own funding record, with 813 different companies landing a total of $9.52

Coursera 64

Coursera EdTech Trends Examples 64

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 12, 2016

The study covers 1,224 9 th grade students from 17 Chicago public schools who failed Algebra 1 and enrolled in summer school in 2011 or 2012. now known as FuelEd Online Courses.). A spokeswoman from K12 Inc. “We have learned a lot about online and blended curriculum and instruction in the last five years. .

Study 40

Study Course Company Online Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In order for colleges to manage the complex financial math behind tuition discounting, many have turned to enrollment management companies that provide software to game out their strategies. A 2016 survey of rising seniors and their parents by the firm found that half of respondents said they would never consider a school with high tuition.

Data 92

Data Report Strategy Study 92

eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The district also surveyed parents to find out what their biggest needs were. These efforts led to the formation of the Guilford Parent Academy (GPA) in 2011, a multifaceted parent engagement initiative that is partly supported by federal Race to the Top money. Free online tutoring.

E-rate 40

E-rate Social Media Video Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise. Hicks wasn’t about to allow Tessa into the care of strangers.

Report 111

Report System Survey Meeting 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

million since the most recent peak, in 2011, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. A survey by the consulting firm Kognito suggests that faculty don’t always comprehend the problems confronting some of these students. That’s $13.3 million for the average public and more than $8.3 And that‘s what some of them are starting to do.”.

Training 78

Training Report Dropout System 78

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.

STEM 40

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 may be too late, however; the top 1 percent of established online providers have already cornered 21 percent of enrollment, according to the Babson Survey Research Group, which tracks this.

Dropout 71

Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 71

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2020

This marks the first education investment for the San Francisco-based firm, whose portfolio includes many highly-valued technology companies and ones that went public, including Facebook, Slack and Spotify. To date, the company has raised $192 million in venture capital. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have done this transaction.”

EdTech 151

EdTech Company Facebook Survey 151

The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

Nearly four out of five leaders of community colleges nationwide surveyed by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama called money for facilities “a major need.”. billion last year on construction, an all-time high, according to Dodge Data & Analytics , a private company that tracks this. billion of debt.

Report 40

Report Trends Survey Strategy 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In a recent survey of the state’s superintendents conducted by the University of Southern Maine, roughly a quarter of respondents said they planned to stick with a proficiency-based diploma, even though the law no longer requires it. So far, none of the academies are in Maine.

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

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. ” Gartner says, rather vaguely, that it relies on scenarios and surveys and pattern recognition to place technologies on the line.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40