The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

Note: This is the first of my series "5 things to watch in 2011" Future installments will include: Five people to follow in 2011 Five trends to watch in 2011 Five technologies to watch in 2011 Five blogs to read in 2011 The folks over at Prezi continue to make their presentation product more and more compelling.

Company 71

Company CMS Camtasia Blackboard 71

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

No More Predictions One of the assumptions behind the Gates’ prediction is that the growth of instructional software will replace textbooks. When I told you about this type of software in previous letters, it was mostly speculative,” Bill Gates wrote in his annual letter this year. From 2011 to 2014, U.S. billion to $3.3

Chegg 156

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Teachers’ options include checking for plagiarism manually or using time-saving software designed for this very purpose. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: Adapting to new software is always time-consuming.

Software 144

Software Assessment Analysis Tools 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

According to a report from Common Sense Media, an education nonprofit, headset prices have dropped significantly over the years. The Common Sense report found that while one in five U.S. MEL was not an easy sell at first for TMT Investments, which supports mostly software companies, says partner Igor Shoifot.

STEM 141

STEM Company Software Report 141

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Back in June, the former CEO of Bleacher Report agreed to have coffee with Brett and David Kopf, the co-founders of Remind. 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. We don’t believe software alone is going to improve education,” says David Kopf.

Report 60

Report Smartphone Company Survey 60

Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2018

More than a million cases of child identity theft are reported every year and, as school districts continue to introduce students to new technology and advanced digital curriculum, Internet safety education is becoming an increasingly essential tool when preventing cybercrime. Identity information and personal records. Conclusion.

Data 150

Data Internet Safety LMS Student Data Privacy 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: The First-Year Implementation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in Five States (American Institutes for Research, 2000).

Policies 150

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Between 2018 and 2020, Naseath was Chief Financial Officer and Transformation Leader at PCH International, which provides supply chain distribution and software as a service (SaaS) platforms to leading global brands. In 2013, he was promoted to Director of Global FP&A and Leader for Data Insight & Reporting Center of Excellence.

Company 60

Company Strategy Analysis Report 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. But another blockbuster deal in this sector, in the middle of an ongoing pandemic, offers proof that it can be done—and deliver handsome returns.

IXL Learning 168

IXL Learning Learning Company Assessment 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2019

A report issued Wednesday by investment bank D.A. Blackboard itself went from a publicly traded company to private equity owned in 2011. Thoma Bravo helped to take Thompson’s SolarWinds IT management software company from a publicly traded company to a privately held one. which owns about 7.5 percent of shares.

Blackboard 79

Blackboard LMS Company Report 79

eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2021

Schools know who’s not being reached, and have the reports and tools to improve contactability and communications equity while maintaining privacy and security. ParentSquare ([link] , founded in 2011, is based in Santa Barbara, CA.

Company 52

Company Survey Industry Software 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. American fourth-graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000-point scale. educational system is deteriorating appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Is the U.S. educational system beginning to decay?

System 111

System Education Common Core Study 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Back in 2011, the Mooresville, N.C., When I reported about a laptop failure in a New Jersey school in 2014, I used Mooresville as a counter-example of an effective laptop program. Some used educational software; others used online discussion groups and email.

Laptops 76

Laptops Survey Analysis Study 76

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

In 2011, Pittsburgh-based Duolingo was founded by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. But the real change came when Rosetta Stone’s computer-assisted language software became available for download as one of the first edtech products to become a household name within the U.S. billion, making its total valuation more than $4.7

EdTech 160

EdTech Chegg Mobility Company 160

MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In addition, an extensive report from the RAND Corporation and The Wallace Foundation found that “many interviewees viewed the development of adults’ abilities to establish and maintain their own healthy relationships as the fundamental precursor to those adults effectively teaching their students how to do the same.”. Technical Report.

Learning 117

Learning Analysis Secondary Accessibility 117

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

Photo by Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report. Or, as the report’s authors put it, to achieve success in America, “it’s often better to be rich than smart.”. Photo by Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report. For Stony Brook students born in 1991, who would have turned 20 in 2011, only 10.5 STONY BROOK, N.Y.

Mobility 100

Mobility Report Accessibility Policies 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I’ve now applied to a bachelor’s degree program in software engineering at NYCCT. . IBM helped start the program, in 2011. It turned out that our software was telling the wheels to roll in opposite directions at the same time. I’m the first member of my family to make it this far, and I’m not stopping.

Education 75

Education Robotics Software Company 75

MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In addition, an extensive report from the RAND Corporation and The Wallace Foundation found that “many interviewees viewed the development of adults’ abilities to establish and maintain their own healthy relationships as the fundamental precursor to those adults effectively teaching their students how to do the same.”. Technical Report.

Classroom 92

Classroom Learning Analysis Secondary 92

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

When I first became an education journalist back in 2011, there was a lot of talk about individualized instruction, particularly by using educational software to tailor subjects for each student. A preliminary report , summarizing the findings, was released in August. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

Groups 111

Groups Study Meeting Survey 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Jamie Candee, Edmentum BMO Capital Markets Conference The Industry Seeks a Rebound With more technological infrastructure in place, more capital to spend, and advancements in software, mobile technologies and cloud-based computing, business is expected to boom. billion in venture funding.) -Based Education Technology Companies (2011-2016).

EdTech 125

EdTech Edmentum Industry Company 125

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game.

Online Learning 124

Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 124

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2019

based provider of digital K-12 curriculum and software, laid off about 20 employees on May 3. Founded in 2011, LearnZillion had long offered online supplemental resources for K-12 English and math subjects. Tony Wan contributed to this report. Oftentimes, change can come at a cost.

Company 69

Company Libraries Exercises Software 69

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

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Most analysts -- and the school district itself -- blamed the failure on buggy software. Four years later, the district was demanding a refund from Apple. So how do you choose?

EdTech 120

EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Pete D'Amato/The Hechinger Report. But in less than a decade, by 2025, students like Badalamente could expect to pay more than $100,000 per year, based on projections by The Hechinger Report using annual college cost growth rates from 2008 to 2018. This story was based on data from Tuition Tracker, a tool from The Hechinger Report.

Data 92

Data Report Strategy Study 92

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

Madsen, who advises software companies these days, is still concerned by that attitude, and about how he sees it impacting industry practices—and society more broadly. The new division has been quietly underway for several years, and in 2011 former chancellor Nicholas Dirks pushed the new Division of Data Science to become a campus priority.

Data 136

Data Course Company Analysis 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2017

million fewer than there were in the fall of 2011, the most recent peak, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

STEM 0

STEM Survey Study Data 0

Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 22, 2022

The year 2011 saw the publishing of 7237 audiobooks in the US. According to a report, audiobook format is most popular among the age bracket of 30-49 years. You can also use free software to read aloud your documents. It is an easy-to-use software with fairly simple features. This number increased to 71000 in 2021. .

eBook 59

eBook Software Social Media Outcomes 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Nearly all of the college dropouts interviewed by The Hechinger Report were either working for low-paying hourly jobs or had started their own businesses. In 2011, Georgia launched an effort to tackle this issue called Complete College Georgia. In 2016 it was 79 percent.

Dropout 88

Dropout Study Report System 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Second Coming of Edtech Education technology resurged around 2010 as software applications moved to the cloud (and could be administered and maintained by a handful of people), and as startup entrepreneurs began designing software specifically for classrooms and schools, not just repurposing products originally created for industry.

EdTech 121

EdTech Company Software Secondary 121

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. That, in turn, contributes to the fact that more than a third of students who start college still haven’t earned degrees after six years, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , often piling up loan debt with no payoff. percentage points.

Dropout 97

Dropout Report Policies Data 97

The 21st Century Principal

MAY 21, 2011

According to the 2011 K-12 Horizon Report cloud computing and mobiles are on what it calls the “near term horizon” which means these technologies are likely to see mainstream adoption in the next 12 months. Our adoption of this cloud-based service has impacted more and more of how we carry out our business as educators.

Google 75

Google Report Software Examples 75

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Now, as has been reported , a number of districts have opted to move back to laptops from iPads. The computers were equipped with educational software and wireless connectivity. As has been reported , a number of districts opted to move back to laptops from iPads. So, what happened?

iPad 90

iPad Laptops Classroom Report 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Data source: National Student Clearinghouse Graphic credit: Andy Kruse/APM Reports. This story was produced in partnership with American Public Media.

Data 106

Data Dropout Company Report 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series examining how schools can prepare students for the good middle-class jobs of the future. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. LITTLE SILVER, N.J. — Sign up for our newsletter.

STEM 106

STEM Report System Survey 106

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2017

Founded in 2011, Citelighter offers a browser-based tool that aims to increase students’ writing competency. Only one customer support staff will join Sylvan; the company is still in talks with Citelighter’s overseas software development team about bringing them onboard. Sylvan Learning, the Hunt Valley, Md.-based

Technology 62

Technology Learning Company EdTech 62