Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

-based publicly traded student services company, plans to buy Thinkful , a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. As the service scales, the adjusted earnings should break even in 2020. The publicly traded company has also adjusted guidance for its future performance.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

2012 saw the development of Oculus, a virtual reality headset company that Facebook later acquired for more than $2 billion. 2020 was predicted to be the first year of the “ambient computing” decade, when these technologies would infiltrate the lives of everyone else, not just those in the gaming world.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

This puts the combined company on the map as the leading provider of applications supporting the core fundamentals of education. With so many start-ups in the EdTech industry there will be inevitable consolidation and lots of elimination of fledgling companies,” adds Chris Twyman, founder of BoomWriter. ABOUT BOOMWRITER MEDIA, INC.:

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. But the New York-based company had already served 45 million students in more than 190 countries before the pandemic hit. “We A sample project in Codecademy.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For the third time this year, an American education technology company is laying claim to the magical “unicorn” status. To date, company has raised $138 million. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company. billion in 2020 to $10.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Since February 2019, those three rideshare companies have raised at least $65 million in venture capital, and together employ more than 200 people. The companies have offered to deliver food and learning materials like laptops and textbooks to students’ homes. The company still plans to expand further into those markets.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

In 2012, First Book , a nonprofit that provides affordable learning materials to kids in need, approached the publishers of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and asked: Can you make a bilingual version of the popular children’s book? In 2012, the Center received a $1.5

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Nearly 10 years later, Coursera has in fact become a unicorn, valued at well over the billion-dollar mark, and in March it started trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company. It’s a tale of two companies in terms of strategy.”

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 184

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. Schoology was founded in 2009 and has been working on data integrations with PowerSchool’s student information system as far back as 2012, Friedman adds.

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Schoology Data Haiku Learning Pearson 162

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” NewView Capital also contributed $30 million in what’s known as an employee tender offer, a process in which NewView purchased company shares held by Course Hero employees. Another U.S. The valuation—$1.1

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In 2012, Chromebooks accounted for only 1% of the devices sold to US classrooms; now, they make up more than half of the edtech market. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

economy leading into 2020—equity market milestone after milestone plus a historically low labor pool. According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66 based education companies that raised a round of at least $250,000. education technology sector in 2019.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. To date, the San Francisco-based company has raised about $140 million. are now 20 percent.”

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Coursera Company Learning Analysis 97

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Come join us for an evening of informal networking, panels with hiring companies, and some light bites. Fill out this form and we'll get your information in front of attending companies. But by 2020, “AI-related job creation will cross into positive territory, reaching 2 million net-new jobs in 2025.” San Francisco, April 10th.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

After two “salvage operations” where she turned around struggling companies, Susan Kim wanted a break from the fervor of startup life. But when she got a call a year ago about an education company with a vibrant community of teachers, she reconsidered. At the time of its sale to NetDragon, the company reported a loss of $19.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The nearly abandoned campus of Chatfield University, one of more than a dozen rural colleges that have closed since 2020 or announced that they will close. million, the college lost $373,520 in 2020 and $850,202 in 2021 , tax records show. “We The college has closed permanently.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In the past, experts have made big projections for the global edtech market, with some groups estimating as much as $252 billion pouring into the market by 2020. In addition to shopping for applications, he hopes to build partnerships with companies that can support him and his school throughout the tech implementation process.

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EdTech Trends Coursera Company 131

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. India’s higher-education system fell further behind when it came to leveraging online learning innovations.

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Education Outcomes Online Learning System 119

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year, and the highest share of students not returning for their sophomore year since 2012. That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year’s level, and the highest share of students not returning for their sophomore year since 2012. percentage points.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. At least 75 such partnerships exist between colleges and three of the country’s top boot camp provider companies: edX, ThriveDX and Fullstack Academy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Another bootcamp has been gobbled up by an education technology company looking to break into the corporate learning and career readiness market. During the earnings call, K12 executives estimated about $50 million in revenue from Galvanize in 2020, putting the sales price at about 3.3 times that. million for the quarter ended Dec.

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Company Software Report Training 91

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Mystery Science, which joined the family of Discovery Education services in 2020 and has won SIIA’s Best Science Instructional Solution CODiE award for Grades PK-8 , provides K-5 educators simple-to-use, open-and-go, hands-on lessons that inspire students to love science. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

million from 2012 to 2019. The hockey-stick graph below, prepared by Holon IQ, an edtech market research firm, represents the present surge in OPM partnerships—slow in the last decade, followed by a steep climb during the pandemic in 2020, and with a big bump in the first quarter this year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Given that research predicts a 46% growth of wearables in education between now and 2020, we all need to understand them. Interestingly, Scott was cited amidst concerns that Oscar Pistorius’ gave him an unfair advantage in the 2012 summer Olympics. (A fact yet to be proven.).

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020), you will probably have these characteristics: "You see roadblocks as opportunities, and you have tons of creativity that keeps you from getting bored. Zodiac animal: Rat Rat in Chinese culture is associated with affluence, wealth, and surplus. If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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Mobile Learning Mobility Groups Company 91

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 19, 2022

Department of Education Reimagine Workforce Preparation Grant Program - Supporting and Advancing Nevada's Dislocated Individuals - Project SANDI As Nevada State Librarian (2020 - 2021), Tammy Douglass Westergard was a leader in envisioning the dynamic roles of libraries in the future of learning and democracy in America.

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Conference Libraries Learning Trends 78

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2020

March 4, 2020) — Forecast5 Analytics®, Inc. ” Founded in 2011, GuideK12 is a geovisual analytics software company that enables education decision makers to explore and analyze school district data by adding a geographic and visual dimension to their student and community information. NAPERVILLE, Ill.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2012, when Luciano started teaching preschool, the median annual salary for IADT graduates in Chicago was just $25,000 ten years after graduating, and more than half of students with federal loans were either delinquent or in default five years after starting repayment. “It was just so demoralizing,” she said.

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Industry Report Training Facebook 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

For example, De Anza Community College English professor Lauren Gordon, who had never used Zoom before 2020, said, “Everyone had a Zoom account,but I didn’t know that — I had never taught online.” He became Stanford’s first vice provost for online learning in 2012.

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Learning Course System Groups 79

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

About 375,000 students in 32 states are enrolled in statewide online schools, many of which are operated as charter schools or run by Education Service Provider companies such as K12 Inc. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. These students aren’t ‘real’?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In partnership with national non-profit EducationSuperHighway, NCTA, USTelecom, NTCA and their member companies will launch programs that enable school districts to identify and connect students without broadband.

Broadband 40

Broadband Learning Company Accessibility 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Department of Education Reimagine Workforce Preparation Grant Program - Supporting and Advancing Nevada's Dislocated Individuals - Project SANDI As Nevada State Librarian (2020 - 2021), Tammy Douglass Westergard was a leader in envisioning the dynamic roles of libraries in the future of learning and democracy in America.

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Conference Libraries Learning Trends 41

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech.

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Education Robotics Assessment Examples 101

edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2021

District administrators were able to obtain grants from companies such as Apple and Verizon and leverage their location to build partnerships with Boeing and other firms. Dr. Darin Brawley , Compton Unified School District’s (CUSD) Superintendent, has been with the district since 2012. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.

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E-rate Professional Learning Elementary Robotics 57

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Welcome to the Thursday, June 4th edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. As an executive, Howard was the CEO of a public television operation and several television production companies, and a state government official. The day's sessions are below. The conference hashtag is #learningrevolution.

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