Linways Technologies

JULY 12, 2019

In this first part, we will discuss about the key points that you should keep in mind while choosing an edtech solution or product for your college/academic institution. We want to improve the way we learn, and Linways Academic Management System is how we are trying to accomplish that vision. The edtech assessment checklist.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. Rethink Education , an edtech investment firm based in White Plains, N.Y.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The company’s latest deal involves something a little bit more invisible and behind the scenes, but what it calls “one of the most powerful tools we have in modern education.” That tool is data, and it marks the focus of Microsoft’s first edtech acquisition of 2019: DataSense , a data management platform developed by Brightbytes.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Through our acquisition of Pivot Interactives, Discovery Education is now better positioned to broaden our impact by providing our partner school systems access to phenomena-based, active learning tools.”.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 7, 2019

Quick Take: Interactive displays are a big investment in edtech. Projector-based IWB Introduced in 1991, the original interactive whiteboard system is still widely used, although many systems are reaching their end-of-lifecycle. This system consists of a large display board connected to a computer and projector.

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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. Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The company, which was started by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and is now one of the most well-funded in the education industry , has always been highly picky about which colleges it works with to develop courses. Belsky, of Coursera, echoes that.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

From comments about a hurricane wiping out an education system, to loud chatters drowning out a presentation on federal policies and regulations, the brashness of Silicon Valley was on display. Companies are focusing on how to assess the skills of their existing workforce, and what they can do to reskill their employees.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That’s why we’ve also highlighted a few here that we don’t want you to miss, from complicated community college turnarounds to where IKEA and edtech overlap. How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. Here’s a look at how the education company is responding. 2018’s Top 10 Countdown: HigherEd Edition 10.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

The fund is framed as an effort to “future proof the company,” says Owen Henkel, managing director of Pearson Ventures. “As As a big corporate company, there’s a dilemma where your most profitable and strongest products may not be the ones that will be relevant 10 to 15 years from now.” K-12 courseware business.

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TeacherCast

JULY 18, 2022

The other day, I was having a planning meeting with a company about a future project. In the early part of 2012, I attended my first edCamp in Philadelphia. From Podcaster to EdTech Magazine Editor and into the world of Conference promotions … you should never put yourself in the corner and be seen in this world as only one thing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

It turns out these insights are only a sliver of the data the company wants to surface and share with educators and parents. The company has now raised $32 million in venture funding. Founded in 2012, Panorama pitched its survey tools as a way for parents and educators to better understand the social-emotional needs of their children.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

The annual tradition dates back to 2012, and features early-stage companies showing off the latest efforts to solve intractable problems across the education landscape. Some things were once simpler: Edtech pitches used to concentrate on either the K-12 or higher education market. Eight startups took the stage this year.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Mention edtech, and the first thought that usually comes to mind is collecting data to evaluate students’ progress. By asking three key questions, leaders can get a better sense of their K-12 edtech ecosystem. Thus, while a school may think it has 20 official edtech tools in the classroom, the unofficial list could be over 200.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

We’ve tried to make this event much more broader just another ‘edtech conference’ and to encompass learning and talent development,” says Li Jiang, Vice President of GSV Asset Management. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. The joke’s on them.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

I’ve created something important but it still points out flaws in the system that won’t be fixed unless things change across society, not just education. In 2012 I took a job as a general education language arts teacher, working with at-risk youths. In 2012, I transferred to McClarin Success Academy in Fulton County School District.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. It’s also a time when companies of all sizes and ages announce their latest updates and tools. “As WHO GIVES A KAHOOT?:

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Seattle-based software company Ranku announced today its acquisition by academic publishing company John Wiley & Sons. In 2013, co-founders and childhood friends Kim Taylor and Cecilia Retelle started Ranku out of the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, raising $500,000 in seed funding led by Mark Cuban, GSV and Microsoft Ventures.

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TeacherCast

JULY 18, 2022

Step 3: Diversify Your Portfolio The other day, I was having a planning meeting with a company about a future project. In the early part of 2012, I attended my first edCamp in Philadelphia. Step 4: Your Brand Belongs to YOU… not EdTech A similar lesson to the one above but on a much more professional note. They want YOU.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But it boasts a voracious appetite when it comes to ingesting education data and, now, another company. The company has raised $1 million in venture funding since launching in June 2014. In 2013, Schoolzilla spun off as an independent company, and currently serves over 100 school systems across more than 25 states.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech. 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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Texarkana College adopted new enterprise software and other edtech tools like an early-alert system, but technology was only one aspect of the school’s effort. But up until 2012, only 16.3 So in the fall of 2012, Russell and other leaders at the college campaigned to include all of Bowie County in its taxing district.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we talk about advancing K-12 educational systems and outcomes, we have to know the people involved, their goals, what takes up their time — especially when their effectiveness is a lever for student success. I quickly evaluate if this is a person or company that’s worth a relationship. We luckily found a great local company.

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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. Students see their best options through a university website, which displays recommendations using a star-rating system similar to Netflix. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. —

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

That question has spurred the creation of many companies, conferences and other collaborative educational gaming efforts. Launched in 2012 with a three-year, $10.2 Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Department of Education has failed to reauthorize funding to enhance education through technology so in August 2012 ed tech offices in all five boroughs of New York City were shut down as the funding ran dry. When companies and school systems partner to develop educator expertise, everybody wins.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JULY 21, 2013

There are the standard, popular subjects ( much like the subject categories of the Dewey Decimal System -- but I keep this reference to my librarian self ). It''s informative and entertaining and it was created by blur Group , a global technology company that specializes in ecommerce. People ask me about hashtags all the time.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In the fragmented edtech market, it’s all too easy for companies to build a shiny new product, attach a few buzz words to it, and start selling it to overwhelmed school leaders that need solutions fast. In 2012, I conducted my first academic efficacy analysis on our flagship product, eSpark, for a school district with 80 students.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In the fragmented edtech market, it’s all too easy for companies to build a shiny new product, attach a few buzz words to it, and start selling it to overwhelmed school leaders that need solutions fast. In 2012, I conducted my first academic efficacy analysis on our flagship product, eSpark, for a school district with 80 students.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Our classroom should become a complex adaptive system (CAS) with no set leader. Students react and adapt to changes without asking for permission by forming systems with immediate Action-Feedback-Change (AFC) Loops. Systems Thinking Version 2.0. Tests and Measurements systems diagram via Plectica.com.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He has been recognized by EdScoop (EdTech Hero, 2017), SETDA (Leader of the Year, 2013), and Common Sense Media (Educator of the Year, 2012). Before joining IMS Global, Bruce worked as an Edtech data analytics consultant after a brief tenure at the big data analytics company Brightbytes. Join the Community.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

So I’ve been preaching that wholesale mastery learning isn’t realistic because you have to really think about your grade system. I wrote “ One World Schoolhouse ” back in 2012 just kind of theoretically asking, ’How could education be re-imagined?’ It wasn’t obvious to me how it was going to scale fully as edtech.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

If you are giving a school a technology that they cannot use—or it is not really going to make a difference in reading scores or school performance—then it is not the right input, not the right system. One of the major components of this reform was enacted in 2012 when the district received $19.3

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

She pointed out that currently there are 3,500 edtech apps available for classroom use, but there are many more tools and apps that teachers and students are finding on their own. Jena Draper is the founder and general manager at CatchOn, a company designed to support teaching and learning through the smarter use of data and technology.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Early this decade there was perhaps no one person—not even Bergmann or Sams—more associated with flipping the classroom than Sal Khan, due in no small part to the more than 140 million views his Khan Academy videos had racked up by 2012. Think of flipped as the operating system of education.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2017

But too often the conversations around what educators can do with technology in their classrooms focus on the current moment in a system that almost no one thinks is perfect. Jessica Caviness (@mrsjcaviness) April 12, 2012. ⚡ K-T Fink ⚡ (@We_Shout) October 19, 2012. Involve volume somehow. pic.twitter.com/DYCXTpwK. How powerful.

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