Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Garvey says that’s been top of mind for her team as they evaluate opportunities, and she points to Reach portfolio companies like Paper, which works with school districts to provide free tutoring to students, as examples of solutions that help alleviate inequities. But if the company succeeds, there can be a big payday.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2023

For example, a district with a dual language immersion program at 10 schools in grades K-12 can now run all school and grade-level lotteries at once with a click of a button, rather than selecting each school and each grade separately.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Providing courses to companies, and adults not enrolled in a full-time degree program, has long been a way for universities to extend their reach (and pockets) beyond the physical lecture hall. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations. says Piloto.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

And now, it’s added an impressive investment to its coffers to help the company continue growing. On Monday, Tinkergarten announced $21 million from WndrCo , a holding company run by former bigwigs from DreamWorks and Dropbox with a past investments that include the owner of Zagat, Mixcloud and 100 Thieves. million in venture funding.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

The Minerva Project started in 2012 to reinvent American higher education. Case in point: The San Francisco-based company just raised $57 million in a Series C round led by Bytedance, the Chinese technology giant best known for its video-sharing app, TikTok. To date, the company has raised just north of $128 million in venture capital.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Now, it just needs students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And now, the company that helps groups of colleges—a “consortium” in Acadeum parlance—share online courses has raised a new round of funding to support its marketing efforts and woo more schools to its digital course-sharing consortia. Pierce changed the name because people mistook his company for an actual consortium (which it is not).

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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 175

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

When deciding whether a company is viable to be bought, CareMonkey president Peter Bencivenga says the magic number is 90 percent. That number refers to customer retention rate, and Bencivenga said he’s called off potential acquisitions when a company’s performance in this department isn’t up to snuff.

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Technology Education Company Pearson 122

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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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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. There are other examples of this historical amnesia in ed-tech specifically, no doubt. We can debate which one.

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Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools. The company has raised no outside capital since its start.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” But the programs also serve as an example of how colleges, increasingly thinking like businesses, are eager to find new ways to bring in revenue.

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Coursera MOOC Course Company 167

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

2012 saw the development of Oculus, a virtual reality headset company that Facebook later acquired for more than $2 billion. For example, this past fall, professor Brent Stockwell shipped Oculus headsets to students so that they could take part in discussion sessions in VR.

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Tools Smartphone Education Analysis 179

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

For example, when a student scanned their card to get on the bus, a parent could receive a text message. The popular game Pokemon Go is an example of an augmented reality game. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to edit and post it. These chips interact with sensors.

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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. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Surveys and sources suggest many college graduates are unprepared for the workforce.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 26, 2018

It is also worth bearing in mind that the AR bubble went up in 2011/2012, and there are many now defunct apps and programs from that time, and for our purposes utterly redundant. Pokemon GO is probably the most well-known example of how augmented reality works. A short introduction to AR (Augmented Reality).

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012 , their pitch to investors often included jargon around “disrupting” the way education is accessed and consumed. Georgia State University and edX offer an online masters of analytics, for example. And it isn’t the only MOOC provider to do so.

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Coursera MOOC Company Trends 109

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

For example, “Industrial Era” schools of the early 20th century were designed to reflect what constituted modernity during that period, such as fixed schedules and efficient factory, assembly-line production. be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity. into a common identity.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

In some ways, the San Francisco-based company is arguing that high-quality education can be done cheaper thanks to technology in ways that have been elusive in the past. Minerva is a for-profit company that has raised more than $119 million since its founding in 2012, and it provides online-education services and curriculum.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. I think you’re wrong, so I propose a bet: We’ll both invest in a basket of stocks on January 1, 2012—mine representing the edtech industry, and yours the whole economy. My edtech portfolio was more difficult to assemble.

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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. One great example: OpenTable, which won its fame by created the software that helps us make reservations at restaurants. Boston, April 18th.

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Robotics Software Company Data 78

Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2017

Online coding academies are a prime example of students receiving intensive, high-quality training complete with industry-recognized certifications. Graduates can go on to six-figure salaries in highly profile positions at sought after software companies. Increasingly this is possible without a college degree.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Triseum is a private company that spun out of Texas A&M University’s Live Lab in late 2014. For example, W.W. Norton & Company.

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Video Game-Based Learning Company Survey 143

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

We taught 20 girls in New York City in 2012. And there are so many more companies out there. It's such an honor to be in the company of people who have made such a difference in our world by recognizing the power and the potential of our children. Here’s a silly example: I have the new Apple EarPods. That's a good point.

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Education Company Examples Technology 130

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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Company Report Outcomes Data 97

ViewSonic Education

MAY 7, 2019

Large-format touchscreen LED displays, introduced in 2012, offered a new alternative with expanded benefits, reduced maintenance requirements and better overall total cost of ownership (TCO). With this option, the only component needed for full functionality is the LED display itself, although special pens may also be used.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As demand for low-cost, high-quality materials increased during the Great Recession, the nonprofit project shifted from curation to creation, publishing its first five free textbooks in 2012. Many members use them as physical examples they can show faculty when they’re introducing them to open textbooks.” colleges use at least one.

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Industry OER Course Company 106

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

Young companies, however, rarely have the luxury of a dedicated human resources team to give each application more than a cursory vetting. That’s the first thing Jamila Amarshi did when she saw a job post at Clever in December 2012. “I Knowing what makes a company click—and tick—can also quickly grab the staff’s attention.

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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. The last example I will share goes to the heart of instruction. Toppo and Tracy point out an illustrative example that involves math instruction.

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Education Robotics Assessment Examples 101

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. I’ve used the time to find my path. I haven’t really lost too much.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 217

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Sometimes it seems as though education reformers, present company included, spend much of their time discussing the obvious: that good teaching matters, that learning to read by grade 3 is important, that early childhood learning is very valuable. Read the original version here. “Connective Tissue” Between Schools and Families.

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