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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Education Company E-rate Industry 218

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. Still, the deal is less than the estimated $168 million that Galvanize has raised since it started in 2012, according to Crunchbase. times that. million for the quarter ended Dec.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

They say I’m personalizing learning. 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. In 2012, the way I was teaching didn’t have a name.

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iPad Assessment Personalized Learning Libraries 129

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. Ferreira, who founded the company in 2008, will remain on the company’s board of directors. What’s all the buzz about adaptive learning really about?

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Knewton Adaptive Learning Company Education 60

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today announced the formation of its customer advisory board, a group of key customers who will support the company’s goal of helping more learners read, write, and speak with confidence. “It About Lexia Learning. BOSTON (Aug.

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Education Differentiated Instruction Learning Company 52

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. So in 2012, OpenStax raised $5 million in grant support to produce five titles for large introductory classes. colleges use at least one.

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Industry OER Course Company 110

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Lately, I’ve been looking for personalized learning or competency-based education resources. I quickly evaluate if this is a person or company that’s worth a relationship. We luckily found a great local company. We appreciate the willingness for the company to customize things to our needs. CC: Well said.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. But it’s also up to companies and startups to question their own commissioned research.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 11, 2017

The basic premise (I suggest you read the whole article ) is that a 17 year old working at BlackBoard (a technology company), is ridiculed for using their phone during a meeting by some older adults, because it looks like he is texting, while he is actually taking notes. The ending (spoiler alert!)

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Meeting Blackboard iPhone Social Media 56

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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Technology How To Learning Analysis 40

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.

Technology 40

Technology How To Learning Analysis 40

Marketplace K-12

MAY 2, 2016

Buys LTS Education Systems : The online education provider recently acquired ed-tech company LTS Education Systems for $20 million, according to a transcript of the company’s third quarter earnings call last week. Education and publishing company Pearson is planning to sell GlobalEnglish Corp.,

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System Pearson Company Mobility 40

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 15, 2016

billion added since 2012, said Colin Messenger, senior analyst at Futuresource Consulting, in a release about the company’s most recent study, “Technology in Education: Global Trends, Universe Spend and Market Outlook.” Thailand, India, Mexico and Venezuela have all deployed significant projects, the company found.

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Report Chromebook Mobility Microsoft 40

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by 2gnoMe. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Bruce holds an M.B.A

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Professional Learning Data Future Ready Academic Standards 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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STEM Report Robotics Company 102

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ” he asks. Manufacturing Trends.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

a favorite target of critics of the for-profit school industry, has named former Catapult Learning official Stuart J. based company by serving as executive chairman of its board of directors. Combined, the companies said they would serve 300,000 students through direct instruction and proprietary technology programs.

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Kaplan Dropout Comparison Learning 40

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 6, 2016

A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week. Lead investors included Krishna Bharat, the Google scientist behind Google News; Cervin Ventures, Felicis Ventures, New Ground Ventures, Reach Capital, and Relay Ventures, the company said in a statement. and Canada.

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Udemy Company Software Google 40

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. Archambault agrees. These students aren’t ‘real’?

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Education Handbook Course Elementary 214

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

EdTechTeam

APRIL 9, 2019

EdTechTeam was recognized for the company’s achievements in helping schools implement and increase meaningful adoption of the Google Cloud ecosystem. EdTechTeam aims to inspire and empower educators to design meaningful personalized learning experiences for students. This award was presented at Google Cloud Next ’19.

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Google Education Advocacy Chromebook 40

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

Once the teacher approves all of the personalized learning plans for each of the students based on what their RIT scores and the various common core strands, then the student gets an email notification saying, “You’re ready to get started on your personalized learning plan.” It’s doing just fine. But it’s been great.

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment EdTech 127

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

Marketplace K-12

JULY 7, 2016

billion, and are likely to be about $5 billion in 2016, according to Linn Huang, the research director of devices and displays with IDC, a market research company. billion –and that was for 2012-13, according to the association’s Education Technology Industry Network.

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Data Analysis Industry iPad 63

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here. Starting in preschool, teachers try to spot students’ natural talents; by kindergarten, each child’s top strengths appear on a “personalized learning plan,” a new type of report card. But she said it isn’t expensive. “We

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Learning Elementary Report Personalized Learning 86

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

“We almost doubled people’s learning rate,” says Vincent Clark, a professor of psychology and clinical neuroscience at the University of New Mexico who conducted this research with his colleagues. Since the 2012 publication of that research, he and other scholars have replicated the study several times with similar results.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 29, 2012

Your allies, your connections, can help you to navigate the larger number of challenges that can ultimately derail a startup company'. Social media has simply provided an increasingly powerful range of tools to extend personal learning networks (PLNs) to virtually any part of the world.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Technology solutions can provide the personalized learning, lower costs , and encouragement needed at community colleges where increased fees and lack of structured-support can have a negative effect on the nontraditional student population. Herman Miller to create their first learning studio. And it’s a good thing she did.

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Data E-rate Course Tablets 60

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

currently use Pearson’s enVisionMATH curriculum, which is delivered in a blended print-digital format, the company said. Pearson and Knewton first began working together in 2012. The Knewton-powered enVisionMATH2.0 Almost six million K-12 students in the U.S.

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Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 91

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Online social learning empowers teachers of all styles and levels of classroom experience, providing real professional development created by educators for educators, and an increasing number of teachers are embracing the approach. Connected Educator Month information reached more than four million individuals through the event hashtag.

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Libraries Education BYOD Flipped Classroom 55

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

More important, when educators can download and add digital resources on their own, they may be giving companies unintended access to private student information. He has a proven history of dedication to the advancement of learning through a schooling model that is both student centered and personalized. About the Host.

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EdTech Student Data Privacy Data Libraries 40

The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Thomas Friedman challenges this idea in the article, “How to Get a Job at Google”: … Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google — i.e., the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world’s most successful companies — noted that Google had determined that “G.P.A.’s

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Google Company Course Education 28

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state.

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 65

MindShift

JULY 10, 2017

He finds this ridiculous in an era when hiring managers and business leaders routinely say they are looking for employees who can define the problems the company faces and set about attacking them. Jessica Caviness (@mrsjcaviness) April 12, 2012. ⚡ K-T Fink ⚡ (@We_Shout) October 19, 2012. Involve volume somehow.

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Future Ready Assessment Conference Video 93

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2015

Here are ten ways leaders become misleaders: First published May 16, 2012. I’m not saying things like data-driven analysis can’t help us — it can help us know our students and personalize learning. The truth is, as flawed humans, most of us who lead in anything have a very short step to being a misleader.

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