Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But as the company itself will tell you, it didn’t spring up overnight. Zoom is actually a decade old, and the first conferences launched in 2012, limited to a mere 15 participants. In the future, there may be many such companies piggybacking off Zoom’s popularity.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

That comes from over 77 million registered learners, along with more than 2,000 businesses (including 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies) and 100 government agencies that paid for its enterprise offerings. That attracted many students, and led him and a Stanford colleague, Daphne Koller, to start the company. percent).

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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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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Biometrics — technology that captures physical and behavioral data — is being used by several universities to collect data on students’ attention. It’s the natural next step in the move toward personalized learning , in which technology tailors information and lessons to fit students’ knowledge and abilities. meghan.bogardu….

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2020

This week, WeWork announced it is selling coding bootcamp Flatiron School to Carrick Capital Partners, a technology investment firm. Founded in 2012, Flatiron offers courses in data science, software engineering, design and other technology skills. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 2, 2012

Just my feelings from what I have been reading and seeing and what I believe will take a great hold in educational technology. We are seeing more and more teachers, conferences, and companies embrace QR as another way to engage students, audiences and customers. So, how did I do last year? That I believe to be true. What do you think?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Enter the power of virtual technology. SPICE was meeting all of their learners’ needs except one, rural isolation, and this drove their focus on using technology to strengthen their program. In 2008, SPICE was already using technology in innovative ways. SPICE’s mission is to integrate childhood and adult education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

education technology startups reached a record $2.2 Few investors have watched, and fueled, the growth of the edtech industry as closely and consistently as Reach Capital , one of a handful of venture firms that has focused its investments in education technology startups for the past 10 years. Investments in U.S. billion in 2020.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

Schultz has taken a career in building special needs software and games for people who are blind or have low vision into ObjectiveEd, a new endeavor at a time when investor interest in educational tools and investor interest in assistive technology are apparently on the rise. million across 38 deals in 2012 to $276.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

I am a teacher on special assignment (TOSA) as an Academic Coach focusing in Educational Technology in sunny La Habra, California. In early 2012, my district decided to bring a 1:1 mobile device initiative to the middle school students and I was fortunate enough to get a cart of iPads in my classroom. Dr. Tim Green.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. Today the Chicago-based company has raised $10.1 The company currently numbers 45 employees across the country. “Like how to write an email.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The online course won’t include any heavy technical lessons, and is specifically targeting learners without experience with AI who want to better understand the technology or ways it could impact their business. Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

education technology company in 2020. To close out the week, another higher-education company secured a nine-figure fundraise. based company an estimated $2.5 The company also aims to expand its Workforce Recovery Initiative , an effort similar to its Coursera for Campus offering, but tailored for government agencies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Live Music Tutor helps bring the best music instructors in the world into the classroom using technology. A 2012 Fulbright Scholar, Anne has taught at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga, Latvia, the University of Southern California, Occidental College and Idyllwild Arts Academy. Today’s sponsor can help.

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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. For Chegg, founded in 2005, this latest acquisition will expand its direct-to-student learning platform and add more technology career courses.

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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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EdNews Daily

MARCH 24, 2020

Instead, today my team threw me a lifeline that will save our company. Since my company was born in 2012, one of my most trusted advisors has been a friend who was also willing to provide bridge loans when […]. I pride myself on taking care of my team and for the first time in seven years, right now, I can’t.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I went to the 9/11 Memorial Museum in NYC in 2012. I'm also very proud that my company, CDW , is a sponsor of 911day and supports the military, first responders, and all affected by 9/11. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. It was an amazing, heartbreaking experience. link] [link] [link] [link].

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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. BoomWriter Media, inc.,

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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

JULY 30, 2018

Investing is humbling because we inevitably miss out on or pass on companies that go on to achieve great success in realizing their mission. based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. For Reach, they include Sesame Workshop and TAL Education, a Chinese education company. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

She contacted that company, Labster , and was assured she could have a digital lab up in time for the first day of class. And she isn’t the only one sold on the company. Copenhagen-based Labster, founded in 2012, plans to use the money toward content development and expansion in the U.S

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Pursuit of unusual ideas has defined Silver’s career, from his work helping to develop the Scratch block-based programming language to starting JoyLabz, the company behind the Makey Makey invention kits that introduce kids to programming and build skills through hands-on projects. “He was ahead of his time,” Silver recalls.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 students and supporting student learning. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010.

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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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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 30, 2020

But one event, the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) , will always be on my agenda. There have been changes – originally called the Florida Education Technology Conference, this big-time conference was rebranded a few years ago when it was purchased by LRP and became the Future of Education Conference.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. The New York City-based company has raised more than $180 million in investment capital.

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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. The Minerva Project currently consists of two entities.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

A chance to help students today who share those same feelings has kept Pasari motivated as CEO of Cialfo (pronounced “see-al-foe”), a Singapore-based company that helps students with college admissions. Cialfo started in 2012 as an independent in-person education consultancy, later adding the software side of the business.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 12, 2017

Today, on its one year IPO anniversary, 51Talk announced the launch of its premium K12 brand “Hello World American Academy,” as well as a partnership with several companies to combat the “shady” practices often seen in the K12 education industry. Furthermore, worldwide it was the first online education B2C company to achieve this milestone.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

Lifelong learning” is an ideal often celebrated in education circles, and a new company is setting out to prove that the pursuit of new skills and knowledge doesn’t stop at age 55, 62 or whenever Social Security retirement benefits kick in in the future. There’s a misconception that older people are adverse to technology.

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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.” 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

A few days earlier, that company’s competitor Reasoning Mind was acquired by Imagine Learning, a private equity-backed curriculum company. The Seoul, South Korea-based education company was purchased by Daekyo , an operator of after-school learning centers and academic enrichment programs in the country. schools market.

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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

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. They’re trying to provide the full stack of solutions to students.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Educators across the nation can now access Teacher Training Pathways , a free platform offering courses aligned to micro-credentials on remote and hybrid learning, instructional technology coaching and more. The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy. billion in 2019.

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