Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

So says the new Educause Horizon report , which identifies technologies and trends that are changing higher education. OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to significantly influence postsecondary teaching and learning in the future. “It In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Zoom is actually a decade old, and the first conferences launched in 2012, limited to a mere 15 participants. While post-pandemic growth has slowed as schools resume in-person learning, the company is still flush with cash, reporting over $1 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2021.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 7, 2019

Quick Take: Interactive displays are a big investment in edtech. The use of interactive display and collaborative technology in the classroom has become a baseline requirement for increasing student’s participation and education success in the 21st century. Learn everything you need to know before jumping in: ?

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edWeb.net

MARCH 20, 2019

Teachers have many edtech resources in their toolbox now. During the edWebinar, “ Transform Learning: Track Results for Chromebooks, Google Suite, and Every Application,” presenters Kyle Berger, Chief Technology Officer at Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, TX, and Matthew X. More important, are the tools of equal quality? Joseph, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

That’s the first thing Jamila Amarshi did when she saw a job post at Clever in December 2012. “I He Can Write a Press Release, But Can He Report? SOMA resident Michael Winters hit “send” today, finalizing the submission of his application to an open position at edTech [sic] journalism site EdSurge. Read Michael’s letter.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

education conferences—all in this Edtech Reports Recap. households with school-aged children reporting they homeschooled jumped from 5.4 So it added a clarification in the second of its two surveys “to make sure households were reporting true homeschooling rather than virtual learning through a public or private school.”

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2015

For the next week, I will be participating in many events to support gender and cultural diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. The Center for Talent Innovation reported the female quit rate was 45% in the US, 29% in Brazil, and 50% in China. 100% of the women interviewed reported gender bias.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

If online weren’t in the picture, on-campus enrollments, as reported in the most recent U.S. million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. Distance ed is saving higher ed.” They rose 5.6

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2019

One of his latest investments is his first foray in education technology, PenPal Schools. How Crowdinvesting Works Crowdinvesting—which also goes by equity crowdfunding and investment crowdfunding—became legal on paper with the Jobs Act signed by President Barack Obama in 2012. A company can raise a maximum of $1.07

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Doug Levin

APRIL 30, 2016

Employed measures of academic achievement that were standardized assessments or norm-referenced district- or school-wide tests; Reported the duration of the study; and, Otherwise provided sufficient statistical data to calculate effect sizes.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2015

For the next week, I will be participating in many events to support gender and cultural diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. The Center for Talent Innovation reported the female quit rate was 45% in the US, 29% in Brazil, and 50% in China. 100% of the women interviewed reported gender bias.

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STEM Adobe EdTech eBook 150

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. 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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. Several Yuma students with pieces of technology. Additionally, when they saw how the devices helped students learn, principals of individual schools began to use their budgets to buy more laptops and create computer labs, reports Stiffler.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2022

Western Governors and Southern New Hampshire—report more than 100,000 mostly online enrollments each. As the graph below, prepared by the insightful edtech consultant Phil Hill, shows, enrollments—when counting fully online college students in the mix—fell 1.5 million from fall 2012 to fall 2020. million.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2017

based operator of a nationwide franchise of tutoring centers, has acquired education technology startup, Citelighter. Neither he nor Levitt disclosed financial terms of the transaction, but she clarified that the acquisition covers only the company’s technology and school contracts—not its employees.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Today, the organization announced it is investing $5 million in Kolibri as part of a larger effort that will give $50 million in grants to education technology initiatives and nonprofits around the world over the next year. “We

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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. It also offers a rostering solution that expedites how student and educator accounts for third-party edtech applications are created and managed.

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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. 1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division. (By 1, 2018 to Jan.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. With this latest infusion, ThinkCERCA has now raised $14 million in venture funding.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

How do you know whether an edtech product is effective in delivering its intended outcomes? As the number of edtech products has ballooned in the past five years, educators—and parents—seek information to help them make the best decision. Is your edtech efficacy study up to par?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Like our long-standing partner, Simmons University, which has offered online graduate degree programs since 2012, and just recently launched CompleteDegree@Simmons to provide women the opportunity to earn an affordable, career-enhancing, and academically rigorous undergraduate degree online. That’s only going to grow.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

But, we still don’t know enough about the benefits that education beyond high school brings,” said Desmond-Hellmann, during a conference call with reporters. “We What did Gates suggest should go into such a metric back in 2012? We want to help answer this question, ‘Is college worth it?’”

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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. Still, the deal is less than the estimated $168 million that Galvanize has raised since it started in 2012, according to Crunchbase. For the last three months of 2019, K12 reported $257.6

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

All the world’s a stage when you’re a startup, and life becomes a pitch in front of investors, advisers, reporters, partners and potential acquirers. 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.

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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. In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3 What Do Edtech and IKEA Have in Common? Technology shapes our behavior everyday.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. went straight to our podcast, which has had a fresh resurgence with the last year of higher education reporting through our newsletter, Next. So, what have we gleaned?

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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. And in fact, some officials attribute poor technology purchasing decisions as one of the roots of their troubles. We let technology leave us in the dust.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 31, 2019

Teachers often report that increased attentiveness and engagement are the top benefits of teaching with interactive display technology. Note that many researchers still use the term “interactive whiteboard” or IW for all similar technology.) EdTech provides abundant ways to create effective feedback.

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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. The survey question raises eyebrows, as publishers and technology companies offer overlapping, but fundamentally different services. edtech industry.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Yesterday, the New York-based company announced that Ryan Prichard, who has been with the company since July 2012, most recently as Chief Technology Officer, will assume the CEO position. Learn more about its different definitions and applications in our special report on adaptive learning.

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Linways Technologies

JULY 12, 2019

Finding value in education technology. This blog is about finding value in education technology. 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. The edtech assessment checklist.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Course Report published year-end data from edX and Coursera. It [can] create this cycle that naturally leads to the winner-takes-all,” says Phil Hill, a longtime edtech consultant. Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

The company was founded in 2012, and had bootstrapped its growth until its. Course Report , an aggregator of such programs. On its website the company claims to have helped “more than 2,700 students develop meaningful careers in technology or tech-related fields,” at companies including Forbes, Google and Scholastic.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. 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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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. With Ranku, schools can do market research to help develop its courses with real-time reporting on the marketing platform.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

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. And like so many of his fellow technology entrepreneurs, Feuer believes that connecting the dots between data silos can surface deeper insights.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 25, 2018

Please read about his journey to 51Talk/HAWO American Academy, and find out what it’s like to create and edit curriculum for an edtech startup in China. I report to Mr. Dai, our VP of Course Products and Teaching Operations Center. Will, please tell me about yourself and your background.

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