Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition).

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EdTech Chromebook Policies Student Data Privacy 150

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Can edtech improve the quality and usefulness of educational research? We may be biased (as colleagues at a large and scrutinized edtech company), but we aren’t naïve. The last few years has seen a movement of companies seeking to research and report on the efficacy of educational products. It’s not been easy!)

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. They last did so in 2013.) Source: New Markets Education Partners.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

AI Is Changing the World: A Conversation on Education’s Future Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM US EDT In true grand finale fashion, #CoSN2024 will wrap up #CoSN2024 with a pair of industry heavyweights talking through what might be the most momentous point in edtech history. And so teaching students and teaching. 00:08:06 Right.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

Six years ago, mixed reality game designer Jane McGonigal ’s keynote at the 2013 ISTE conference focused on how video games can boost resilience in real life. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 schools are building their esports programs. K–12 Schools Find Educational Benefits in Cloud-Based Gaming. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Microsoft Education Smartphone Chromebook 325

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

If it seems baffling that companies with no revenue can raise money from private investors ( ahem , as some edtech startups did in the early 2010’s), then EdTechX Holdings might just sound outright crazy at first. EdTechX Holdings is a “special purpose acquisition company,” or SPAC for short.

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EdTech Company Industry Training 80

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

That strategy paid off over 10 years ago when, as a graduate student at Brigham Young University, he found that his peers were disgruntled with the learning management system used on campus at the time. He left in 2013, a couple years before the company went public.) They can also upload open educational resource materials.)

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LMS EdTech Software Pearson 114

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2018

MORE FROM EDTECH: Five steps to creating a successful K–12 STEM program. The software is available for all major operating systems and installs quickly. MORE FROM EDTECH: How teachers can integrate robotics and coding into their classrooms. blogs and produces videos for EdTech magazine. by Buzz Garwood.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

This certification was awarded by Digital Promise , a non-profit established by the US Congress in 2011 to develop research, practice, and technologies to drive education equity, in partnership with the EdTech Equity Project. SoapBox is a privacy-first and equity-by-design company. For more information, please see www.lwtears.com.

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Accessibility Learning EdTech Company 98

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. One of the benefits of this change is a focus on long-term planning over displays of quarterly growth to impress shareholders, says Mitch Benson, the company’s chief product officer.

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LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 96

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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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

Founded in 2013, the New York City-based organization offers web-based exercises that asks students to fix and improve sentences. With support from Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, Quill hopes to fine-tune its AI to automatically deliver more precise feedback for students as they work through its exercises.

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Meeting EdTech Exercises Conference 114

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In the heartland of America, one company is raising big bucks in a bid to capture this lucrative market. Louis-based company’s $50 million Series B round, which closed in November 2015. Already boasting 4,000 tutors covering 1,000 subjects, the company is on the hunt for more teachers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

More than 600 exhibitors and 34,000 attendees are expected to descend on London this week for the annual Bett show , where some companies come with a barrage of updates befitting one of the biggest education technology trade shows in the world. Company officials won’t say that on record. Company officials won’t say that on record.

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Lenovo Microsoft Company Comparison 125

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

With extensive experience in finance and operations, Naseath, CPA, CFE and CISA, will further Osmo’s global growth, creating operational excellence across the company and scaling the company’s vision of making a broader impact to education. . Masters in Information Systems Management) and a B.S. He holds a M.I.S.M. About BYJU’S.

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Company Strategy Analysis Report 62

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. That means that colleges could use the Coursera software as an alternative to their learning-management system.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

One of the biggest concerns by college leaders about buying such tools from commercial vendors is whether colleges will have access to the underlying algorithmic logic—or whether the systems will be a “black box.” Carnegie Mellon has a long history of commercializing its digital-learning tools, though.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2019

One in 3 parents surveyed in a 2018 PDK Poll say they feared for their students’ safety—nearly three times the percentage in 2013. Last year, RealNetworks, a Seattle-based company, offered its facial recognition software to schools, and a few have pioneered the tool.

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Software Data Digital Citizenship Company 140

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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Pearson Company EdTech Industry 90

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 126

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Dunce Capital doesn’t sound like a name that a company would want on its cap table , especially one that’s in the business of making people smarter. million fund that Danner and a partner (who he declined to name) launched in 2019, with their own money, to make angel investments in education companies.

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Education Company Software Blended Learning 100

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

During a recent edWebinar , edtech experts provided an overview of the E-Rate program, state matching funds, and ways to obtain grants for technological development. She served as general counsel of a broadband company, and as a partner in a major international law firm in Washington D.C., Accessing the E-Rate and Matching State Funds.

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E-rate EdTech Broadband Digital Divide 42

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

based company. The system guides pupils through how to offer constructive feedback to their peers. Other companies like Turnitin and WriteLab have turned to machine-learning technology to automate writing feedback. That company was acquired by Sylvan Learning , the tutoring franchise, last year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Nearly four years later, the Utah-based company is taking another business leap, with a $10 million investment from edtech venture capital firm Owl Ventures. For instance, Kuali’s financial management platform was only used by 17 campuses in 2013, according to Inside Higher Ed. We needed a company that was able to do that.”.

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Software Company EdTech System 62

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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SchoolDude Microsoft Company Learning Analytics 121

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. Netflix just wants you happy and watching more movies. a, Dunlosky, J., &

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Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

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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Kaplan Software Company Microsoft 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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Pearson Kaplan Company Education 93

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

What began as a husband-and-wife skunkworks project in rural Wisconsin four years ago has now become absorbed into an education data company that boasts millions of users across 44 states. In 2013, systems engineer Matt Harris wrote a program to help his wife, a school psychologist, collect and analyze data to help her students.

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Data Tools Education Company 89

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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Course Data System Company 99

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. Since taking the reins as CEO in 2013, he has aggressively shed assets considered tangential to the publisher’s digital transformation strategy. The company’s U.S.

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Pearson Education Outcomes Company 94

Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 16, 2013

ClassDojo is a free online system that helps teachers promote positive behavior in their classroom by letting them track and share student progress and positive behaviors and areas of concern. Accordingly, the company has built out its mobile capabilities to allow its mobile development to parallel its web efforts.

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Android Mobility Smartphone Laptops 172

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

As a story in The New York Times noted at the time, Amazon Inspire appeared to have opened without a system in place to review whether users were violating copyright when they uploaded materials—systems that are standard on YouTube and other collections of user-generated content. Inspire wasn’t Amazon’s first move into education.

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Education OER Company Facebook 110

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. Salesforce has increased its donation each year since piloting the donation program to school districts in 2013. Salesforce on Thursday announced a donation of $8.5 million, $6 million goes to San Francisco and $2.5

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Education Company Software Assistive Technology 108

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

Christopher Emdin who dropped a serious message for SXSWedu attendees : “When a student is brilliant on the street corner but falling asleep in class, something is wrong with the schooling system.” Andrew Joseph, Agarwal's cofounder, went on to join the Amazon Education team as VP of Strategic Relations after TenMarks got acquired in 2013.

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Tools Student Data Privacy Data Policies 69

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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Outcomes Company Analysis Data 126

Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

But Schoolzilla , an edtech company that aggregates and helps analyze student and district information, is trying to change that—and make large gigabytes of data a little bit easier to digest in the process. She specifically attributes Mosaic’s genesis to the company's work with St. Dealing with school data can be a beast.

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