eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Zywicki has more than a decade of experience leading, scaling, and building education companies. Before that, Zywicki co-founded the software company Ranku in 2013, which built two-sided marketplaces for state systems to increase student enrollment. For more information, visit [link].

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

School systems spend tens of billions of dollars each year on ed tech products, but much of that money is wasted. Meanwhile, with more than 11,000 ed tech products on the market and companies sometimes making extravagant claims about their effectiveness, it’s often impossible to determine which products work and which don’t.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Nine edtech companies, nominated by the incubators that hatched them, will present to an audience of 25 education leaders. Here's who will be pitching: Boulder Learning : Developing learning systems with virtual tutors. Among the fun and games happening at ISTE in mile-high Denver this year is a pitch competition.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over a year, when the company was still publicly traded. Goldsmith is no longer CEO, and the Salt Lake City-based company is now privately owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

The North Florida college first introduced an early-alert system in the mid-2000s. The first early-alert effort at the college, which serves around 12,000 students, was built into the college’s existing student record system, called Integrow, and focused specifically on first-time college students and those in developmental-education courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Pearson is looking for some magic to support its transition from textbook publisher to digital education company. Today, the company announced that Andy Bird, former chairman of Walt Disney International, will be Pearson’s next chief executive, starting October 19. In 2016, the company posted a £2.6 billion in sales.

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Pearson Company Report Industry 186

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

The “attempted security incident” this month knocked out many of Illuminate Education’s digital services, including an online gradebook, Skedula, and a related parent-focused platform, PupilPath, which are used by New York’s public school system. And companies have not always been candid when they’ve experienced a significant attack.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Springboard has shifted significantly since it was founded in 2013. Back then, the company was a search tool for identifying online courses. The company guarantees graduates in the U.S. For the rest, the company reports that its graduates see an average salary bump of $26,000. Most people need human support.”

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Pearson Company Training Software 158

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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Occasionally the state will also partner with companies to provide materials or services to districts free of charge. In 2013, Indiana had such an arrangement with My Big Campus, a learning management system provider that went out of business two years later, leaving many districts without an LMS and more than a few frustrated teachers.

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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. If a school adopts iPads, teachers can only use games that work with the Apple operating system. K–12 Schools Find Educational Benefits in Cloud-Based Gaming.

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Microsoft Education Smartphone Chromebook 329

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

To install and repair HVAC systems, workers need specific technical abilities, such as reading blueprints and manipulating tools. That’s the kind of deeply human attribute employers say they’re looking for in job candidates as companies try to adapt to modern changes in technology and business strategy. What Do Employers Want?

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Although Joel passed away in 2013, Sunseed Food still exists in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Jay sits on the board. “He Silver was enigmatic in his description of the GameBender offering, preferring to keep details under wraps until May 29, when he says the company will unveil the final product and pricing.

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Game-Based Learning Company System Groups 166

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And one of the best ways to improve the odds of landing a particular job is to ask an employee at the company to recommend you as a top candidate. It’s a cross between a career coaching service and a gig economy marketplace that connects job seekers directly with employees at top technology companies. Here’s how it works.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since its founding in 1984, Lexia has grown from a small home-based business in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to a company with nearly 1,000 employees currently serving more than 6.8 It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

This data drives personalized pathing within the system: offering scaffolds and opportunities to stretch so all students progress along the skills sequence together. About SoapBox Labs Since 2013, SoapBox Labs has been building speech recognition technology that caters to the idiosyncrasies and unique speech patterns of children.

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Accessibility Learning EdTech Company 98

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 134

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Historically that involves bringing some form physical identification, but increasingly companies and institutions are turning to face recognition, fingerprinting and voice biometrics. The Boston-based company passed its own test of sorts today: securing a $90 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Even before then, the company had already taken a big hit. “We

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EdTech Company Training Guidelines 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Isaacs’ unusual class structure comes courtesy of Classcraft , a company based in New York and Sherbrooke, Quebec, that helps educators teach teamwork, good behavior and their regular classroom lessons through the guise of a school-yearlong fantasy game. The company has raised a total of $11 million to date. Starting Oct.

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Classroom Company Video Assessment 154

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The software is available for all major operating systems and installs quickly. I’ve been using littleBits kits since 2013, when the company first released the Base, Premium and Deluxe Kits. LittleBits Is Equipped with Abundant Resources. There are some great tutorials and four superengaging activities right out of the box.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In a nutshell, DataSense is a set of professional services that work with K-12 districts to collect data from different data systems, translate them into unified formats and aggregate that information into a unified dashboard for reporting purposes. Company officials declined to comment on this deal.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

On March 22, the company “elected to pause exam activity due to an unexpected closure of our support and proctoring centers related to the COVID-19 crisis,” Sarah Pauling, its senior director of marketing, said in an email. Last week, another online proctoring company, Honorlock, secured $11.5 million in funding.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The novel tells the coming-of-age story of three friends who start a video-game design company. The real-life Paloma was featured on the cover of a 2013 issue of Wired, which inspired the film, with the headline “The Next Steve Jobs.” But you won’t have that problem at home! See what they did there?

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Social Media Company Video Analysis 111

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

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 101

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. The company has raised no outside capital since its start.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the more high profile efforts has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2013 began providing grant funding to colleges and companies for its Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success initiative, or iPASS for short. The ultimate goal is to help more students persist and finish college.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We focus a lot on the K-12 system of the United States in our blog , and I thought it would be fun and interesting to explore how countries in the developing world are facing their specific educational challenges with blended learning models. The initial phase was a 12 month pilot to train 318 CHVs. Conclusion.

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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 106

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Yet some of the voice recognition systems today were neither designed nor trained to pick up different dialects, and that can be a problem when they are used to assess oral fluency, says Patricia Scanlon. “I This messes with the speech recognition systems that were built for adults.” The company said it has fixed the glitch.)

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Exercises Company Data Assessment 65

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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