eSchool News

MAY 6, 2022

Sora Sweet Reads provides free access to a variety of popular digital books during the next 100+ days to encourage student reading during the rest of the school year and summer break. If your school offers access to Sora, find your digital collection at [link]. About OverDrive Education – a division of OverDrive.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. The company has invested in a partner rental program that should reach 400 titles in the second half of this year. billion to $3.3

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

If we didn’t find that, a week or two weeks may have led to failing the class,” says White, 67, who at the time was managing director of student access and success at the private Pennsylvania school of 7,000 students. Jackson Boyar and James Lu Morrissey founded Mentor Collective as a nonprofit in 2014.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 19, 2022

Our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," will be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future. Please also join this Library 2.0

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2018

Last February, myON was sold by its parent company , Capstone to private equity firm Francisco Partners. billion in 2014. Across these three main product lines, the company claims usage in one-third of all U.S. This acquisition will expand Renaissance’s library of digital content for its Accelerated Reader 360 program.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The E-rate program helps schools and libraries access high-speed internet and telecommunications at prices that won’t break the bank. At the end of 2014, the Federal Communications Commission voted to increase funding to the federal E-rate program by $1.5 The vote brought the annual program cap from $2.4 billion to $3.9

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

based company has now raised a total of $21.4 Epic launched its Netflix-like subscription service in 2014 with 5,000 digital books. The company pays a licensing fee for these rights.) per month for unlimited access to the digital library. The Redwood City, Calif.-based million in venture funding.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010. Indeed, $2.3

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Can vacant parking lots be redeveloped into libraries for children in “reading deserts?” When it comes to fundraising, companies, including not-for-profits, shouldn’t be shy from asking for what they need, said Nancy Lublin, CEO of Crisis Text Line , a nonprofit that offers free counseling for people in crisis. 27-28, 2018.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Squiggle Park, the company’s eponymous game, was designed to help children become literate by third grade—that critical point when students transition from “learning to read, to reading to learn,” Rivard Dexter explains. It was also intended, from the very beginning, to be accessible to any child anywhere in the world. The company’s 1.5

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Now the company has pivoted, and it is poised to formally announce its own online courseware that will compete head-to-head with those publishing giants.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

EdSurge will be hosting hundreds of local teachers and administrators, along with dozens of edtech companies from around the country, at our Summit on Dec. Everyone is saying ‘we are in a digital world,’ so how do we support every student, especially those that might not have WiFi access at home?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A majority of online students visit campus to access services and support, or to attend events and in-person courses, in a true blending of online and in-person. At Northeastern University, many of our 17,000 online and hybrid students access our campus network with locations in Boston, Charlotte, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Toronto.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The E-rate program helps schools and libraries access high-speed internet and telecommunications at prices that won’t break the bank. At the end of 2014, the Federal Communications Commission voted to increase funding to the federal E-rate program by $1.5 The vote brought the annual program cap from $2.4 billion to $3.9

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," will be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future. Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 7, 2022

Similarly, your executive team may want access to information on the cloud-based tool for crucial decision-making and finds that it is not working. So it may be that it deploys a new upgrade but if there is a problem in deployment for even five minutes, the company will roll back the new upgrade and immediately switch to the previous version.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

It’s the percentage of students around the whole who lack consistent internet connectivity—and access to many of the tools and online courseware that some have hailed as the solution to education gaps. Some, like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, have taken on the monstrous task of bringing internet access to billions of people around the world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Learn more or connect with Amanda on Twitter @ AmandaFoxSTEM Brad Weinstein Brad Weinstein founded TeacherGoals in 2014 as a way to inspire educators that do such important work with students. They have a wonderful lesson library that they've created as well. So, for example, I know of an ed tech company in the U.K.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Everything else is like trading penny stocks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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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. It brought over the companies from the Seed Fund into its portfolio as well, and re-invested in 14 of them.) In total, this first fund supported 35 investments. Yet not all investments pan out.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Digital Promise and other nonprofit organizations including EveryoneOn and The Learning Accelerator have been working with companies and schools to ensure these programs and offers are making their way into the hands of teachers, students, and families across the country. Here are just a few of their stories. Safari Books.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

And potential students are taking campus tours, imagining themselves burning the midnight oil in the library and meeting their new roommate in dorms. Since 2014, Green has worked with CampusBird , an interactive map and virtual tour platform, to build 3D maps and virtual tours of Texas A&M. Image Credit: CampusBird.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

I met Trevor (name has been changed) when he was a high school senior in 2014. Coincidentally, as part of another role I had with the district to develop relationships with the business community, I was organizing a field trip to a tech company. These companies were eager for qualified young candidates to fill positions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 1st A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update November 12th, 2014 One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. As a not-for-profit company, our ambition is to raise achievement and empower learners with skills for learning, skills for employment, skills for life.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Ramm, who was part of the first cohort of Fuse fellows in 2014, was already providing support sessions for teachers and administrators in her district. Fuse fellow Debbie Ramm, the instructional technology coordinator for Johnston Public Schools, was one of the first to begin fielding calls from teachers.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

It’s happened to all of us– we’re at school trying to access the perfect website for a learning activity at school and… it’s blocked. While banning books is commonly recognized by librarians as detrimental to the student educational experience, restricted website access isn’t on everyone’s radar.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s no great overstatement to say that the Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to rollback net neutrality protections has shaken the education community’s faith in open and equitable internet access for all students. Since it began in the 1990s, E-Rate has helped bring high-speed internet access to 97 percent of U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Educational technology company Oddcast launched a new version of its Voki website for teachers along with a free iOS application called Voki for Education. Voki also offers an ever growing library of Common Core-aligned lessons – reimagined as Voki presentations. Voki can be customized for a variety of subjects.

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Education Superhighway

MAY 13, 2016

public schools still lack access to high-speed fiber connections. The FCC is helping schools make the necessary investments in their broadband infrastructure through December 2014’s Second E-rate Modernization order , which provides public school districts and libraries with new options for funding fiber special construction projects.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Schlachter transformed her research into a company, which became a life, which became a legacy. Students hungry for higher education even when few colleges cared much about them—they could go to a library, use Schlachter’s books and find money to fund their academic ambitions. Then one for people of color. Get them better treatment?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

When Apple released its first iPad seven years ago, the company thought one area it would revolutionize was education. Now everyone will have access to the same kind of learning resources and training to help them prepare for coursework and take their studies seriously.” But today the device’s presence in classrooms is spotty.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

The University of Akron launched the GenEd Core Pilot Program in Fall 2015 to help increase access to higher education. Gwinnett County Public Schools launched Brightspace in the 2014-15 school year to transform the instruction of its more than 172,000 students through the use of blended learning both in and out of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them. As recently as 2014, twice as many moved out than moved in. workers, a Gallup survey found. Department of Education.

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