Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

First announced in 2014, the challenge invited organizations to submit open-source software that showed potential to help children in developing countries improve basic reading, writing and math skills. The app offers a library of books and videos and 2,400 learning activities across 22 sessions covering math and reading.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Have a great classroom library. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. December 18, 2014.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

But students at some colleges and universities still rely on print , which is a problem when bookstores and libraries have closed. Academic libraries have huge physical collections,” says Sherwood, 28. Founded in 2014, the London-based company provides digital content from 2,000-plus publishers. In the U.K.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 20, 2021

We've posted a new blog post from Dr. Steve Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security" section of Library 2.0 : "Is There Hidden Bias at Your Library?" It has been illegal for many decades for companies to use biases to discriminate against people during hiring, and how they are supervised or promoted.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Jackson Boyar and James Lu Morrissey founded Mentor Collective as a nonprofit in 2014. The company focuses on serving three audiences: adult and online learners, first-year students and those seeking career development. In January 2019, the university signed a three-year contract with the company.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Founded in 2014, the company has amassed a network of 70,000 educators and 31,000 industry professionals, all with the goal of showing different career paths to students as early as kindergarten. The Plano, Texas-based company can also count some more investors as part of its network. Kids don’t know what’s out there.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Our higher education system formed around libraries. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014. Distance reduction allow companies to compete worldwide. To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market following a foray into creating consumer toys. Sphero has acquired littleBits , a New York City-based company best known for its electronic kits and instructional resources that introduce kids to building and programming by hand.

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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

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

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

MAY 6, 2022

Since its creation in 2014, Sora Sweet Reads has proven to be a highly successful, global program in encouraging students to read. The company’s student reading app, Sora , provides every student with access to the right books. If your school offers access to Sora, find your digital collection at [link].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The company has also enlisted artificial intelligence to track hate speech on the platform. Both companies have also published policies around so-called “deepfakes” of manipulated and altered media on their platforms. The company wants input from young people on how they like to learn, she said. “We

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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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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

JULY 22, 2020

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Boiling Lesson Design Down to a Science Her small team of five isn’t trying to reinvent the library of civics content. And perform worse on tests.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. Salvatore’s employer is Paper, which is based in Montreal, Canada and says it is the largest online tutoring company in the United States. Not all online tutoring companies are the same. The pace is grueling.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

This business model—provide the product to schools for free, rely on families to pay for the license—was a gamble for the young company, Rivard Dexter admits, but so far it’s paid off. If the model sounds unique, it’s actually catching on—and showing success—at a handful of other game-based learning companies, including Prodigy and codeSpark.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Risk One: The Threat to Student Privacy Risk one is the invasion of student privacy, utilizing data by tech companies collected when students are online. Yet the company is profitable. But it is also fraught with risk, and the tech industry has not done enough to mitigate the risks. The story of inBloom is a cautionary tale.

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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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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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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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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 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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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Like the flu and MRSA, complications related to foodborne illness are on the upswing, almost doubling in frequency from 2014 to 2017. When cleaning textile-covered surfaces like carpeted libraries or fabric-covered cubicles, opt for a dry polymer cleaning system that uses little moisture.

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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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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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E-rate Broadband Libraries Accessibility 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Earlier this year, online education services company 2U–which powers many leading universities’ online programs– announced a partnership with shared workspace firm WeWork , creating an opportunity to embed its online programs in WeWork locations in cities around the world.

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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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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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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 7, 2022

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. Related Read: 9 Reasons Why Publishers Should Move to Digital eBook Libraries. Digital Publishing / March 27, 2014. The remaining 0.1%

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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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. You don’t need to put that on the blockchain.

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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. Initiative 1: Open Up Networks — Prior to 2014, only “registered users” could access the district’s WiFi networks. Instructional areas such as libraries and classroom got hot spots.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 5, 2019

In 2014, the Federal Communications Commission overhauled the E-rate program, which helps subsidize the cost of internet access and other telecommunications services for schools and libraries. “A multi-pronged approach has generated the surge in school connectivity.

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