eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2023

Collegiate varsity esports began in 2014 when Robert Morris University created scholarships for a League of Legends e-sports team. billion industry in 2022. The videogaming industry is forecasted to grow 7 percent annually and likely to top $200 billion in revenue in 2023.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

In 2014, Mitch co-founded Edchat Interactive with Tom Whitby and Steve Anderson. Mitch served on the Board of the Ed-Tech Industry Network (ETIN) of the SIIA from 2012-2019, was cochair from 2015-2016, and was the chair in 2019. Mitch helps organizations succeed in the education market.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Will 2014 be the year when wearable technology emerges as the next stage in our connected future? In the January 2014 issue of Wired Magazine , he argues that whilst the last decade has been about smart mobile technologies, the next decade will be about wearable computing. Ben Hammersley seems to think so. Unported License.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 7, 2016

The Education Industry Association, which struggled to keep membership after a downturn in federal funding for tutoring, is joining a division of the Software & Information Industry Association, or ETIN, effective immediately, under an agreement announced today. Terms of the agreement were not released.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2022

And Singapore launched a tailored coding class for primary and secondary school students as early as 2014. Moreover, programming languages such as SQL, Java, JavaScript, C#, and Python are increasingly important to master regardless of profession or industry.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

And it’s good news: Students tested in 2018 showed improvements over those in 2014, the year the first NAEP Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) assessment was administered. Out of a possible 300 points, students in 2018 scored an overall average of 152, compared with 150 in 2014. Eight points higher (156 to 148), to be exact.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Do former CTE students find jobs in the industries they studied? Beginning in 2014, the state sought to improve CTE instruction, better align course offerings with the job market and increase funding. By 2018, the number of industry-recognized credentials students earned, signaling they attained specific job skills, had grown fivefold.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 12, 2016

The number and value of mergers and acquisitions in the education industry rose sharply over the most recent year, fueled by deals in professional training and by consolidation in some areas of K-12, a new analysis has found. The post Education Industry Mergers, Acquisitions Jumped Significantly in 2015 appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Without larger industry commitments to make the deletion of that data upon quitting operations the norm, he says, it comes down to the conscience of the company in question. In 2014, for example, ConnectEDU’s bankruptcy triggered federal attempts to block the sale of student data.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

A similar chain of events happened in the education technology industry just a few years ago, when California’s passing of SOPIPA in 2014 setting off a flood of similar rules in other states. Of course, it is also likely that the CCPA will set off a national conversation.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The gaming industry thrived, and educators looked for ways to capitalize on that. Microsoft purchased “Minecraft,” an immensely popular world-building game, in 2014, and immediately churned out an education edition.

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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 25, 2014

On Monday, January 27, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Jack Uldrich, Renowned Global Futurist and Best Selling Author Why Future Trends in Higher Education Demand Unlearning In the past 100 years, the world has witnessed a startling amount of change—everything from mass industrialization and globalization to space flight and longer life expectancies.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2022

Despite state revenues being back to pre-recession levels by 2014, many states still have not increased school funding to pre-recession levels. But now, staff are leaving the industry in favor of other careers in other industries. Technology also has an opportunity to solve another problem contributing to staffing shortages.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Then it was flipped and sold in 2014 to GIC, a Singapore-based wealth fund, an investment group affiliated with Insight Venture Partners and others, for $752 million.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With billion-dollar fundraises on top of billion-dollar valuations , it’s no mystery that the education technology industry is attracting top dollars from investors. million in venture capital that the startup has raised since its launch in 2014. And as it turns out, edtech companies are attracting a premium from buyers as well.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

Emerging out of the LIVE Lab at Texas A&M University, in 2014, André Thomas and Rahul Khanorkar founded game-based learning company Triseum combining legacies in game development, design graphics, market development and management. Triseum has quickly changed the landscape of the emerging Game-Based Learning (GBL) industry.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

And Singapore launched a tailored coding class for primary and secondary school students as early as 2014. Moreover, programming languages such as SQL, Java, JavaScript, C#, and Python are increasingly important to master regardless of profession or industry.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In addition to developing important skills that can help students succeed in just about anything they do, esports itself is a fast-growing industry that offers many job opportunities beyond being a pro player. In 2014, Robert Morris University was the first to offer an esports scholarship. Expanded career opportunities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

The Farmington, Utah-based provider of online courses for technology professionals has been on the radars of industry analysts ever since its $135 million Series B fundraise in 2014. edtech industry since Instructure, another Utah-based company, went public in November 2015. That year, it also added former U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book. What I have described above only accounts for a small subset of the changes we have seen since 2014.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 23, 2024

LinkedIn Learning LinkedIn Learning is a leading platform for online education, with a wide library of courses taught by industry experts. Learners can be trained on new software tools, improve their leadership skills, or make use of the vast training resources available.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But it is also fraught with risk, and the tech industry has not done enough to mitigate the risks. Funded in 2014 with $100 million from the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, inBloom intended to collect massive amounts of personally identifiable student data and use it to “personalize” learning to each student.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

As a spectator sport and as an industry. Computer-related occupations are the largest projected category of new jobs between 2014 – 2024. (By Esports as an industry is an expanding area of study at colleges and universities. Esports are here to stay. In colleges and in high schools. And in no small way. By a long shot.)

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“Kelli has a track record of strong leadership in the EdTech industry, established relationships with K-12 school districts, and success in private equity value creation. We are confident that Kelli is the right leader to accelerate the company’s growth opportunities.” We partner with school districts across the U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

an adaptive learning platform company with industry-leading expertise in learning science, early learning, and data analytics worldwide. Those include ALEKS Corporation in 2013, the LearnSmart technology in 2014 and Redbird Advanced Learning in 2016. McGraw Hill today announced that it has acquired Kidaptive, Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

By bridging the gap between what high schools teach and industries need, P-TECH, initially a partnership among IBM, the New York City school system and City Tech, has opened doors for thousands of students in communities with high concentrations of poverty. Credit: Liz Willen. Just 14 percent finish within two years of starting.

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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. Nepris tries to accommodate demands by connecting the teacher with industry professionals who are available on the day requested.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Japan has earned a reputation for exporting successful products and services from different industries. But when it comes to the education technology industry, few people outside the country can name Japanese companies off the top of their heads. In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking It’s “driving more accountability,” said Tal Havivi, senior director of industry partnerships at the International Society for Technology in Education, which connects educators and ed tech providers. School districts will have to make choices.” But at first, few teachers took note.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Google Classroom-2014. Even as industry has built fresh tools for students, we too frequently left educators on their own, scrambling to keep up. These days, millions of students in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Dev Bootcamp , a pioneer in the coding school industry that was among the first to offer short-term, intensive programs to help learners acquire web development and programming skills, announced it will be shutting its doors on December 8. acquisition by Kaplan in 2014. That decision was driven by money.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

Brekhus’ story was just one shared from the main stage during the last day of the Software & Information Industry Association’s Ed Tech Industry Conference in San Francisco this week. “Lightspan employees never understood why they were bought,” Brekhus told a crowd Wednesday.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. The industry has been proven wrong so many times. “But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S. classrooms from kindergarten through high school.” billion to $3.3 K-12 software will reach around $4.5

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

short-lived experiment in the coding bootcamp industry ). Home-run bets and financial windfalls are rare in the edtech industry. The biggest exit in the edtech industry—Lynda.com’s $1.5 The new money comes at a time when traditional venture capital firms are taking a breather. Few Big Exits.

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Hapara

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The limits of one-size-fits-all education Traditional teacher-centered instruction may have functioned in the age of mass industrialization. A study from 2014 correlated personalized learning plans with increased motivation, sense of belonging and connectedness to school.

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