ISTE 2015: 6 Tech Trends on Education's Horizon, 2015–2020
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 30, 2015
Frank Smith The influence of 3D printing, adaptive learning technologies and wearable technologies in the classroom is growing.
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EdTech Magazine
JUNE 30, 2015
Frank Smith The influence of 3D printing, adaptive learning technologies and wearable technologies in the classroom is growing.
Edsurge
JULY 21, 2016
Conner tells EdSurge how the use of adaptive-learning tools offers extraordinarily promising results for more personalized learning and teaching experiences. She adds, however, that “student success in the courses with adaptive-learning systems was not different than in a traditional online course at UMUC.”
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Once known for a learning game, the Redwood City, Calif.-based based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. The company has refocused its business and research around what it calls its “Adaptive Learning Platform.” Back in the U.S.,
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Sharing data, best practices, learning maps, and survey results has moved the needle on adaptive learning forward at our schools. Below, we focus on the joint work of CTU and UMUC, which, along the way, have discovered a common passion for using digital tools to promote student learning. Uniting Around Adaptive Learning.
EmergingEdTech
APRIL 29, 2015
Advanced Adaptive Learning Tool is one of Several Enhancements Targeted to Help Accelerate Grad Rates to 60% D2L has just released its Spring 2015 update for its Brightspace LMS and has backed it up. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 14, 2015
July 16-20, 2015 (Live and Video Recordings Available). Friday, July 17, 2015. 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Beth Hammett – The Future of Education: Adaptive Learning in the 21st Century Classroom. 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Royan Lee – Sketchnoting Like It’s 2015. Friday, July 17, 2015.
Bryan Alexander
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. 2015 had a martyr for textbook costs, but I haven’t seen this inspire any movements towards cheaper texts. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.
Edsurge
MAY 1, 2019
Its acquisitions include Redbird Advanced Learning (a K-12 math, reading and writing curriculum provider) Area9 (an adaptive learning technology) and ALEKS (an online adaptive math program). McGraw-Hill Education filed for an IPO in 2015 but withdrew three years later. It reported $1.6
iLearn Technology
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Sign up TODAY, Woot Math is totally free for the 2015-2016 school year! Woot Math gives students a solid understanding of fractions, laying the necessary ground work for algebra, geometry, physics, chemistry, and statistics. How to integrate Woot Math into your classroom: To begin with Woot Math, decide how you will use it in your classroom.
Edsurge
MARCH 14, 2022
By 2015, the company had raised $100 million in venture capital from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and John Doerr—the fourth biggest fundraising deal of that year. Money came flowing. But like Elizabeth Holmes in biotech, Max has almost no experience in the field of education. But, don’t worry—they had plenty to say about Knewton.
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. The chart below shows how the first half of 2019 compares to the averages posted for each type of round during the full years of 2015 to 2018.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 3, 2024
Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 2011) contend, engage in “an orchestration…a curricular dance (more like a ballet) [adaptive teachers] responsive[ly]teach…and with the slightest change in the instructional ecology of the classroom, change their position in order to support student learning” (p. Madda et al.,
Edsurge
MAY 29, 2020
Roorda took the helm at ACT in October 2015, replacing its previous CEO Jon Whitemore. The group also invested in startups building assessment and adaptive learning technologies, and invested $10.5 Its most recent purchase, ScootPad , offers an online instructional platform for K-8 math and English subjects.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JUNE 28, 2015
Five thoughts from the first couple of days here at the 2015 ISTE Conference… If “it’s not about the technology, it’s about the learning,” then why are we centering so many of our sessions on the tools? Adaptive learning. We should never do that!’? The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013.
Graphite Blog
JULY 3, 2015
Learn how to bring wacky fun to geometry lessons with The Land of Venn; how to personalize math practice and assessment with Front Row; and offer adaptive learning opportunities with Think Through Math. Looking for great tools to support K-8 Common Core math instruction?
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. This fund will be used to support investments between $1 million to $5 million at the Series A and B stages for up to 20 K-12 and higher-ed startups.
eSchool News
JANUARY 10, 2024
Over the decades, the company has introduced technologies to make its science of reading-based approach easier to administer in classrooms.
Edsurge
JULY 26, 2016
Colorado Technical University (CTU) began the adoption of adaptive-learning courses in late 2012. We have just over 100 courses using our proprietary adaptive technology (called intellipath ), 400 faculty trained to use the technology, and approximately 55,000 students who have used it in CTU courses. How did we do it?
Edsurge
AUGUST 10, 2018
In 2015, it partnered with Daekyo—now its majority owner—to offer a different program, Summit Math, to millions of students at Daekyo’s learning centers. based startup that licenses its adaptive-learning technologies to educational content providers. He declined to share how many students are currently using the platform.
District Administration
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
LearnSmart is a proven, adaptive learning technology that precisely determines what a student knows and is struggling with to deliver a personalized learning path of the most critical content. Date of broadcast: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 4:35 pm EST Watch Now Sponsored by: McGraw-Hill Education.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 20, 2016
But they often highlight the promise of so-called “adaptive learning” software, in which complex algorithms react to how a student answers questions, and tailor instruction to each student. Almost 20,000 college students and 300 instructors participated in the experiment over the course of three terms between 2013 and 2015.
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2016
The small amount of research to date on how adaptive learning technology impacts student outcomes is inconclusive. April 2016 study from SRI Education found that students in adaptive courses performed slightly better on assessments than those in a traditional lecture. Where’s the evidence that this makes a difference?”.
Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Overall, funding for global deals in the digital space jumped by 58 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to research from CB Insights , a New York-based market research company. Chinese companies saw a surge of investment, taking in more than $1 billion in 2015, CB Insights found. What’s driving the growth?
Bryan Alexander
MARCH 21, 2016
.” The centerpiece for the second part of this Forum is the fascinating February report, “Higher Ed Insights: Results of the Fall 2015 Survey” . The team then broke down the responses in very useful ways.
techieMusings
JULY 24, 2015
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Previously a consultant and policy adviser to Michael Gove, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of Education, Martin first explored growth opportunities for international education companies in Africa in 2015, after leaving his gig at Boston Consulting Group.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
So says a disgruntled investor to hedge fund manager Michael Burry in the 2015 hit film “The Big Short,” skeptical of the quirky but brilliant Burry’s prediction that the U.S. The types of stakeholders you need working on innovations such as adaptive learning will be varied. “No one can see a bubble. Leading Indicator No.
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2017
Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! million (Seed) 2015 Sinovation Ventures Ready4 $8 million (A) 2016 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund Securly $3 million (Seed) 2013 Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund Swing Education $7.8 Authess $2.2 million (A) 2016 Sinovation Ventures EnglishCentral $1.3
Edsurge
JULY 15, 2019
higher education courseware sales in 2015. And the company envisions that all of its higher ed digital offerings will be part of its cloud-based Global Learning Platform, which he describes as “the adaptive-learning engine of the company.” Pearson has other product launches planned for this year.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Ever since taking the helm as CEO in 2015, Marten Roorda says ACT has closed 10 deals in which it has invested in, acquired or formed strategic partnerships with educational companies. ACT , the nonprofit best known for its college-readiness test, is undergoing a major transformation.
Edsurge
AUGUST 23, 2016
The accelerator is a partnership formed in 2015 between Pasadena, CA-based nonprofit Michelson 20MM Foundation and San Francisco incubator Runway. Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER).
Doug Levin
AUGUST 19, 2015
In 2015, the poll included 34 questions (not counting the a/b/c/d variations of some questions asked only to a fraction of the overall sample), only one (1) of which addressed the topic of technology in education. Source: Education Next – Program on Education Policy and Governance – Survey 2015 [pdf]. So it goes.
Edsurge
JANUARY 10, 2017
billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. That was not the case in 2015, when. Particularly disappointing to Greenfield are “adaptive learning” tools that aim to deliver customized content to learners based on data collected from their performance.
MIND Research Institute
JUNE 18, 2020
Both are part of the ST Math learning model, which helps students understand math concepts through productive struggle and experiential problem-solving. Personalizes and adapts learning to allow students to succeed on grade-level content, regardless of where they start. Jo Boaler, youcubed.org.
Reading By Example
OCTOBER 20, 2016
As a structure is established and the purpose is clear as to why personalized learning is necessary, educators should be evaluating the impact of the technology on the instructional goals and student learning. Yet…students need to know stuff. We live in the information age. National Education Policy Center. Halverson, R., Barnicle, A.,
Edsurge
JULY 13, 2016
Although 42 design firms have been acquired over the past decade, nearly half of the acquisitions happened in the past year (2015), according to the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers influential Design In Tech Report 2016. If design is in the ascendency in private enterprise, does it also have relevance for higher education?
Edsurge
JULY 22, 2016
Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by.
Marketplace K-12
JANUARY 21, 2016
” New school accountability measures in England and Wales caused a steep drop in vocational course-taking, from 700,000 enrollments in 2012 to 320,000 in 2015. There was a decline in higher education enrollments in the United States, due to stronger employment and what the company called “increasing regulation.”
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 25, 2015
Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Integrated Learning Systems” was used back in 1999, and then we moved on to other terms for more or less the same concept. Most ideas are not new.
Reading By Example
OCTOBER 20, 2016
As a structure is established and the purpose is clear as to why personalized learning is necessary, educators should be evaluating the impact of the technology on the instructional goals and student learning. Yet…students need to know stuff. We live in the information age. National Education Policy Center. Halverson, R., Barnicle, A.,
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 25, 2015
Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Integrated Learning Systems” was used back in 1999, and then we moved on to other terms for more or less the same concept. Most ideas are not new.
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. The program used Brightspace to deliver blended learning courses designed with experiential learning elements that allowed them to be offered with significant cost savings.
Marketplace K-12
JANUARY 25, 2016
The partnership represents McGraw-Hill Education’s latest investment in digital research and development; the company estimates that it invested $175 million in digital development and operations in 2015.
Edsurge
JULY 16, 2018
There are newly-funded curriculum and courseware services, games, adaptive learning platforms and study tools. edtech company since Instructure went public in 2015), “exit activities have been incredibly robust,” she says. Coupled with Pluralsight’s IPO (the first for a U.S. million to Adecco, a Swiss human resources firm.
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