Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

More than 20,000 online courses have been created by over 8,000 educators, the company claims. After Dror-Nam met the philanthropist in 2015, the company received a $4.5 His company has attracted big dollars from investors as well. For every university, change management is just as critical a factor as financial investment.

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Adaptive Learning Tools Company Learning 95

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by piloting next-generation adaptive OER courseware.

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Adaptive Learning OER Learning Course 82

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally.

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Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 14, 2015

July 16-20, 2015 (Live and Video Recordings Available). Many amazing educators will be presenting: Kathy Cassidy, Jackie Gerstein, Pernille Ripp, Beth Hammett, Trevor Muir, Diana Gettman Flores, Erin Klein, Nick Provenzano, Starr Stackstein, Michelle Baldwin, and more!! Friday, July 17, 2015. Friday, July 17, 2015.

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Conference Differentiated Instruction Blended Learning Adaptive Learning 150

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education plan to join forces in an all-stock merger. Dr. Nana Banerjee, who holds that title for McGraw-Hill Education, is expected to depart after the deal goes through. McGraw-Hill Education is currently owned by Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm that bought the company for $2.4

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Pearson Company Adaptive Learning Report 167

Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

The Common Sense Education team just returned from a fabulous four days at the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia. It was great to connect with the thousands of educators who came by our booth, attended our sessions, and entertained us with their impressive karaoke skills. What a trip!

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Blendspace 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. 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. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 148

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

Even proponents of educational technology admit that a lot of software sold to schools isn’t very good. 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.

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Software Study Adaptive Learning Knewton 75

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

Roorda took the helm at ACT in October 2015, replacing its previous CEO Jon Whitemore. Under his watch, the Iowa City, Iowa-based nonprofit invested heavily in education technology companies to expand its services beyond test prep. million in New Markets Venture Partners, an education technology venture investment firm.

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Assessment Adaptive Learning Company Technology 92

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

million students and over 620,000 educators across more than 23,000 schools nationwide. Back then, leveraging technology for explicit, systematic, and personalized instruction was a novel concept for schools and educators. Among those strategic milestones was first joining with language learning system creator Rosetta Stone Inc.

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Company Professional Learning Assessment Groups 52

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

New Markets is bringing back a familiar face to steer its next education investment fund. His newest role—as general partner at New Market Venture Partners—coincides with the first closing on a new education fund. His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. The Fulton, Md.-based

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EdTech Kaplan lynda.com Company 141

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? How many of us can say that we’re truly transforming more than a small handful of other educators?

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Software Adaptive Learning STEM Conference 100

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

There’s tension between the traditional idea that education is an individual pursuit and the current emphasis on collaboration. Adaptive learning is not right for every situation. But, on the other hand, if you are talking about students failing algebra, then adaptive learning can be very useful. It is hard.

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Adaptive Learning Kaplan Course Software 119

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. funding) Can Investors Make Money and Do Good in Education? That was not the case in 2015, when.

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EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

A few days earlier, that company’s competitor Reasoning Mind was acquired by Imagine Learning, a private equity-backed curriculum company. The Seoul, South Korea-based education company was purchased by Daekyo , an operator of after-school learning centers and academic enrichment programs in the country. schools market.

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Company Software Adaptive Learning Technology 113

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Education Politics. Many in higher education opposed a British exit, or Brexit, from the union, arguing that membership in the E.U. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With two executive orders, Gov. That’s what former Department of Education folks, Arne Duncan and Jim Shelton, have done. “The U.S.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 21, 2016

Together we’ll explore the future of libraries and attitudes about the future of higher education shared by campus leaders and experts. ” The centerpiece for the second part of this Forum is the fascinating February report, “Higher Ed Insights: Results of the Fall 2015 Survey” . .”

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Libraries Trends Adaptive Learning Survey 40

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?

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Technology Adaptive Learning Training Course 60

ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Education is in a state of rapid change. Within this fluid environment, educators are striving to adapt. One important adaptation is the shakeup of classroom design. Schools are creating classroom layouts that support successful 21 st century learning. Educators are embracing the need to adapt learning spaces.

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Trends Classroom Software Blackboard 170

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. I do so in Seymour’s memory.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

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.

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Technology Adaptive Learning Learning Assessment 40

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

These solutions promise to broaden access to quality education, engaging learners who might not make it through impersonal introductory lectures. Students receive individual feedback on their progress and their learning experiences change based on their performance. “We Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem. A Word of Caution.

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Adaptive Learning Software EdTech Course 60

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

Pearson today announced that it is responding to rocky conditions and poor performance in international markets by laying off 4,000 workers and putting a greater focus on adaptive courseware and classroom products, as well as blended and online learning. Ramping Up Online Programs.

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Pearson Company Education Common Core 40

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Global funding for educational technology has risen to a record $2.98 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. Many of the Biggest Education Deals Playing Out Overseas.

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Knewton Schoology Common Core Analysis 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. More details on Mark Zuckerberg’s education investment portfolio can be found at funding.hackeducation.com.

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 3, 2021

In 2015 (and updated most recently in 2018), I wrote a post about helping students learn more from ‘others’ than they do from you (the teacher). The Education We Have And The Education They Need. No matter how hard we work, what we have and do isn’t the education they deserve and need.

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Social Media Adaptive Learning System Policies 115

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He is the founder of Injini , an edtech accelerator based in South Africa, that launched this year to support education startups from across the continent. That was when he saw firsthand “not only the scale of educational failure on the continent, but also the barriers to solving it,” he recalls via email. Yet the U.S.

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EdTech Pearson Company Industry 97

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

The biggest education company in the world is moving away from a production model that has been one of the main drivers in the rising cost of textbooks. higher education courseware sales in 2015. We need to be asking this of all digital materials, even open educational resources.”

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Pearson OER Company Knewton 166

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). ST Unitas , South Korea’s largest education business, acquired Princeton Review , the iconic U.S. Yet education ministries across Asia recognize they need more than test-takers; they need students who can ideate, create and compete in a global economy. Last month. Authess $2.2

EdTech 100

EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 100

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” More via Buzzfeed and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “What You Need to Know About Race-Conscious Admissions in 2017.” In the past, Secretaries of Education have just used the department’s own force.

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

(National) Education Politics. US Secretary of Education spoke to ALEC this week. Here’s a list of education organizations that are members or sponsors.) (Here’s a list of education organizations that are members or sponsors.) But as Education Week reports , “States Bristle as DeVos Ed.

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Education Politics. “ Betsy DeVos , Pick for Secretary of Education , Is the Most Jeered” by The New York Times’ Dana Goldstein. Via The LA Times : “ Betsy DeVos ‘is unprepared and unqualified ’ to be Education secretary, charter school booster Eli Broad says.” ” asks The Atlantic.

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Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

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. The company also has contracts with ministries of education in Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Portugal and the U.K. A closed market doesn’t grow.

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Assessment Elsevier Knewton Company 63

techieMusings

JULY 24, 2015

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Strategy Adaptive Learning Outcomes Video 50

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. In higher education, it’s paramount that we be able to recognize patterns and trends early in the life of a cutting-edge project. “No one can see a bubble.

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Trends Adaptive Learning Outcomes Personalized Learning 60