Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 184

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2015

Mark your calendars for March 20, 2015 at 2pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). When he’s not researching, his articles appear in Scientific American, Forbes, and Popular Science, and he makes the occasional appearance on PBS and the Discovery Channel. How will we advance schools in the future? What decisions do we need to make today?

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Trends Learning Company Twitter 150

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article originally appeared on the Clayton Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer.

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Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Online Learning Software 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2019

That’s why when Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Alex Mitchell, suggested this article– The Future of Physical Bookstores in The Digital Age– I said yes almost before reading it. People have noticed that there has been a slump in sales for Barnes and Noble, and the company has closed many locations.

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eBook Digital Citizenship Industry Company 201

EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

The key difference in the past few years, however, has been larger funding rounds and valuations across a fewer number of EdTech companies. This distorts the total private placement numbers we see since the well-funded companies completing the larger private placements pre-IPO comprise a large portion of the overall deal volume.

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Trends EdTech Udemy Company 100

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2018

Image credit: whitealliesintraining.com/2015/10/05/big-idea-change-narrative/ In today's engaging, digitally empowered school setting, questions arise as to whether schools are best suited for educating their learners. An article by Jonathan Gottschall in Fast Company sums it up well: " Humans live in a storm of stories.

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Mobility Company Strategy Data 276

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

LinkedIn originally published this article as part of the LinkedIn’s Avoid Student Debt Series. News Best Colleges rankings from 1995 to 2015, university inflation has grown at profound rates. Many companies now offer tuition assistance to full and part time students. Company Education Programs. According to U.S.

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Company Study Resources Accessibility 222

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Another review , conducted by respected researchers in math education (but funded by a calculator company), came to a similar conclusion. Read the original article.

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Smartphone Secondary Tablets Company 131

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In order for people with STEM majors to keep their edge, they have to invest in continuing education or work for companies willing to make that investment for them, the authors report. Read the original version here.

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STEM Study Analysis Company 140

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin. And the written language includes thousands of special characters.

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Software Company Study Flipped Classroom 146

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 18, 2016

His students will use the MacBook Pro to shoot and edit films like “How to Ace a Job Interview” and to write journalism articles. I’ve been honored to work with Staples since 2015 to support their back to school initiatives. I like to work with companies who support teachers. Take a look at the full press release.

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Classroom Company Twitter Meeting 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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Company Video Broadband Report 94

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Containing nearly 30,000 financial-aid opportunities painstakingly researched over several decades, the database that powered the Reference Service Press book-publishing company faced an uncertain future when Schlachter died in 2015. asked Drew Magliozzi, CEO and co-founder of the startup, which is now called Mainstay.

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Data Accessibility Company Tools 167

Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 20, 2015

The company says you can reuse the notebooks about 25 times, which is very nice. It is scheduled to release in June 2015 - they have already surpassed their initial funding goal by over 1000% so it is happening. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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Google Company Twitter Resources 100

EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

The maximum SAT score 2015 is vastly greater than today’s SAT. I closed a deal with Mark for $250,000 in exchange for a 20 percent equity stake in my test-prep company. Since working with Mark, the company has expanded into 20 new sites throughout the country. There are no penalties for wrong answers. Real world problems.

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Meeting Strategy Course Dropout 185

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

Already, one New York-based edtech company has raised $100 million. It launched in 2015 with $100 million , and re-upped in 2017 with a $185 million coffer. Owl’s other K-12 investments include Abl, a school-scheduling platform, and Newsela, a leveled-reading platform that uses articles from partnering news outlets.

EdTech 93

EdTech Company Industry Outcomes 93

Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Neverware’s CloudReady converts existing computers into fully functional Chromebooks NEW YORK – October 15, 2015 – Neverware announced the availability of a free version of CloudReady, an operating system that, in partnership with Google, turns almost any existing PC or Mac into a fully functional Chromebook. Check it out!

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Chromebook Case Study Laptops Google 100

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

No need to dig far to discern what I think about it as I am quoted in the article. 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. More on this below.).

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 11, 2015

It can be used by people for personal projects and planning as well as by companies and groups for major projects. Our vision at Samepage is to create an online place where people can easily share ideas, content and context” says Scott Schreiman, chief executive officer of Samepage and Kerio Technologies, the parent company to Samepage. “

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Android Facebook Microsoft Mobility 100

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

According to a research article by Peter Barrett et al entitled :The Impact of Classroom Design on Pupils’ Learning: Final Results of a Holistic, Multi-Level Analysis, the visual design of classroom materials can significantly impact learning outcomes ( Barrett et al., I mean, who doesn’t want to make English lessons stick?

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Classroom Elementary Analysis Outcomes 137

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

Before joining Forward Edge in 2015, she worked in adult education, supervised students in an alternative school, taught computer science, and was an instructional technology coach at both the building and K-12 district levels. Katie finished her Ed.D. We need that feedback.

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Technology Training Twitter Collaborative Learning 462

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

That question led him and his wife to launch Tinkergarten in 2015, which offers a play-based, outdoor-learning curriculum that anyone can learn and use to host classes in their local communities. The company will provide organizers with all required materials. Yes, even the gnomes.)

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Knewton Learning Trends Company 113

EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 27, 2015

Here's your #EdTechTidBits for the week of April 21, 2015. I found two new apps, a Disney article, a robotics competition to the moon, and a repository of maker projects! Makerbot Printshop for the iPad The Makerbot company, sellers of the Makerbot 3D printers , released a free iPad app called Makerbot Printshop.

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Android Robotics iPad Google 28

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A 2015 study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that unless students achieve recognized base-lines of proficiency in reading and numeracy/math prior to engaging in a 1:1 program the results are negligible. Once we have that I’m committed to the learning. Teachers are unprepared.

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iPad Outcomes Strategy Company 150

ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 14, 2019

Once used by almost every major tech company to create computer content Flash is being replaced by more modern and open platforms. ” CVE Details , a trusted source for security vulnerability data , identified hundreds of severe security vulnerabilities in Flash each year between 2015 and 2016. .” No new security patches.

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Adobe Strategy Software EdTech 150

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

The partnership ties into where the almost five-year-old company sees itself in the future. This is not the first time the two companies have partnered. They initially came together in 2015 when they created coding activities around Mattel’s Hot Wheels and Monster High brands.

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Company Robotics Course EdTech 71

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2023

She has published numerous educational technology articles and has provided webinars on Virtual Environments, Virtual Reality, 3D Design, QR codes and engagement strategies. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Classroom Microsoft Course Tools 323

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses. ⚡ Class Central (@classcentral) December 8, 2015. Early this year I published an article on Medium which listed 250 Ivy League MOOCs. That article went viral and attracted 2.5

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MOOC Coursera Course Trends 104

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Every wreath was purchased from the for-profit wreath company that created both the nonprofit and the annual event." Then, in 2015, the Wall Street Journal published an article that unnerved me. Worcester family members and former company employees run the charity and have seats on its board. This didn't seem right.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 7, 2017

Guest Article Written By: Bob La Loggia. To be sure, not all university personnel are eschewing social platforms’ value; Kaplan’s study in 2015 suggested that 40 percent of surveyed institutions based potential freshman acceptance rates partially on candidates’ web social interactions. Bob La Loggia.

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Dropout Data Social Media Analysis 220

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. So do most ed-tech companies.

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Robotics Education Competency Based Learning Program Evaluation 120

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2018

Existing investors Rethink Impact, City Light Capital and Triumph Capital LLC also added to the round, which comes nearly a year after the company raised $30 million. The latest raise which brings the company’s total equity funding to $80 million.

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Outcomes Company Training Report 61

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

No need to dig far to discern what I think about it as I am quoted in the article. 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. More on this below.).

EdTech 150

EdTech Social Media Facebook Google 150

Hack Education

JANUARY 31, 2018

When I post an article to Hack Education, it’s (typically) something I’ve thought about and researched and written and re-written. Some $336 million was invested in education companies in the month of January and 14 education companies were acquired, in case you were curious.).

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Analysis Company Data Report 45

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

Jonathan Butler (c), a University of Missouri grad student who did a 7 day hunger strike listens during a forum speaking to students on the campus of University of Missouri – Columbia on November 9, 2015 in Columbia, Missouri. Perhaps the most famous recent protests were at the University of Missouri in fall 2015.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Now, the Salt Lake City-based company is back to growing—this time, on the right track, its current CEO Mick Hewitt insists—with the help of a new funding round. This round is a notable decline from MasteryConnect’s Series B round, which totalled more than $20 million across two closings in 2014 and 2015. Today there are 60 employees.

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Company Assessment EdTech iPad 60

Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

The online survey is facilitated by Project Tomorrow and supported by many of our nation’s most innovative companies, foundations and nonprofit organizations including Blackboard, Inc., Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article. Since 2003, more than 3.7

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