Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Fueled by an explosion of broadband access, education software and, of course, the irresistible allure of financial returns, investors across the world want a slice of the U.S. The new fund (simply dubbed “Owl Ventures II”) will support companies that serve a broad range of learners, from preschoolers to professionals. edtech industry.

EdTech 86

EdTech Broadband Company Software 86

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.

Company 97

Company Video Broadband Report 97

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Check out what your local school pays for broadband here. Part Two: The Funding Figuring out how to fund the development of education technology continued to be complex: Investors in US edtech startups hit a high-water mark in 2015 with US companies raising $1.45

EdTech 60

EdTech Report Trends Broadband 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

iPad 82

iPad Broadband Software Company 82

Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Furthermore, the adoption of EdTech has presented an opportunity for companies to build products that cater to evolving needs of users. EdTech companies need to make smarter decisions in terms of user experience because if a product fails to cater to a vast majority of users, they will eventually turn to another product that does.

eBook 59

eBook Education EdTech Broadband 59

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The short answer: It takes a lot, but companies and researchers are up to the challenge. The research followed a charter school management organization that co-designed technology with the nonprofit company Gooru. The need for high-speed broadband internet in every classroom in the U.S.

Trends 40

Trends Broadband Strategy Learning 40

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

It makes sense to construe broadband and wireless providers as common carriers, like telephone companies and utilities. In 2015, a group of female tech investors and executives conducted a survey of two hundred senior-level women in Silicon Valley. Here are 5 links to some interesting reads (plus a video). "

Broadband 52

Broadband Guidelines Survey Report 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Providing hosted services rather than giving districts the software to install on their own servers is better for edtech companies; it makes their products easier and cheaper to deploy and maintain. Cybercrime is the next threat.

EdTech 60

EdTech E-rate Symantec Data 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said. “We I said ‘OK, this actually could happen.’”. The early finish hasn’t changed the organization’s planned closing date of August 2020.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 49

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In a sneak peek of the results from the forthcoming CoSN third annual E-Rate & Broadband Survey, which will be available by mid-October, the vast majority of U.S. Step 5: Take advantage of special broadband offerings. These programs typically are available to low-income families (for example, broadband for $9.95

Broadband 40

Broadband Mobility E-rate Survey 40

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 28, 2015

Located on a large island in the middle of the Columbia River, Sauvie Island Academy faced several roadblocks to obtaining sufficient broadband speeds. Understand the Broadband Landscape. First, EducationSuperHighway’s network consultants conducted an in-depth analysis of the island’s broadband landscape.

Broadband 40

Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Analysis 40

eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2016

However, only 18 percent of teachers reported the majority of students have access to the digital tools they need at home, which left those students without access to broadband at a significant disadvantage. As a starting point, other companies must recognize the connection between digital inclusion and business success.

Digital Divide 40

Digital Divide Broadband Company Accessibility 40

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Tagged on: July 21, 2017 A complex web of factors influence children’s commercial media literacy | LSE Business Review → If they don’t know an ad from information, how can they grasp how companies use their personal data? ask Sonia Livingstone, Kjartan Ólafsson and George Maier. Unified gets a $3.26-million

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Kemper also recently served as chair of the board of directors of the Schools, Health, & Libraries Broadband Coalition, which supports open, affordable broadband connections for local community organizations. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

Libraries 56

Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 56

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

education technology companies raised $1.45 billion, matching the previous high for the single-year funding total of this decade, set in 2015. There’s a notable difference between 2018 and 2015, however. In 2015 there were 165 deals, versus just 112 in 2018. Last year, U.S. The funding total in 2018 also eclipsed the $1.2

EdTech 153

EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 153

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Kemper also recently served as chair of the board of directors of the Schools, Health, & Libraries Broadband Coalition, which supports open, affordable broadband connections for local community organizations. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

Libraries 41

Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 41

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. In May 2015, the district extended ChiTech’s reprieve until 2018. Related: A school district is building a DIY broadband network.

Report 66

Report Study Software Meeting 66

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Kemper also recently served as chair of the board of directors of the Schools, Health, & Libraries Broadband Coalition, which supports open, affordable broadband connections for local community organizations. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

Libraries 36

Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Kemper also recently served as chair of the board of directors of the Schools, Health, & Libraries Broadband Coalition, which supports open, affordable broadband connections for local community organizations. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

Libraries 41

Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 41

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

In 2017, the same survey reported 44 percent of respondents found the EPC portal “difficult to use,” compared with 50 percent in 2015 and 2016. Even more troublesome than the delays are flat-out denials, says Evan Marwell, CEO of EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that advocates for improved broadband in schools. 1 target date.

E-rate 84

E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 84

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. In March 2015, the Aspen Institute appointed Hildreth a Communication and Society Program Fellow.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. In March 2015, the Aspen Institute appointed Hildreth a Communication and Society Program Fellow.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

However, this lag began to erode when the rise of cloud computing made it possible for edtech startups to flood the market with educational applications, the expansion of broadband internet gave those apps an easy distribution channel into campuses, and an increasing number and variety of mobile devices provided them an in-school abode.

Analysis 161

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 161

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

While looking for solutions to the recurring DDoS attack problem, McCune learned about the built-in instruction detection and prevention firewall that the district had at its avail, but wasn’t using, from a company called Juniper Networks.

Accessibility 40

Accessibility Google Microsoft Company 40

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

An after-school club of middle school girls assembled and programmed these printers with grant-purchased kits from the Ohio-based education technology company INVENTORCloud. Computing devices and broadband Internet are abundant both inside and outside of school. You have to keep trying until you get the result that you want.”.

Robotics 28

Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Companies that oppose net neutrality generally argue that they favor openness but feel that government regulation is unnecessary and can stifle competition. He added that after the classification changed in 2015, "infrastructure investment declined.” Speaking at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

Libraries 90

Libraries Policies Broadband Mobility 90

MindShift

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” The 2015 rules are meant to prevent internet providers, such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, from controlling what people can watch and see on the internet. Companies can’t block access to any websites or apps, and can’t meddle with loading speeds.

E-rate 58

E-rate Classroom Libraries Broadband 58

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

The message, from Zach Leverenz, founder of the nonprofit EveryoneOn, attacked the Educational Broadband Service (EBS), which long ago granted school districts and education nonprofits thousands of free licenses to use a slice of spectrum — the range of frequencies that carry everything from radio to GPS navigation to mobile internet.

Broadband 88

Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 88

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” More on this scramble to serve (profit from) low-income broadband customers in the upgrades/downgrades section below.

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The great irony is that the multimillion-dollar cable was planted in the Arctic by an Anchorage-based telecommunications company thanks, in large part, to global warming. A little-known Anchorage-based company called Quintillion was launching a multimillion-dollar commercial venture with support from a New York private-equity firm.

Broadband 85

Broadband Report Accessibility Video 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. You might read the signals of the health of ed-tech startups in the departure of their founders – both from leadership positions and from their companies altogether. Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. K12 Inc got a new CEO.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.” ” The company has raised $16.5

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” ” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” ”). The cause : a typo.

Education 40

Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

No doubt, Udacity, Coursera, and edX have been moving away from “free” and “open” online education for a while now , charging fees for courses and certificates and acting much more like online program management companies – third party vendors for Internet-based courses and degree programs.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” Via The New York Times : “DeVos Abandons Plan to Allow One Company to Service Federal Student Loans.”

Khan Academy 46

Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” ” I’ll be adding student loan company Quiklo to the ed-tech dead pool. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015.” ” From the HR Department.

Kaplan 50

Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50