eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. The need for high-speed broadband internet in every classroom in the U.S. Approximately 70,000 of Arizona’s K-12 students are ELLs.

Trends 40

Trends Broadband Strategy Learning 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

But computing power, device adoption, pervasive broadband and exponentially networked collaboration platforms of the past decade have already moved us to a world of information abundance. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014.

Udemy 127

Udemy Kaplan Industry Coursera 127

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

We called it “The State of EdTech: Forces and Trends Shaping K12 Edtech” report. Part One: The Trends Our initial survey focused on the big trends that all these players saw shaping education technology. Check out what your local school pays for broadband here.

EdTech 60

EdTech Report Trends Broadband 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The report, “ The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens ,” updates a 2015 study by the same name from the nonprofit organization. The total amount of screen media time, not including screen time for school or homework, has remained relatively steady between 2015 and 2019 for tweens and is only slightly up for teens.

Survey 82

Survey Laptops Broadband Smartphone 82

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. Gartner projects that spending on U.S K-12 software will reach around $4.5 billion by 2023. Specific to college textbooks, print-only titles accounted for 45 percent of U.S.

Chegg 158

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 158

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. 2015, focused on K-12 companies (with one exception). edtech industry. All three deals came from Owl’s second fund.

EdTech 79

EdTech Broadband Company Software 79

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Improving network speed and capacity and increasing competition for broadband services remain significant challenges to districts as well, the survey reveals. Despite these affordability challenges, there are some positive trends. This means many more schools have the capacity to provide broadband speeds to the school door.

E-rate 40

E-rate Broadband Survey System 40

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

To begin this exploration, it's important to first review the most recent research on student access to broadband and devices in the home. Approximately 70 percent of teachers assign homework that requires access to broadband. The good news: Most American homes with school-age children do have broadband access -– about 82.5

Broadband 40

Broadband Survey Policies Smartphone 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

In late 2015, Education SuperHighway received a $20 million grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, the charitable group of the chief executive of Facebook and his wife, a pediatrician. One of the great motivating factors in this trend is leaders at the federal and state level making school connectivity a priority.

Meeting 40

Meeting E-rate Broadband Blended Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I Choose as many newsletters as you like.

E-rate 48

E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 48

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. And EducationSuperHighway brought pricing transparency to school district broadband purchasing.

iPad 78

iPad Broadband Software Company 78

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

PLUS we'll immediately send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 10 websites, 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. In March 2015, the Aspen Institute appointed Hildreth a Communication and Society Program Fellow.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Arlington is a fast-growing district, and Discovery Elementary opened in 2015 as part of an ongoing school-building program (it shares a campus with a middle school with a trailer park to accommodate its overflowing student population). RELATED: A school district is building a DIY broadband network. RELATED: Psst!

Elementary 105

Elementary Learning Data Report 105

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Those interactions look a lot different than just evaluating consumer or edtech trends in isolation. What edtech and consumer trends will be significant for when a teen leaves high school? A trend, in this case, is a series of crossover developments that have staying power. Outside of the U.S., But in the U.S., it was only 21.6

Analysis 154

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 154

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

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. On the whole, bigger but fewer deals is a trend common across all U.S. Last year, U.S. investment activity.

EdTech 145

EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 145

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

Learning 77

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

hours a day. . : “I thought this was impossible, and we are DOING it:” Making Everyday Life Better for Families by Supporting Young Children’s Self-Directed Learning Kate Baker, M.Ed and MAIT : Beyond the Buzzwords: How to infuse SEL, flipped learning, & more into everyday activities Kate Baker, M.Ed

Conference 34

Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

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

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. Icon credits: The Noun Project

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.” But only if you let it. Don’t.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

A study released in 2015 found that colleges were increasingly turning to adjuncts to teach online classes, and those hiring patterns – that is, the hiring of part-time, contingent instructors rather than tenure-track professors – have likely continued in recent years as higher education has expanded its online offerings.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

One of the challenges of writing this series – and trust me, there are many – is separating my analysis out into ten articles that name ten distinct “trends.” But when trying to write about ten “trends,” it’s evident: everything overlaps. The politics overlap with privacy.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40