The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2023

Microsoft 's Free AI Course for Educators Microsoft has an amazing artificial intelligence course for educators that will help you and your education team have the knowledge you need to understand the best practices for artificial intelligence in schools. I highly recommend this free AI course from Microsoft. AIforEducators.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Two of the largest higher-education systems in the country are partnering to pilot an online course finder tool to increase students’ access to 10,000 online and transferable courses. Students may use the course finder to finish CSU breadth or general-education requirements during the summer to help them graduate on time.

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Neo LMS

MAY 30, 2019

Using a principle called Starting Strong , in 2015 the government decreed that while non-compulsory pre-primary education (6 years) would have a basic curriculum (designed and issued by national government), as well as policies and standards monitored and managed by local municipalities. Student involvement and game-based learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

On the other hand, there is a paucity of coverage about edtech companies that grow their businesses with little or no venture capital or outside investment. Bootstrapped companies rarely have “unicorn” potential and most aren’t nearly as sexy as their venture-backed counterparts. In a way, it makes sense. Below is our story.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2021

Going after an industry giant in K-12 college and career planning wasn’t what Katie Fang originally had in mind when she started SchooLinks in 2015. For counselors, there are application management trackers, a communication dashboard, course planners and other administrative tools for meeting state reporting compliance requirements.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. Demand for shorter, more focused courses is growing, and universities are finding themselves “unbundling” their core offerings in order to keep up. It seems that technical training is less relevant here than e-learning course design.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. The company says its tools are used by more than 30 million people across the education and corporate learning markets. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

The nonprofit MOOC platform edX, originally started by MIT and Harvard University at a time when pundits predicted large-scale online courses could replace college for some people, is trying yet another new approach, launching the first of what it calls a “MicroBachelors” program.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 6, 2023

Of course, educators and administrators could look at past success stories, research data, etc. While there are benefits to long-term analysis, the panelists explained their key reasons for choosing RCE: They can identify if a program is having a quantifiable impact on their students now and change course if needed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

Since launching in 2015, the New York-based startup has partnered with 21 universities to offer its programs and student coaching services. CEO and founder Dan Sommer says with the added funds, his company will be looking at growing its offerings to nearly 10 programs in subject areas like user experience and design.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. That was the focus of the company for its first nine years—or “chapter one,” as Paucek described in a conference call with investors on Monday morning. The two companies officially signed the deal at 6 p.m.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2019

Source: JMDedu According to Baidu Index, the keyword search rate for adult English learning peaked in 2015. Taiwan-based iTutorGroup, which started in 1998 and raised $15 million in venture capital in 2012, completed a Series C financing round of $200 million in November 2015, which valued the company at more than $1 billion.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) transfixed higher education in the early 2010s, so much so that The New York Times dubbed 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." According to the Times, the first edX online courses had a staggering 370,000 registrants. The first two cohorts of the course drew nearly 37,000 people. (To

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Another 2015 study shows that only 30% of teachers improve substantially with PD. Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged. Often a life coach doesn’t even work for the company of the person they are coaching. Books, Videos, Courses, and Conferences.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Both companies trace their lineage to top-pedigree universities: Carnegie grew out of research on computer-based instructional systems started by Carnegie Mellon researchers. Carnegie Learning spun out as an independent company in 1998. After it became an independent company in 2014, Harel raised another $3.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Every now and then, it's been hard to do a call while the kids are screaming or something like that, but between meetings, to see them or have lunch with them or go on a walk with them, that part has been actually quite nice.” EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic? They were real education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. It was a policy change that greatly encouraged the growth of “telecommunications correspondence” courses.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Stride Inc.,

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

So in 2015, Wang and partner Kristoph Oedman founded ProGuides to provide training with professional gamers and educational resources. “We EdSurge: In the five years since you launched ProGuides, how has the company grown? A selection of ProGuides training courses How does the training process work? to talk about a new idea.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

News Best Colleges rankings from 1995 to 2015, university inflation has grown at profound rates. Government can garnish wages and withhold tax refunds to meet student loan debt requirements. *If Many companies now offer tuition assistance to full and part time students. Company Education Programs. According to U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2020

Carlson and Brittany Stich started Guild in 2015 to help working adults, particularly those without a high school diploma, gain education through tuition benefits from their employer. Today more than 3 million employees are eligible for Guild programs through their employers, including those at Walmart, Chipotle and the Walt Disney Company.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

Among a slew of teaching awards, Garg has received UCLA’s Eby Award for the Art of Teaching and was named the 2015 California Professor of the Year. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. Let Professor Neil Garg Inspire Your Course Design. See how Course Hero can help inspire your course design.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Having traveled the nation and spent extensive time in schools throughout 2015, there’s one thing I can say for sure: Many of today’s classrooms have amazing 21st century tools sitting in 20th century learning environments. This post is sponsored by Samsung. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. Increasingly, MOOCs are being packaged into series of courses with a non-degree credential being offered to those who successfully complete the series.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course. In 2015 Deb was selected as a PBS Lead Digital Innovator and in 2018 she was selected as a PBS All Star. Listen Now. How does that work?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. Photo: Stuart Isett for The Washington Post via Getty Images. The first trickle of graduates is expected next summer.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

That isn’t something that can be achieved in a day, of course. We wanted to create a different course—a course that requires students to address problems creatively, develop empathy, persevere through failure and learn from it. One facet the course highlights is practical, real-world experience.

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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. I had to take this course through the Computer Science dept. Teachers are unprepared.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

And they also have an influence when it comes to meeting with legislators and other individuals that make policies. Vicki: So… that’s a lot of meetings to have! How do you make time for meetings with these groups? How do you make time for meetings with these groups? So they have to see their connection to that.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

The firm, Bay Capital Finance, recently purchased shares in the publicly traded company and is actively moving to exert control. Bay Capital also wants to replace BNED’s board, but the company has also refused to allow the fund to nominate members at an upcoming annual stockholders meeting.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2017

Understand how a teacher can use graphic novels (a/k/a Comic Books) to meet standards, excite kids, and teach at the same time. I found that the best way for me is using Marvel Civil War , which goes into regulation, but of course it’s a fictional telling of it. How Kyle got permission to use comics in his course.

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