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. This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. The two companies officially signed the deal at 6 p.m.

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Company Education MOOC Conference 112

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.

Coursera 150

Coursera lynda.com Training MOOC 150

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Yet a 2015 report by Universities Canada found that less than half of Canadian universities have a strategy to adopt digital technologies.

Secondary 300

Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

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 91

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

A 2015 report found that the lack of AP classes may increase the financial burden on college-bound rural students: Students who don’t take AP classes don’t earn college credit that could enable them to graduate more quickly, and such students are “more likely to pay for additional remedial coursework when beginning college.”.

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

- Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 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.

Pearson 40

Pearson Company Education Common Core 40

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 6, 2016

A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week. Udemy Raises $60 Million: Udemy , a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, received a $60 million strategic investment from Internet and entertainment group Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division.

Udemy 40

Udemy Company Software Google 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts.

STEM 128

STEM Report Course Study 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. DeVonté Trask, 11.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 99

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

Tools 85

Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 85

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to a 2015 study commissioned by the U.S. The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? There was actual real-life stuff in that class.

Company 111

Company Report Trends Study 111

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Broadband 90

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

as refugees in 2015, is desperate for his youngest son to retain his English skills. Two of her students who work for a cleaning company that services a local Home Depot recently sacrificed their lunch break to sit in on a lesson they accessed through their cell phones. Grading will shift to a “pass” or “incomplete” model.

Digital Divide 145

Digital Divide Policies Resources Study 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

April 9th - April 20th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings.

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Conference Libraries Facebook Twitter 28

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Exactly how many schools are actively engaged in iZone projects is unclear: The NYCDOE press office disclosed that 50 schools abandoned the iZone’s iLearn program between 2015 and 2016 to develop their own blended and online learning materials or to use outside resources including Google Classroom, Schoology, or Canvas.

iLearn 63

iLearn Policies Blended Learning Schoology 63

MindShift

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts.

How To 43

How To STEM Course Exercises 43

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The footage acquired was edited into a series videos demonstrating the power and benefits of HMH’s digital-first, connected solutions in a hybrid learning environment. Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma.

Education 109

Education Edmentum Epson Elementary 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In 2015, the Idaho state legislature approved 19 incubator programs to explore the practice inside its schools. The rise of online learning has accelerated it, and school technology providers have been fierce advocates. In the mastery-based learning world, this is largely seen as a positive move. The students at M.S.

Learning 107

Learning Common Core System Groups 107

The Thinking Stick

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

There has been a lot going on with my new adventure that is Eduro Learning. Kim Cofino and I, along with 5 others, founded the company last May. It’s 2015 if you hadn’t noticed, and we’re still in a place where very rarely is technology replacing learning in the classroom in meaningful ways.

Learning 40

Learning Conference Course Laptops 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

The Hechinger Report visited schools in India recently and talked to experts about blended learning – which includes an element of online learning with in-class instruction – and the potential it has for helping both teachers and students in the world’s second-most populous country. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Blended Learning Learning Tablets Training 40

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

Attendees registered for more than 12,000 seats at InfoComm University sessions throughout the week, more than double the number engaged in training and education in 2015. From the editors of eCampus News and eSchool News , here are the 30 companies that displayed future-ready technologies at Infocomm 2016: [Listed in alphabetical order].

Technology 40

Technology Epson Education Microsoft 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize. “We

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Her parents agreed. That’s not the case.”

Education 0

Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We’re living in the most costly, expensive times that I’ve lived through as superintendent,” said Gestson, who has been in that job since 2015. The long-term costs of making up for learning losses over the next few years are expected to far exceed the expenses that schools have already incurred. Travers said.

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Laptops System Policies Meeting 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. One parent at a public meeting said that a police officer had told her that her son “would get better services in jail” than at her local school. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. One early K-12 adopter of the Center’s news-literacy lessons was Janis Schachter, a social studies teacher at Northport High School on Long Island.

Social Media 40

Social Media Learning Facebook Analysis 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Then, without missing a beat, she switched the smartboard display and launched into a multiple-choice quiz using a game-based online learning platform called Kahoot! 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.

Broadband 82

Broadband Report Accessibility Video 82

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. Online Grade Portals.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” EdWeek’s Market Brief on “Implications for K–12 Companies in Trump’s Big Proposed Cuts to Ed. ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Trump Officials Are Learning How Hard It Is to Sell $1 Billion of Their Assets.” ” This includes, of course, billionaire Betsy DeVos.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

” “ Roger Ailes ’ name will be removed from a WOUB newsroom, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis announced Monday during a Faculty Senate meeting,” the Post Athens reports. ” Via the Odyssey Online : “How The University Of New Hampshire Chose To Waste An Alum’s $4m Gift.”

Education 40

Education Report MOOC E-rate 40

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

.” No disclosure in the article that Edsurge shares investors with both these companies. No disclosure , no surprise, that Edsurge shares investors with this company. Via The Next Web : “ Facebook is letting Groups create online learning courses – what could possibly go wrong?” inmate problem?

Education 48

Education MOOC Report Company 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” “Behind Randi Weingarten ’s secret meeting with Steve Bannon ” by Mike Klonsky. ” Via Education Week : “For Online Schools , Unique Challenges in Serving Transgender Students.” ” “Whatever happened to the promise of online learning ?” The George W.

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Muslim students tried to meet with a lawmaker. ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

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