Edsurge

JULY 23, 2019

Libraries have long been enthusiastic subscribers to Lynda.com, offering their patrons access to the once-upstart company’s collection of educational videos on a range of topics. We recognize that this is a change for both librarians and their patrons,” Derezin wrote, adding that the company is committed to protecting members’ data.

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TeacherCast

JULY 15, 2015

This year, Michael Soskil, a Microsoft Innovative Educator shared with me some of the great new features of Skype and demonstrated how he is using video conferencing in his classroom. In 2015 the Varkey Gems Foundation named him as a top-50 finalist for the “Nobel Prize of Teaching”, the Global Teacher Prize. Learn More about Skype.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Microsoft will invest $75 million over the next three years in initiatives to increase access to computer science education for youth. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella made the announcement during his keynote speech at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual gathering in San Francisco for its customers and partners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 6, 2016

Horacio Ochoa has been head of Marketing at Bloomz @ BloomzApp since it’s launch in early 2015. He has years of experience in consumer and technology brands, including Pepsi and Microsoft. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to edit and post it.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. He adds that New Markets has funded “a handful” of companies in this situation. (He The Fulton, Md.-based

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The platform could pair them up for projects, and students would end the project with a presentation of their findings and work to companies in exchange for course credit. “It The new round of funding will help Riipen hire more sales and marketing staffers to grow the company’s presence in the U.S., office in 2020.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

“Today’s methods are quite cumbersome,” explains Frederik Wetterhall, the CEO and co-founder of Lexplore , a company that has devised a dyslexia screening tool that pairs eye tracking cameras with AI and algorithms. One study from 2015 reported being able to identify dyslexic readers using eye tracking with 80 percent accuracy.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. 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.

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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. Samepage now enables easy inclusion of content from cloud based services such as Google Apps, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Box and includes social page sharing via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 15, 2016

The three major operating systems—Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Mac OS and iOS, and Microsoft’s Windows—are battling for dominance in sales, says Futuresource Consulting , the London-based research company that completed the study released earlier this month. In the U.S., In the U.S., according to Futuresource.

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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. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Financial details in transactions between private companies rarely see the public light. In the suit, BrightBytes claimed Hapara broke “no-shop” and confidentiality clauses to solicit a better offer from another company. The suit has been settled, and both companies are now charting independent paths.

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TeacherCast

JULY 16, 2015

Thought the last 6 months, I have had the privilege of working closely with Microsoft Education to create some pretty awesome podcasts and promotional videos. One of my favorite moments at ISTE 2015 came while interviewing the OneNote team and I had the opportunity to meet the guys who actually CREATE Microsoft OneNote.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

Meanwhile, a major provider of free online educational resources for those learning to code announced new paid options that company leaders hope will make its business sustainable. The company claims 45 million people have registered to use its free materials. The company has raised $42.5 million since it started in 2011.)

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Five edtech companies emerged recently from Boston's LearnLaunch accelerator, tackling issues that include learning to code, hiring and collecting social emotional data. For instance, using its iNoted system , the company pings school users with questions such as "Today, how much did adults who work in your school treat students with respect?”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

She chose the high school because she believed it could give her access to the type of company she wants to work for in the future. In that time, giving to the San Antonio ISD Foundation has risen from $919,520 in 2015 to more than $11 million last year. Gifts to CAST schools since 2015 have totaled $10 million, including a $3.6

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 17, 2016

Microsoft is particularly popular with educators, who say it builds problem-solving and critical thinking skills. In 2014, Microsoft purchased Minecraft from Mojang, the Stockholm, Sweden-based company that developed the game for a reported $2.5 That infusion helped the company prototype the software and test it out on students.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. percent in all of 2015 and only 0.2 market from 6 percent of the total shipments of non-desktop PC devices in 2015 to 18 percent in 2017. million shipments from 5.7

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 15, 2016

In 2015, spending on hardware for educational purposes amounted to $15 billion, an increase of 7 percent from 2014, according to Futuresource Consulting, a U.K.-based In 2015, over 2.5 Thailand, India, Mexico and Venezuela have all deployed significant projects, the company found. billion in 2015.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

23-26): the companies who supply the tools, and the educators who use them; The Education Show (Jan. One teacher described The Education Show as “a ghost town for companies who can’t afford Bett.” (A companies have always had a strong presence, and this year was no exception with Microsoft and Google having the largest stands.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

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The Electric Educator

DECEMBER 2, 2015

On December 1 2015, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that it was filing a formal complaint against Google with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These companies have our information, and have the potential to misuse that information. This is what I expect from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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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. wi.us, among other sources." Unified gets a $3.26-million

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

She holds a Masters of Education in Curriculum Studies from Brock University and has presented throughout southern Ontario at various conferences including BIT (Bring it Together), OAME (Ontario Association for Mathematics Education) and Connect Conference in Niagara Falls, as well as internationally at ISTE 2015 and 2017. Blog: [link].

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Very quickly we were getting amazing outcomes for our students—almost 100 percent placement with companies, great salaries and the most compelling new path into the modern technology workforce. Around early 2015, stories also began to emerge of less-than-savory coding schools popping up around the country. The "Peak".

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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.

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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.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Microsoft, for example, offers Office 365 Education to students for free until they graduate, giving them a taste of the software for a number of years. ©2015 the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.). Still, like any other free education tool out there, Lewis said, schools should think before they adopt. at www.mercurynews.com.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 24, 2015

4) Digital Engagement + Partnering with Companies for Learning The problem: Teachers around the city were using the same resources but they weren't connecting with each nor were they connected to those providing the resources. This was a big need for companies and for our district. You can see more about the program in the video below.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

She said she’s worried not only about what her students might miss — those without online access won’t have a chance for teachers to give feedback on their work through Class Dojo and Microsoft Teams — but about their welfare in general. as refugees in 2015, is desperate for his youngest son to retain his English skills.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” “ Unique International College used a misleading and unlawful scheme to target vulnerable communities in 2014 and 2015, pushing individuals to enrol in courses in management, salon management and marketing.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.) “Why are there 72 slides about gaming, from a company invested in EA, Zynga, Mobcrush, and Magic Leap?” ” he asks. “Why is there a slide about Peloton? can make political donations.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Since 2015, the State Library has improved access for millions of Californians by helping connect more than half of the state’s 1,100 libraries to a high-speed Internet network that links universities, colleges, schools, and libraries around the world. They created the Edutopia brand to represent more ideal environments for learning.

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