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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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4 Ways Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Earn Trust and Unlock New Opportunities With Education Customers

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Navigating this evolving landscape, edtech founders are confronted with many challenges in taking their products to market. By 2015, technology had become an integral facet of learning , with devices ubiquitously present in students' hands. Meanwhile, a trend that began in the 1990s was picking up steam — one-to-one computing.

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How edtech supports the success of the Nordic Education

Neo LMS

Our previous blog described the background to Finland’s successful education system and today we’ll unpack that a bit more, but also take a more detailed look at the role edtech plays in that success. How edtech supports everything: EDUDigi. The post How edtech supports the success of the Nordic Education appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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EdTech Success in LAUSD

eSchool News

Billion iPad Fiasco in 2015 ? It was even greater to hear it from industry veteran, Elliott Levine, Qualcomm’s Director of Worldwide Education, the company that commissioned the research from Project Tomorrow , and who always provides a great interview. There was a ransomware attack at the beginning of school in 2022.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. edtech companies in the first half of 2019.

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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

In January 2015, Mitch co-founded the nonprofit Games4Ed with Larry Cocco. Mitch served on the Board of the Ed-Tech Industry Network (ETIN) of the SIIA from 2012-2019, was cochair from 2015-2016, and was the chair in 2019. Edchat Interactive shares best practices among educators through live online interactive events.

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Entangled No More: Guild Education Buys Edtech Venture Studio

Edsurge

The combination says volumes about the need for speed and scope in the emerging “future of work” industry, where the rules are getting rewritten daily by the aftermath of a pandemic that is forcing just about every organization to rethink what it does when employees must either stay far apart or work from home.

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