Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the education technology industry, we see an abundance of press covering venture-backed startups and their funding rounds, acquisitions and other noteworthy milestones. 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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 edtech startups raised last year. edtech investor, including. Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. film and production studios.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. based software company that offers AI-assisted grading tools. It’s one of the biggest sales in the industry in this decade, surpassing LinkedIn’s $1.5 billion in 2015.

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

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

education technology, and early signs in 2019 suggest the industry is poised for another cash infusion. Already, one New York-based edtech company has raised $100 million. It launched in 2015 with $100 million , and re-upped in 2017 with a $185 million coffer. Expect more dollars to flow. The research arm of the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

edtech industry, that’s no big deal: In the first six months of 2018, 62 companies raised $739 million in venture capital. edtech company has hit the nine-figure mark in 2018: a $110 million round for Connexeo, a provider of administrative payment software for schools and community institutions. But for the U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Starting with a $100 million fund in 2015, Owl has since raised two subsequent funds— $185 million in 2017, and $315 million in 2019. Now the San Francisco-based edtech investment group is doubling down with two additional funds totalling $585 million. Since 2015, Owl has invested in 39 edtech companies. In total, U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! More industry certification programs and apprenticeships in all fields should also give students a leg up on either a career or higher education, he says. “We “Start small with a robotics competition or a club,” he says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Since the previous Demo Day in March, Tim Brady, a partner at Y Combinator who advises edtech startups, says he hasn’t noticed much in terms of changes in the education landscape. In this latest cohort of edtech companies, only one is aimed at being used in classrooms. Cofounder James Lin likens it to an “SAT for software engineers.”

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we asked educators from around the country to share their most transformative edtech moments. Michael Hernandez ( @cinehead ), Cinema and Journalism Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator, 2015 PBS Digital Innovator. You'll never be able to lure them from industry,” some told me.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Moving to the cloud can be good for both vendors and schools It is in the interests of the edtech industry for educators to feel confident about using technology. Edtech cannot afford to let the specter of cybercrime dampen enthusiasm. Wireless, once a frustration for many teachers, has largely improved.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The EdTech industry rose to the occasion and introduced education products to supplement in-person learning. The industry has matured over time and seen tremendous investments. Furthermore, the adoption of EdTech has presented an opportunity for companies to build products that cater to evolving needs of users.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As Pearson resumes its education technology investment activity, the publisher is also divesting other edtech assets at the same time. They will be led by CEO David King Lassman, who previously ran companies in the food, video and digital ad industries. universities at the time.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

Like the tech industry to which it belongs, education technology companies also struggle with a lack of diversity. Kimberly Bryant, founder of the Oakland-based nonprofit Black Girls Code , says the edtech industry bears a unique responsibility because of its intersection in education, youth opportunity and business. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

Founded in 2015, Hero K12 offers a behavior management system that allows teachers and administrators to keep a digital record of behavioral incidents—“the good with the bad,” reads the company’s website—in their efforts to build a more positive school climate. billion in 2015; Hellman & Friedman bought Renaissance Learning for $1.1

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). In 2015, Vista Equity Partners purchased PowerSchool, a student information system, and has since acquired another eight education companies. Yet that’s not all.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2018

Learners Guild , which offered a 10-month program for aspiring software engineers, has shut down. Founded in 2015, Learners Guild joined a flurry of so-called “coding bootcamps” that ran intensive courses, usually lasting several months, to teach students the skills needed to land a programming job. million.

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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. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Before, our only options were to send people to a training, sit in a course, and learn the material–whether from a university or a week-long certification,” says Shelly Holt, vice president of global learning for SAP, a leading enterprise-software company. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

And the group will continue to use the software developed by NMC to coordinate the research, which was among the assets purchased by Educause. The 2015 report , on the other hand, predicted that wearable technologies, including Google Glass, would find a place in higher-ed research settings.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry. Lesson learned #4: Don’t pursue every industry standard.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry. Lesson learned #4: Don’t pursue every industry standard.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. But participants estimated that just 4 percent of their institutions’ developmental and general education classes use adaptive software. A Word of Caution.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2017

The Teach Better Podcast Doug McKee, a senior lecturer ad Cornell University, and Edward O’Neill, a freelance instructional, designer have been sitting down to talk teaching since 2015. Each week she and her partner, Kin Lane, an advocate for API software standards, dissect the latest tech news, with an eye to education and open software.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

The product, which was initially a computer science MOOC, was developed as a skunkworks project within Amplify and spun out as an independent company in July 2015. Edhesive traces its origins to Amplify, the New York City-based digital education company that was once owned by News Corporation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2018

It offers a mix of career coaching support and interview preparation services for software engineering, data science, product management and design roles. At the end of 2015, he left to work on a mobile app for a popular board game-maker. Software engineering is a sought-after skill by many technology companies, and it pays well, too.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

billion drop in worldwide revenue from 2015 to 2021. The report defines self-paced courseware as being accessed on a desktop or laptop and spanning the K-12, higher education, corporate training, and privately marketed software (such as that produced by language-learning company Rosetta Stone) sectors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. billion, matching the previous high for the single-year funding total of this decade, set in 2015. edtech startups in 2017. edtech startups in 2017. Last year, U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Dougherty shares their stories—along with his own observations and commentaries on the industry—in thoughtful and at times bemused prose. Come meet Dale Dougherty, Tim O’Reilly and Betsy Corcoran at the SF Edtech Meetup on Thursday, Nov. A line from Publisher’s Weekly in 2000 observed: “The Internet Was Built with O’Reilly Books.”).

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Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

There’s perhaps no other edtech topic discussed more these days than student data privacy. Because keeping your students’ data safe is important to everyone here at Gaggle, we decided that our next webcast should focus on what school leaders and edtech companies can do to protect student data.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The critical role that relationships play in the opportunity equation was well-documented in political scientist Robert Putnam’s 2015 book, Our Kids. Daniel, who would be the first in his family to go to college, hoped to become a software engineer. He was matched with a volunteer mentor, Munim, through the nonprofit iMentor.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 24, 2015

SXSWedu offers unique opportunities for attendee engagement before, during, and after the conference that are unlike any other conference in the industry! We recommend checking out SXSWedu 2015 Featured Session, “ If I Knew then What I Know Now ” by Guy Kawaski, Canva Chief Evangelist. How will you get involved?

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). Tagged on: March 16, 2017 Shenzhen Capital Co-leads $29M Round In Chinese Robotics Firm Makeblock | China Money Network → "Recently, we are focusing on educational technology industry. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Those interactions look a lot different than just evaluating consumer or edtech trends in isolation. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry. What edtech and consumer trends will be significant for when a teen leaves high school? First is the evolving nature of education technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Common Sense Privacy Evaluations Common Sense, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization, maintains a database that evaluates edtech tools on whether they are safe for use in schools. When establishing each rating, Common Sense’s privacy team considers federal and state privacy regulations as well as industry best practices.

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