Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The value of mergers and acquisitions in the education industry dropped significantly during the first three quarters of this year, compared to the same time period last year, a new analysis has found. billion in the first three quarters of 2015 to $4.3 See also: Education Industry Mergers Jumped Significantly in 2016.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

With a wealth of leadership experience in the education technology industry, Hedrick will lead the 40-plus-year science company as it continues to grow as a values-aligned Perpetual Purpose Trust dedicated to helping educators build a science literate society. Hedrick is the third CEO in Vernier Science Education’s 40-plus-year history.

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edWeb.net

JULY 6, 2015

The edWeb team was out and about at ISTE 2015 in Philadelphia last week. We connected with so many great educators and industry execs about what’s hot in education. and Linda Winter, the president of the Winter Group , hosted a “Purely Social” event for education industry friends and colleagues. What a blast!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. The first half of 2019 saw 123 deals of over $100 million.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

2015 PISA test scores for mathematics. Among the 35 industrialized nations that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the U.S. Carr emphasized that the 2015 PISA results showed that students across the board, from bottom to middle to top performers, were doing worse in math.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

By 2015, the company had raised $100 million in venture capital from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and John Doerr—the fourth biggest fundraising deal of that year. Money came flowing. But like Elizabeth Holmes in biotech, Max has almost no experience in the field of education.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That happened waaaay back in 2015 (which in online time seems like a few decades ago). 6 E-learning trends currently shaping up the industry. No, I’m not referring to Thanksgiving Day, nor to Black Friday, not even to Christmas; even though you can’t really ignore all the hustle and bustle that has already started.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 19, 2015

Frank Smith One of EdTech's 2015 Top 50 K–12 IT bloggers talks about the technologies that are creating sweeping changes in the industry.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2024

The question that institutions should consider, Santiago says, is how can they engage students who seek out a degree after starting off in an industry like construction. You can make a good amount of money now, but in five years, you're probably gonna reach the cap of what you can make,” she says, not to mention the physical toll over time.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2020

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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

EdClusters will continue to support models that disrupt the broken industrial model of school. Since 2015, the EdCluster network has included more than 50 organizations in 20 regions across the country. A focus on broader network-building efforts has shifted to more specialized programs and partnerships. Reimagining learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015. Go To Class | Next Session : 3rd May, 2015. Go To Class | Next Session : 4th May, 2015. Go To Class | ★★★★★ ( 3 ratings ) | Next Session : 4th May, 2015. Go To Class | Next Session : 4th May, 2015. Go To Class | Next Session : 4th May, 2015.

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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. It’s one of the biggest sales in the industry in this decade, surpassing LinkedIn’s $1.5 billion purchase of Lynda in 2015. billion in 2015. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Corbett graduated in 2022 from a unique program at the Hinds Career Center in Elwood that trains high schoolers for the little-known underground utility locating industry. State data shows the rate for Madison County dropped 16 percentage points from 2015-2020, mirroring the state’s drop of 12 points in that time period.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

“What I love doing is really helping to change an industry that has been doing one thing one way for a long time,” says Rohrlich. “At At Bazaarvoice, that was in the retail industry. Rorhlich has not worked in an education business before, and while he may be lacking in industry experience, he is not short on capital.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2015

note : This year the editors selected ten stories we believe either highlighted an important issue in 2015 and/or signaled the beginning of an escalating trend or issue for 2016. For years, he would have his students demonstrate their understanding of the great industrial philosophers by writing a comparative essay.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This latest deal—the ninth since Gulati joined in 2015—is part of PowerSchool’s ongoing drive to create a one-stop shop where data about a student or teacher can be collected and shared across the different tools they use in their day-to-day lives. But to be fair, the industry has never had a good all-in-one solution.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report Back in 2006, when Luciano was researching degrees that would lead to a good job in the fashion industry, she came across the website of the now-shuttered International Academy of Design and Technology, or IADT. I just thought I needed to try harder, keep searching.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, the National School Boards Association, and the Center for Digital Education. Shift Happens). In 2011 he was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 20, 2019

The annual event attracts over 16,000 attendees and industry representatives, including teachers, technology coordinators, administrators, library media specialists, teacher educators and policymakers. The Pennsylvania Convention Center holds a very dear spot in all our hearts, as that was the place of our very first ISTE, back in 2015.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. The industry has been proven wrong so many times. From 2011 to 2014, U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Yet in the education industry, these deals have been few and far in between, especially as many of these companies have opted to build their own edtech tools. In 2015, it acquired Launchpad Toys , a storytelling tool designed for children to create their own cartoons.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

The Farmington, Utah-based provider of online courses for technology professionals has been on the radars of industry analysts ever since its $135 million Series B fundraise in 2014. edtech industry since Instructure, another Utah-based company, went public in November 2015. That year, it also added former U.S.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2017

ISTE attendees and educational industry representatives include teachers, technology coordinators, library media specialists, teacher educators, district leaders and policymakers. We’ve been to Philadelphia in 2015, and to Denver last year. Just last year, in 2016, there have been around 19,000 people attending ISTE.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 27, 2015

Our newest goal for 2015 is from Larissa Albano from Italy ! When you accomplish any of the 2015 goals with a tech tool and post in our FB group or on Twitter, you will have a chance at winning a copy of Nik Peachey’s new interactive iBook, Digital Video. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals ! Current 2015 Goals.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 27, 2015

Our newest goal for 2015 is from Larissa Albano from Italy ! When you accomplish any of the 2015 goals with a tech tool and post in our FB group or on Twitter, you will have a chance at winning a copy of Nik Peachey’s new interactive iBook, Digital Video. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals ! Current 2015 Goals.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By 2015, technology had become an integral facet of learning , with devices ubiquitously present in students' hands. Today, as we navigate the post-pandemic era, the education industry is faced with numerous challenges, such as teacher shortages, declining enrollments and cybersecurity threats.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Launched in 2015, Bridge marked Instructure’s attempt to replicate its success with Canvas, a LMS for higher education, in the corporate learning space. But the two markets are very different, as industry analysts like Michael Feldstein have pointed out. Still, the business posted a $1.3 million loss.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Yet a 2015 report by Universities Canada found that less than half of Canadian universities have a strategy to adopt digital technologies. In essence, these opinions reflect what many people in the hospitality industry thought before AirBnB, or what taxi drivers thought before Uber. Skills gap.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2019

It is surprising, then, that many noted names in the book industry have been hit hard in recent years. According to Statista, only 20 percent of people say they buy their books in a physical store, and bookstore sales dropped 4 billion dollars from 2010 to 2015. There are still stores out there doing well in the bookselling industry.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

As a spectator sport and as an industry. That’s a notable jump from the 45% of all undergraduates in 2015 that planned to study STEM. Esports as an industry is an expanding area of study at colleges and universities. Esports are here to stay. In colleges and in high schools. And in no small way.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A 2015 Gallup poll of one million students in the U.S. This skill can be applied to any subject, with the most important part being that we are exposing students to a variety of critical-thinking methods and showing the application across subjects and job industries.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” Since 2015, students across Georgia have used Discovery to identify their aptitudes allowing them to be exposed to a variety of careers that they can explore and succeed in based on those aptitudes. “Georgia is focused on developing a strong workforce that aligns with the needs of the industry.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

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 Industry certification gives students a way to ­verify their skills and is a key part of the CTE program, Scholz says. “If We have to plan years ahead to stay up to date.

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