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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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

No More Predictions One of the assumptions behind the Gates’ prediction is that the growth of instructional software will replace textbooks. When I told you about this type of software in previous letters, it was mostly speculative,” Bill Gates wrote in his annual letter this year. K-12 software will reach around $4.5

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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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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

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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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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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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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. Closing thoughts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

The project is called FOLIO , and it’s a nationwide effort to build open-source, “next-generation” software to handle the back-end work of organizing library collections, like helping patrons check out books and managing digital holdings. It is healthy for the library-tech industry to have another competitor in this space,” he adds.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But that’s how much Dave Dahl sold his family company , Dave’s Killer Bread, for in 2015. Some programs offer certifications recognized industry associations like NCCER (for construction) and OSHA, a standard workplace safety program. Nucleos plans to charge correctional facilities directly for the use of its software.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Tentative agreement addresses issues over software, curriculum use. million settlement over curriculum from education software giant Pearson that the school system said its teachers barely used. Consultants concluded that few teachers even used the Pearson software. ©2015 the Los Angeles Times. School Report.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

From bigwig financiers to bankers, along with heads of private and publicly-traded education technology companies, the gathering attracted around 900 attendees last week to share the opportunities and challenges in the industry this year. The previous year, 2015, set a record for education technology investments with over $3.1

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

They will be led by CEO David King Lassman, who previously ran companies in the food, video and digital ad industries. But this latest gig (excuse the pun) also marks his return to the education industry. Back in the ’90s, he started a K-12 assessment software company, Doublestruck, which he sold in 1999.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP There are deep shortages of workers in information technology fields, according to the labor market analytics firm Lightcast, which says that there were more than 4 million job postings over the last year in the United States for software developers, database administrators and computer user support specialists.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

Reading between the lines, Paul Freedman, CEO of Entangled Group, believes it’s a deal that the higher-education industry should watch closely. Salesforce.org was created in 2008, and was converted to a public benefit corporation (also known as a B-Corp) in 2015. In 2018, Salesforce.org generated $250 million in revenue.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

million job openings in December 2018 and payroll growth at its highest since 2015. Yet, all of this good news nearly overshadows the reality that there is a finite pool of skilled workers for many of the fastest-growing roles, including software development engineers, business analysts, genetic counselors, and nurse practitioners.

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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. “We billion in 2015; Hellman & Friedman bought Renaissance Learning for $1.1

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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. Since 2015, Owl has invested in 39 edtech companies. Parents—especially those in industries hit by the pandemic—may also be a target market for another reason.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

Started in 2015, the New York City-based startup works with more than 40 institutions to set up programs primarily in coding, web development and UX/UI. Trilogy has situated itself somewhat adjacent to the coding bootcamp industry by working within colleges and universities themselves.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

With more than 4 billion users now connected to the internet, 50% of the global population (Forbes, December 2018), it is not surprising that the education sector has embraced devices and software to interact, engage, and enhance the learning environment for students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Our school recognizes that tangible, hands-on learning experiences featuring self-discovery and critical thinking is the key to effective instruction A New Kind of Business Plan In the spring of 2015, my school looked into a new type of class to address a term that every school features prominently on their website: “21st-century education.”

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MindShift

AUGUST 18, 2015

Richardson is entrepreneur and senior software engineer at Westfield Labs. A love for someday maybe thinking about pursuing a career with this burgeoning industry.” Outside of management, software developers and hardware engineers are often among the highest-paid jobs in the industry. Copyright 2015 NPR.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2019

In 2015, the U.S. publishing industry put out 339,000 new books. based organization, which was founded in 1989 and operates according to the slogan, “software for social good.” But even at that laudable clip, Benetech is falling behind. The number of self-published works is now more than double that figure.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

education technology, and early signs in 2019 suggest the industry is poised for another cash infusion. It launched in 2015 with $100 million , and re-upped in 2017 with a $185 million coffer. In the higher-ed space, Owl’s portfolio includes Kuali, a suite of administrative software and online program manger, Noodle Partners.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Quizizz-2015. Even as industry has built fresh tools for students, we too frequently left educators on their own, scrambling to keep up. These days, millions of students in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

On paper, Weld North Education is made up of three companies: Edgenuity, a provider of online K-12 courses; Generation Ready, which offers K-12 professional development services; and Imagine Learning, which offers math and literacy software for elementary-grade students. Yet that’s not all.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. SIIA, the organization that represents the software industry launched the Student Privacy Pledge , giving school partners that collect data a platform to show their commitment to maintain student privacy.

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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. This time, we validate ideas with our end users before developing the software. May 2015 I read Mark Cuban’s “ How to Win at the Sport of Business.”

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. ” Eian Harm.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Way back in 2015, I shared a post about Nepris: Matchmaker for STEAM Learning. It connects educators and learners with what is a significant global database network of industry professionals and experts. The platform integrates with the popular Zoom software for its ease of use, recording functionality and its HD video features.

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edWeb.net

JULY 31, 2017

The winner announcement was made by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, during the annual Education Impact Symposium in San Francisco. ” edWeb has won a CODiE three years in a row. edWeb.net is free.

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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. In an ideal situation, you might assume that users will be good at navigating software products based on your experience and expertise.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The insurance industry, like most industries , is disproportionately white and male at the management level. “As The medical assistant program was overwhelming — she was working full time and raising a family — but she graduated in 2015, at a cost of $10,000. Her starting wage — $16 an hour — hardly justified that investment.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Since 2015, more than 10,000 people, mostly working adults, have graduated from programs created by Trilogy and offered in partnership with universities such as Georgia Tech, Northwestern, Rutgers and the University of Pennsylvania. Trilogy’s instructors are industry experts, not veteran educators.

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