ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 14, 2019

Adobe Flash software after 2020. ” McAfee recently reported that “Flash continues to offer attackers an exploitable collection of flaws for the immediate future.” Not every school can afford the newest and cutting-edge hardware and software for their classrooms. This means: No bugs being fixed.

Adobe 150

Adobe Strategy Software EdTech 150

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

Chegg 158

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 158

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Hobsons , which offers a suite of software for college and career planning, admissions and enrollment, and student success and advising, will be broken up and sold in a pair of transactions totaling approximately $410 million. Naviance and Starfish were brought into the fold via acquisitions in 2007 and 2015, respectively.

Schoology 154

Schoology Company Strategy System 154

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels. Nicolas Garcia, a senior at Adolfo Camarillo High School, analyzes data that he gathered on his cellphone use during the school day.

Data 139

Data STEM Course Report 139

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Epson and Smart Technologies are now bundling Smart collaborative learning software with Epson BrightLink interactive projectors. The Smart Notebook Advantage subscription lets customers upgrade to new versions of Notebook software in that first year, as well as access technical support and unlock premium features within Notebook.

Epson 40

Epson Software Collaborative Learning Outcomes 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Several largely overlooked reports, including from the Department of Defense, raise alarms about how Americans’ disdain for math is a threat to national security. It reports that there are now eight times as many college graduates in these disciplines in China and four times as many engineers in Russia than in the United States.

STEM 140

STEM Report Study Industry 140

Doug Levin

APRIL 30, 2016

Employed measures of academic achievement that were standardized assessments or norm-referenced district- or school-wide tests; Reported the duration of the study; and, Otherwise provided sufficient statistical data to calculate effect sizes.

Laptops 279

Laptops Study Analysis Learning 279

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

Throughout the years of coverage, journalists, bloggers and commentators alike have each taken to their respective channels and platforms to identify their own Theranos stories in different sectors, while investors reported that likely half of other startups prove eerily similar to the rise-and-fall storyline. Money came flowing.

Knewton 218

Knewton Education Kaplan Company 218

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 17, 2016

An ed-tech startup developing software to help students learn computer coding principles through Minecraft has been awarded a $750,000 grant through the National Science Foundation. In 2014, Microsoft purchased Minecraft from Mojang, the Stockholm, Sweden-based company that developed the game for a reported $2.5

Software 40

Software Microsoft Company STEM 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Teachers’ options include checking for plagiarism manually or using time-saving software designed for this very purpose. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: Adapting to new software is always time-consuming.

Software 144

Software Assessment Analysis Tools 144

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

If online weren’t in the picture, on-campus enrollments, as reported in the most recent U.S. In Babson’s new report, distance education enrollments increased for the fourteenth straight year, growing more rapidly than they have for the past several years. percent from 2015 to 2016 to reach 6.4 Distance ed is saving higher ed.”

Survey 216

Survey Comparison Outcomes LMS 216

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) released a report in 2017 , demarcating the specifics of the “drop out” or (more polite phrase) completion rate problem among colleges. The report covered the six-year completion rates of the cohort of students (which the study refers to as the 2011 cohort) who began college in 2011.

Course 321

Course Case Study Study Trends 321

Tom Murray

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Take a moment to consider the digital disruption that has already occurred in the following industries (Goodwin, 2015). Kickstarter, Zopa, SocietyOne) The largest software vendors don’t write the apps. No longer do nature’s borders significantly reduce the acceleration of change. It always has been, and it always will be. Projections.

Industry 270

Industry Facebook Company Social Media 270

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. Last year, Great Hill also put in $110 million in Connexeo , a provider of school administration and payment software. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

EdTech 139

EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 139

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

A Hechinger Report review found dozens of companies promoting their products’ effectiveness on their websites, in email pitches and in vendor brochures with little or shoddy evidence to support their claims. Others sell some of the most widely used education software in schools today. “In

Company 145

Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

Founded in 2015, MEL Science has raised a total of $12 million to date. According to a report from Common Sense Media, an education nonprofit, headset prices have dropped significantly over the years. The Common Sense report found that while one in five U.S. TMT Investments led the round.

STEM 143

STEM Company Software Report 143

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover. Vodicka had served as Superintendent of Vista Unified School District in California, and won the state’s top superintendent award in 2015. Now, AltSchool will now be steered by former education leaders.

Software 105

Software Company Exercises Personalized Learning 105

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

Edmodo brings a vibrant social community to the company, which is amassing education assets that already include both hardware and software. Now the most powerful players are technology companies that offer devices and software. In 2015, NetDragon paid approximately $130 million to acquire U.K.-based

Edmodo 144

Edmodo Pearson Company Facebook 144

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. School Report. ©2015 the Los Angeles Times.

Pearson 40

Pearson Software Lenovo iPad 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. Instructure is currently a public company, and its leaders say a move to private ownership will allow it to invest more in its software and potentially make more acquisitions. “We

LMS 145

LMS Company Software Blackboard 145

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

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. edtech company since Instructure went public in 2015), “exit activities have been incredibly robust,” she says. (The full-year tally for 2017 reached $1.2

EdTech 65

EdTech Report Company Industry 65

eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2015

First preview of K-12 Horizon Report notes big ed tech shifts. 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 (look for No.

Trends 40

Trends BYOD Analysis Report 40

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 5, 2021

The Utah STEM Action Center has released its 2020 annual report , which includes the results of their comprehensive statewide program evaluation. Why is the report significant? What does the report say about K-12 math software? A new bar has been set for state-grants-funded digital math programs evaluation.

Program Evaluation 52

Program Evaluation STEM Analysis Software 52

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Founded in 2004, Pluralsight currently offers more than 6,000 online courses on a variety of technical, business and design skills—from architecture to manufacturing, game development and software engineering. With more than 800 employees, Pluralsight plans to add as many as 2,400 more over the next decade, reports Deseret News.

EdTech 113

EdTech Industry Company Software 113

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Almost half of all Ontario secondary school teachers report using YouTube or video elements in their classrooms. Yet a 2015 report by Universities Canada found that less than half of Canadian universities have a strategy to adopt digital technologies. but less likely to engage the software to create lessons.

Secondary 300

Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

Doug Levin

AUGUST 30, 2016

Last year at this time, I had some words about the treatment of technology in the 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform. And, to be clear, the poll findings should not be taken to generalize to any student population beyond high school (like to elementary or middle school students).

Blended Learning 240

Blended Learning Learning Analysis Strategy 240

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

That's apparently the prevailing wisdom of Cornerstone OnDemand , a publicly traded provider of employee management and professional development software, which hopes to beat back recent competition by acquiring former competitor Saba. In 2015, it was acquired by Vector Capital for about $300 million, taking the company private.

Company 81

Company Software Analysis Libraries 81

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

According to a report from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, during the 2015-16 school year, Black students made up 17 percent of all students in schools that offered Algebra I in eighth grade, but only 11 percent of the students enrolled in that class. However, access to algebra courses has been uneven.

Study 159

Study Report Course Accessibility 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But that’s how much Dave Dahl sold his family company , Dave’s Killer Bread, for in 2015. The software is used at one juvenile facility, though the company is in discussion with several community colleges, county and state departments of corrections, according to Freedman. And stay out.” He can’t claim credit for much—yet.

Education 155

Education Company Tablets Software 155

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

Technology can be pen and paper, or adaptive software, or whatever is most helpful for the learning task at hand. In 2015, a major report from the research nonprofit RAND found that personalized learning works, confirming many of our hopes. Not the other way around. I talked about mastery learning a lot back then.

Khan Academy 154

Khan Academy Learning Differentiated Instruction Broadband 154

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 99

Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 14, 2022

As digital transformation gains ground there is great demand for software testing. Therefore, it is very important that the software functions are flawless and function seamlessly. The same too holds true for software updates. Automation testing is therefore essential to ensure that the software does what it is expected to do.

eBook 52

eBook Technology Software Mobility 52

eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

Still, in the 2014-2015 school year, over 5 million students participated in PARCC testing, and this rigorous testing of college and career readiness may allow schools to provide targeted support and intervention to students who struggle to grasp Common Core standards. Testing Depth of Knowledge.

Assessment 94

Assessment Common Core Blended Learning Analysis 94

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 Education Services announced today that it is expanding its services to help Monash University in Melbourne, Australia launch a bootcamp-style tech training program. Why Melbourne?

Training 119

Training Broadband Company Education 119

Vizor

OCTOBER 21, 2017

According to Dian Schaffhauser’s Report: Education Tech Spending on the Rise , the budget for hardware in 2015 surpassed the teacher training budget. So, education establishments spend important time and resources planning new curriculum, implementing plans, and getting new hardware and software. Easily Redistributes Software.

Laptops 69

Laptops Software Knowledge Base Education 69

Bryan Alexander

JUNE 11, 2015

It’s also a snapshot of where 3d printing stands in mid-2015. Several institutions reported considering purchasing their first or second machine, while others described full-campus deployment under way (U Mass Amherst spoke of 48 devices). Printing management software: PrintToPeer and Octoprint.

Report 40

Report Education Software Libraries 40

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: The First-Year Implementation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in Five States (American Institutes for Research, 2000).

Policies 150

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150