Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

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. Bootstrapped companies rarely have “unicorn” potential and most aren’t nearly as sexy as their venture-backed counterparts. In a way, it makes sense. Below is our story.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Next Wave 2017 was the latest in an annual, invitation-only meeting series run by Ithaka , the nonprofit group behind JSTOR, ArtStor, the PORTICO digital archiving and preservation service, and Ithaka S&R, which conducts research on higher ed and technology. We’re completely in charge of admissions. They’re in charge of the technology.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2019

Scheduling isn’t for the faint of heart, as anyone who’s tried to find a time and room for a team meeting well knows. That’s a tall order for any organization—and especially for a small company like Coursedog , which claims its scheduling software can help colleges and universities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Furthermore, he was the parody writer and voice of Burleson ISD's school year launch videos from 2016 to 2019. And so we have standing weekly meetings where we look at campus academic goals and we look at the principal's weekly commitments towards accomplishing that goal and have a collaborative system of accountability there.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In November 2016, over 250 school district leaders, researchers, thought leaders, and other partners came to Baltimore, Maryland to learn from one of the nation’s most forward-thinking school districts, Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS). ” During a keynote address at the meeting, Dr. Freeman A. It’s about success.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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ASIDE

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Source: NYSCATE The theme for the 2016 annual conference of the New York State Association For Computers And Technologies In Education ( NYSCATE ) was "Unleash The Superhero In You." Every teacher we met was excited to try a new web app or a backchannel to decentralize daily instruction. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

At the end of June, eSpark joined the thousands of district and edtech leaders headed to Denver, CO to meet innovative educators and discuss the current state of technology in schools. Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping it simple.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

By Deloitte’s most recent count , 37 percent of organizations have deployed AI solutions (up 270 percent from 2016) and a majority predict it will “substantially transform” their companies by 2023. Prior to the pandemic, we had a chance to meet with Art and talk to him about the future of work,” Matsuda says.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Recipient of the 2016 ISTE Emerging Leader Award, recognized as a PBS Digital innovator for her initiatives in enhancing student learning with technology, Fox has also served as President of the Young Educator Network for ISTE, and received the President's Volunteer Award in 2018. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Caffeinated founders paced the lobby in colorful T-shirts splattered with their company logos, polishing their pitches for their on-stage presentation and meetings with potential investors. What he has yet to find—but which he says Y Combinator would be willing to invest in—are companies that can help support and run new school models.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

I have been with the company since November 2016. There are days when I meet new students, and there are days when I teach my regular students, and there is always something new to learn about each student. The beauty of teaching online is meeting new people and learning about their culture. Click to tweet.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Lesson plans can be tailored to meet the learning needs of individual students. took at least one online course. Phishing scams involve sending emails to a large group of people, such as a university’s student body, that appear to be from a reputable company or individual.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Some new online courses like The Active Citizen in the Digital Age from Stanford University are already moving us in this direction, helping to foster informed civic participation following the 2016 election. Adapting an Existing Online Course for Synchronous Delivery.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

What began with faculty interest in Stephenson’s Canadian company, Riipen, which connects students with class projects offered by actual businesses, led to conversations with a university accelerator that invests in edtech startups and connects them with faculty to launch pilot programs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

That issue led to a class-action lawsuit and settlement involving General Assembly and two former instructors, who alleged that the New York City-based education company misclassified them as independent contractors. But it resurfaces disputes that have become increasingly commonplace among companies that rely on contract labor.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Every now and then, it's been hard to do a call while the kids are screaming or something like that, but between meetings, to see them or have lunch with them or go on a walk with them, that part has been actually quite nice.” EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic? They were real education.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

At the end of June, eSpark joined the thousands of district and edtech leaders headed to Denver, CO to meet innovative educators and discuss the current state of technology in schools. Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping in simple.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Darrell Silver is a unlikely critic of coding bootcamps, the 9- to 12-week intensive courses in computer science and programming skills. To date, the New York-based company has raised nearly $16 million. The events range from a lunchtime meeting on web development to info sessions on how to become a data scientist.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Even before then, the company had already taken a big hit. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

Advocates praise their accessible low-prices and ability to meet students on digital devices. But skeptics hold that the quality of digital course materials don’t stand up to that of the Pearson’s and McGraw Hill’s of the world. On its own, the OER company partners with nearly 150 campuses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Tech jobs pay well, and companies that train people for them have been enjoying a payday. Lambda School raised $74 million in a Series C round led by Gigafund, a venture firm that’s cut big checks for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and The Boring Company. Earlier this month, coding bootcamp provider Springboard snagged $31 million from investors.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

By: Robyn Shulman, 2016. Fast Forward to 2016. Government can garnish wages and withhold tax refunds to meet student loan debt requirements. *If Many companies now offer tuition assistance to full and part time students. LinkedIn originally published this article as part of the LinkedIn’s Avoid Student Debt Series.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

With the added funds, Lambda School also announced it will be adding courses in cybersecurity and medicine. One route the company is exploring is to “purchase a [nursing] school and gut it and strip it out,” Allred shares. After that, students pay the company 17 percent of their income for two years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Then, in 2016, the U.S. Since 2016, Ashland has begun offering associate and bachelor degrees to its Pell recipients, and enrollment numbers have grown significantly, Marshall says. Several have started their own companies. according to Todd Marshall, the university’s vice president for online and adult studies.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Koller, who left Coursera in 2016, is currently CEO of Insitro, a drug-development startup that raised $143 million in May.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Stride Inc.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course. In 2016, Debra was Johnston’s District Teacher of the Year, and was a finalist for state Teacher of the Year for Rhode Island.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A 2016 survey of such programs found that only about 4 percent of respondents offered field experiences such as student teaching in K-12 online settings. Publicly available research also comes out of Michigan Virtual, a two-decade-old nonprofit that provides professional development for teachers and online courses for students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As numerous students joined the platform, and thousands of teachers came on board to meet this demand, the costs to facilitate the service were subsequently driven down to the point where 51Talk had an efficient and profitable business model. What were two top motivating factors behind starting the company?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

In November 2016, the school board approved a preference in the lottery for students who quality for free and reduced lunch, she added. At the event, Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz extolled “the public-private community partnership” between the company and the school as a way to “bring the best resources to our students.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. These new rules sound like those of yesteryear’s—and that’s a problem.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. Ara Austin And so starting around 2016, academic leaders in the university’s School of Molecular Sciences decided to experiment with offering rigorous biochemistry programs to remote students — complete with hands-on lab experiences. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. We talk about the days long gone when companies trained employees from the ground up and now we’re talking about companies training employees again.

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