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.

Education 218

Education Company E-rate Industry 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. Updates and Upgrades: Apple Classroom officially hit the app store in March 2016. Streamlines feedback on student work.

Microsoft 142

Microsoft Google Classroom Schoology 142

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Even traditional students are not immune to online privacy breaches — everything from identity verification documents to coursework and transcripts may be stored online, in the cloud or elsewhere. One of the world’s most notorious phishing scams seen in a campus environment occurred in 2016.

Learning 254

Learning Student Data Privacy Data Software 254

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.

EdTech 87

EdTech Company Industry Libraries 87

eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Recognizing that public education can be an important site of social and political change, ISTE 2016 presenters and attendees spent much of the week discussing how to use technology to help students that are often underserved by traditional methods of instruction catch up with their peers. Keeping in simple.

EdTech 40

EdTech Digital Divide Education Future Ready 40

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

have been well-documented. And now the company is expecting another wave of growth with the help of a $15 million Series B fundraise led by Owl Ventures and Google Ventures. Menlo Park City was one of the earliest districts to partner with Swing in 2016. Teacher shortages in the U.S.

Education 94

Education Company System Technology 94

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

For a few days last August, the company topped the app charts as well. The company was founded in 2011 with a straightforward value proposition: to provide teachers with a safe and secure way to send homework or study reminders to students and their parents on mobile devices without using personal phone numbers.

Facebook 111

Facebook Company Education Smartphone 111

ProfHacker

DECEMBER 12, 2016

2016 has been a difficult year, and in the spirit of moving forward you’ll notice lots of suggestions centered around giving not only to those close to us but to larger causes and projects that need support. But some lesser-known companies make nice speakers that sound good and are quite affordable. Bose, Beats) as well as a speaker.

Tablets 40

Tablets iPad Mobility Company 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

Company 89

Company Video Broadband Report 89

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.,

E-rate 121

E-rate Pearson Company Report 121

Fractus Learning

APRIL 10, 2021

PerfectIt is a proofreading solution Daniel Heuman launched in 2009 to help writers and professionals edit academic papers, business reports, and legal documents. PerfectIt is designed to save time for professionals who spend hours checking and double-checking a document for typos and mistakes. Error Location In Documents.

Software 64

Software Microsoft Company Report 64

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Two years ago, the “college-alternative” company launched to glowing coverage on TV shows, raised $11.5 Fast Company, which broke the story , reported that the acquisition was an all-stock deal. million, starting with a $3 million seed round in 2016, and followed by a $8.5 How did it start and end so quickly?

Chegg 79

Chegg Company Industry Data 79

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Word Processing: Develop students’ proficiency using word processing programs and tools for online document creation, design, editing, collaboration and problem-solving. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S. school districts and serves more than 4 million students each year.

Schoology 69

Schoology Digital Citizenship Learning Libraries 69

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Founded in 2016, Motivating Systems is the parent company for PBIS Rewards, Workplace Rewards and TRiO Perks—helping organizations motivate people to do their best. We know that when schools and districts prioritize PBIS Rewards, office referrals and suspensions drastically decrease.

Software 86

Software System Data Report 86

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

Comparison 97

Comparison Data Secondary Report 97

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

So you can actually video and document what it is that you are seeing through the augmented reality. Day 2 was they had to document it. In 2016, she was selected to be a Dremel 3D Printing Ideabuilder Ambassador. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. That was Part 1. That was Day 1. Vicki: Yeah!

iPad 189

iPad iPhone System Video 189

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. As of spring 2016, the company has supported 100 districts nationally, representing 300 schools and 300K students. Stay tuned! He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

Education Elements 60

Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. That falling market share is well documented.

Pearson 101

Pearson Case Study Company Tablets 101

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. The company claims on its website that it’s near that goal, with more than 7.2 Everything else is like trading penny stocks.”

Sony 99

Sony Learning Company lynda.com 99

eSchool News

JULY 29, 2020

Klassroom, the Paris-based company that reinvents parent-teacher communication in pre-kindergarten and all elementary school grades, just raised a $3 million seed round led by Bpifrance and several angel investors including Jerome Lecat, CEO at Scality, and Andy Myers, President at Waterford.org and former executive at Renaissance Learning.

Elementary 52

Elementary Video Company Training 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

It’s that time of the year—the time when companies start making back-to-school updates and announcements. Google Classroom: Email Summaries and Annotations Google Classroom , the company’s learning management system, is now getting a new feature. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

Google 60

Google Classroom STEM Mobility 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

iPad 78

iPad Broadband Software Company 78

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. If 2016 was the year of “unbundling” college, my hope is the “the place we will go” in 2017 will be the unbundling of higher-ed tech.

EdTech 79

EdTech LMS Data System 79

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

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. billion in 2016. billion in 2021 from $2.7

Report 70

Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

The task force went with a widely-used early-alert provider, called Starfish, whose parent company Hobson’s claims is used at nearly 400 institutions. One measure was clear though: fall-to-fall retention rates for first-time college students again weren't improving, going from 57 percent in 2013 to 56 percent in 2016.

System 82

System Software Outcomes Report 82

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Also, teachers may need extra support when it comes to things like keeping track of and submitting documentation. She also created a system through Google Classroom for them to easily submit materials and documentation electronically. “Each campus is unique, so let them do what works for them,” she said.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Symantec E-rate Guidelines 40

edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2019

The drawbacks of social media are well-documented—like anonymous trolls posting negative comments just to spark controversy. For the 2016–2017 school year, he received an Excellence in Teaching award and was one of three finalists for Teacher of the Year in Oakland Unified School District.

Social Media 48

Social Media Symantec Digital Citizenship Professional Learning 48

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

They send me a notification (tag me in a comment or whatever within that document or slide or whatever it may be), and I can go approve that they’ve done the task or not. Mrs. Yonker teaches in South Central Kentucky, and is a 2016 KY Teacher of the year nominee. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

Google 175

Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 175

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

While Academia.edu is free to join, the site introduced a premium feature in December 2016 that allows users to track details about who’s looking at their research papers (similar to LinkedIn Premium’s ability to show who’s viewed your profile). Users can create a profile, upload work, and track views and citations.

Elsevier 94

Elsevier Social Media Facebook Groups 94

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. In 2015 and 2016, the city spent $6 million to roll out a new math curriculum featuring games, building blocks, art projects and songs.

Report 128

Report Training Elementary Strategy 128

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. 1 priority for 2016? Switches, routers, panels and projectors. Cornhole, crane games, magic shows and light-up swords.

Pearson 60

Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. In 2016, U.S. Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas J. Fordham Institute. Estimates of just how sluggish vary.

Elementary 144

Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 144

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2016

And, there are some key changes between MLA 7 and MLA 8 in this fresh look at documenting sources that you will need to note! In works-cited lists (but not in-text documentation) page numbers are now preceded by p. Publishers’ names are now given in full, with businessy words like Company ( Co. In previous versions, et al.

Handbook 40

Handbook Guidelines Video Company 40

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Business writers writing case studies, reports, presentations, and other documents. A copywriter writing brochures, sales sheets, and website landing pages for B2B and B2C companies to increase sales. Grammarly for Microsoft Office offers real-time grammar detection when creating Microsoft Word documents or writing an Outlook email.

Software 59

Software Microsoft Comparison Report 59

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The new curriculum has lessons for each grade level and also includes new resources, slides, and flexible documents that can be added to Google Drive or downloaded in multiple formats. The company has evolved to become one of the world’s largest software companies with more than 18,500 employees in more than 50 countries.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Symantec Company Smartphone 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Some scholars have even pushed for an exodus from sites like Academia.edu, pointing out that tech companies have access to academics’ work, and prioritize profit. According to ScholarlyHub’s website, anyone is able to view or download content, but only paying users will be able to post and share.

Industry 68

Industry Company Twitter Trends 68

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Yet Colorado appears to be the only state whose law, adopted in 2016, requires that districts train all teachers and school administrators in the basics of privacy and information security. (A A few states require such training for people who accesses specific, statewide student databases.).

Training 40

Training Data Student Data Privacy Policies 40