Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each of the satellites will offer more than one terabyte per second of total network output, a thousand times the capacity of the company's first generation satellites, which the company says will allow educators and students across the country to connect “significantly” better.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Top ten films of 2016. And throughout the 2016 year alone, we’ve showcased over 300 edtech tools in our S’Cool Tools section. Certain tools get more clicks than others, and as we close this year, we felt it pertinent to bring you the most popular S’Cool Tools of 2016. Top ten books on the New York Times bestseller list.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Today the network unveiled the top 10 skills employers need in 2016. 1 in 2016—several billion data points, according to the company. The new list reads like a career page for any tech company—“web architecture and development framework” and “network and information security” make an appearance. 1 and Sept.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Part Two: The Funding Figuring out how to fund the development of education technology continued to be complex: Investors in US edtech startups hit a high-water mark in 2015 with US companies raising $1.45 In 2016, that edtech figure looks like it will be closer to $1.03B.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

Artificial intelligence has become a ubiquitous buzzword for tech companies these days, but even though all kinds of founders and CEOs say their product is infused with AI, the meaning of the term varies from advanced machine learning to a smart spreadsheet. At the same time, there’s growing public awareness around the risks of AI.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

At elite universities, that figure was much higher — almost 90 percent at the University of Pennsylvania, for example, according to the school’s career services office. The Washington Center, for example, last year began offering fully funded, short-term career-readiness programs. The company, whose biggest market is now the U.S.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. More companies are assuming the costs and risks of preparing people for entry-level technology roles by offering apprenticeships.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2021

It’s one of the first, putting the institution in the company of Drexel University and the Savannah College of Art and Design. The seed for the degree program was planted in 2016, when Husson received an anonymous $1 million donation to support the study and instruction of virtual reality. That’s a real, big problem,” Williams says. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

The next logical question is, are those entrepreneurs’ companies any better, in terms of diversity? A few edtech companies are now using resources to document—and potentially address—disparities in their ranks. Edtech companies aren’t the only ones creating inclusion surveys. Source: Clever Blog The results?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

This dwarfs the nascent markets for unaccredited microcredentials (perhaps $250 million) or the revenue generated by coding bootcamps ($200 million in 2016, according to Course Report). In this way, as a recent example, the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2019

Today, Brad Weinstein and Nathan Maynard, authors of Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice help us understand how restorative justice should work and some examples that will help us understand the successful implementation. Brad holds a B.A.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 7, 2017

Some examples: family, likes, holidays, books, food, sports, school, friends, reading, games, hopes for the future, and seasons. ” If interested in teaching online 51Talk is a great company to work for! In June 2016, it became a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange (COE). Here is the link: [link].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And now, the company that helps groups of colleges—a “consortium” in Acadeum parlance—share online courses has raised a new round of funding to support its marketing efforts and woo more schools to its digital course-sharing consortia. Pierce changed the name because people mistook his company for an actual consortium (which it is not).

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

Since January 2016, there have been 355 cybersecurity-related incidents against K–12 schools , including ransomware attacks, according to the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. . To help districts, some companies offer Disaster Recovery as a Service as part of their platforms. by Karen Scarfone.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

And even now, some of the company's other services appear to still be down, according to updates from the company. There’s been a five-fold increase in incidents since 2016, with 1,180 reported incidents connected to U.S. And companies have not always been candid when they’ve experienced a significant attack.

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Tom Murray

MAY 23, 2018

Last year, I wrote the post, “ Can Companies Like Facebook Help Close the Access Gap? In March 0f 2016, the FCC adopted a comprehensive reform and modernization of the Lifeline program. The 2016 modernization updated the 1985 program which has provided a discount on phone service for qualifying low-income Americans.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 2, 2023

Blatantly, demonstrably untrue: the GPT3 dataset is a little over 600GB, primarily Wikipedia, Books corpuses, WebText and 2016-2019 CommonCrawl. People are even suing companies over companies over their uses of copyrighted work as training data. The Macbook Air I am typing this on has more free disk space than that.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2019

Scribner, 2016, p. Let’s look at an example to take this conversation further. So, for example, if they go into a math class and they struggle with math, a person with a fixed mindset would say something like “I am not good at math” and never improve. Duckworth, Angela. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2016

Cricket Media , a next-generation global learning company, announced the launch of its 3rd Annual Global Folklorist Challenge in partnership with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The challenge deadline is November 30, 2016, with winners chosen by a panel of Smithsonian and ePals judges.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 13, 2018

In fact, Gartner recently estimated that, on average, 40 percent of IT spending at companies is on shadow IT. It’s likely that in K–12 school districts, where IT is typically more physically and logically distributed than in the average company, shadow IT may be even more widespread. Educate Users on Shadow IT Risks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

In 2016, for example, just 3.6 Since 2016, they said, government spending on early childhood programs has increased 17 percent and private capital has risen 12 percent. Learn Capital has a portfolio of 100 companies, about 10 of which are in early childhood, Sharpley said. There’s been a massive campaign.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Often, she says, a life event usually interrupts their studies—starting a family or a parent becomes ill, for example—and the CEO of ReUp Education says students shouldn’t suffer for it. “It The company is paid each semester the students attend. Freedman remains an adviser and board chairman of the company.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Historically that involves bringing some form physical identification, but increasingly companies and institutions are turning to face recognition, fingerprinting and voice biometrics. The Boston-based company passed its own test of sorts today: securing a $90 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Emily is an example of a teacher constantly sharing success stories. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

But if Kantar is fighting an uphill battle for Imbellus , the simulation-based assessment company she founded in 2016 and now manages, then a handful of venture capital firms are ready to fight it with her. million in a Series A financing round led by Owl Ventures, bringing the company’s funding to-date to $23.5

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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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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

By: Robyn Shulman, 2016. Fast Forward to 2016. For example, taking a trip to the grocery store, using coupons and saying ‘no’ to a child’s wants rather than needs are beginning ways to exemplify financial responsibility. Many companies now offer tuition assistance to full and part time students.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

When deciding whether a company is viable to be bought, CareMonkey president Peter Bencivenga says the magic number is 90 percent. That number refers to customer retention rate, and Bencivenga said he’s called off potential acquisitions when a company’s performance in this department isn’t up to snuff.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

For example, in 2020, the first known wrongful arrest through misidentification via facial recognition software occurred when police mistakenly accused a Black man of committing a crime. Examples like CAHSI indicate that incorporating a sense of ethical and cultural responsibility to the public good in computing is possible.

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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. So, for example, I know of an ed tech company in the U.K.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2016

In an effort to commend these pioneers in the ed-tech industry and inspire others to follow in their footsteps, we want to find and share promising examples of how developers use and conduct research as they build and improve their products. Deadline to apply is September 30, 2016 at midnight PDT. Start your application now!

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support companies involved in teaching and learning. In 2016, Lumina launched a venture capital arm to make direct investments in education companies. New Markets Venture Partners was one of the early ones.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There have been 361 cybersecurity incidents involving public schools since 2016 according to the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center , and with rates increasing year over year , schools need to be more aware of issues with data privacy and enact targeted solutions to keep student data safe. Best Practices to Keep Student Tracking to a Minimum.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2020

Among the former are Stanford University and the University of Southern California, which, according to a 2019 story in student newspaper The Stanford Daily , have hosted tools designed by private company PopID that allow students to pay for meals at campus restaurants by scanning their faces.

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