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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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Lesson plans can be tailored to meet the learning needs of individual students. While the bulk of cybersecurity is in the hands of trained techs and professionals, students can learn how to effectively safeguard their online data. One of the world’s most notorious phishing scams seen in a campus environment occurred in 2016.

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Learning Student Data Privacy Data Software 254

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.

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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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EdTech Company Training Guidelines 173

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. They could train for a trade, for instance. The proportion who were aware that there were options close to home to train for jobs doing what they wanted went from 42 percent to 93 percent.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

There has been a lot of hand-wringing about who will step up to meet the current needs of the skills shortage, and higher education has come under scrutiny, accused of not equipping students enough for the workforce. We need to move quickly to educate workers across the country for jobs in tech, finance, healthcare and more.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

In a 2016 survey from NPR, Harvard and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one-third of parents reported it was difficult to find childcare; 2 in 3 say they had few “realistic” options. That paucity spurred Chris Bennett and two friends to start their own childcare service in the hills of Berkeley, California in late 2016. Montessori?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. businesses reported difficulty finding appropriately trained workers, up from 32 percent reported in 2015. Census Bureau 2016; U.S. This dichotomy is not lost on investors. Source: Sources: U.S.

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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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Technology Education Company Pearson 119

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. Currently, about 3,000 students are enrolled, according to Allred. Others jeered.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Part of the problem is that teachers don’t receive the training needed to work with children with math disabilities.

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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. Based Education Technology Companies (2011-2016). billion in venture funding.)

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EdTech Edmentum Industry Company 129

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

State funding has long allowed the university to offer face-to-face “advanced job training”—which can result in certificates in specialties such as hospitality and business administration, but not postsecondary degrees—to inmates in Ohio for decades. Then, in 2016, the U.S. Several have started their own companies.

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Technology Laptops Education Blackboard 134

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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The company, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, has raised $7 million to date. That experience would spur the pair to apply their academic training to build educational tools. What if we could better tailor literacy education to meet the needs of learners?” Lalilo has closed $5.5 Mezzour did not share pricing details.

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Exercises Company Data Training 61

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

In an interview with EdSurge, co-founder and CEO Austen Allred says the company plans to offer short-term programs in areas such as nursing—a field that is more regulated than the company’s existing training courses in coding, data science and web design. That expansion may not come organically.

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Company Industry Outcomes Training 79

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

To date, the New York-based company has raised nearly $16 million. To be sure, Silver’s critique of the bootcamp industry centers around the fact that other providers have tried to expand brick-and-mortar locations to provide in-person training. million in Series A funding from Owl Ventures and Tribeca Venture Partners.

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Industry Company Course Meeting 74

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. We worked with OpenIDEO to help students learn to lead difficult conversations about issues of race and diversity.

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Meeting MOOC Course Examples 65

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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

Among those who graduated in the class of 2016, for example, the Economic Policy Institute found that the underemployment rate—when workers take on jobs lower than their skill sets or training—was 12.6 It turns out TalentWorks isn’t the first company to promise young job seekers a spot in the interview chair. Matt Wilkerson.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards. While some institutions have tried to punt responsibility for the accessibility of digital tools to the companies that produce them, that reasoning hasn’t persuaded federal agencies or judges.

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Social Media Accessibility CMS Facebook 110

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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Company Industry Course Survey 94

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, acquired the Company in 2018 and will remain a major shareholder. The new investment from Blackstone will enable the Company to further accelerate organic growth initiatives and innovation across its product suite.

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Company Assessment Software Differentiated Instruction 56

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?

Technology 188

Technology Education Company Accessibility 188

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

It’s clearly not a question of “Let’s buy everyone a device and train teachers to buy a thousand apps.” Alan November One problem is that companies are still making money off of selling those “$1000 pencils” as ways to improve productivity. You go to these meetings, and people say, “Can I save money on textbooks?”

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Company EdTech Khan Academy Industry 60

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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E-rate Pearson Company Report 126

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

The annual tradition dates back to 2012, and features early-stage companies showing off the latest efforts to solve intractable problems across the education landscape. The company offers a suite of administrative software to help daycare providers execute a variety of tasks, from managing government subsidies to financial bookkeeping.

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Education Company EdTech Robotics 96

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 83

Chegg Company Industry Data 83

100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

What organizations and individuals need is competence, which requires the abilities and skills to apply knowledge to accomplish tasks and solve problems” ( Toikkanen, 2016 ). People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment” ( Bryant, 2013 ).

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How To Education Company Assessment 60

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

train future educators to teach online, experts say. 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. One struggle is digging through digital resources and “making sure they are meeting the standards” of the state.

Education 214

Education Handbook Course Elementary 214

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The district convened a series of meetings with teachers, school leaders, parents, city officials and community members to discuss what kind of educational system the community needed. Lindsay High School junior Gaby León said that other students she meets are fascinated when she tells them she’s never received a letter grade.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 132

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. Schools and businesses can meet halfway to close the mentorship gap. Photo: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.

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Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 107

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. “We

Sony 93

Sony Microsoft Industry Company 93

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As she puts it, she was “leaving a cushion”—a steady job she’d held for 10 years at an e-commerce company in New York—“for a question mark”—running a child care program out of her home. Those were the types of scenarios that no amount of training or reading could prepare her for, she says. But in time, she developed a few tricks.

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Training Meeting Groups Student Engagement 116

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Companies should contact Steve Hargadon at steve@hargadon.com for further details on opportunities to connect with our network.) Volunteering and Advisory Board A great way to meet other global educators is to volunteer to moderate conference sessions. Volunteers should attend a training session at their convenience.

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Conference Education Google Social Media 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. “Yet

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