Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Via Microsoft Translator , a translation service, students in classes and lectures can get automated transcriptions on their mobile and desktop devices. The company says its transcription technology is also useful at a broader level.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

-based think tank Foundation for Excellence in Education, and Boston-based analytics software company Burning Glass Technologies. The foundation was founded by 2016 presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. The company developed the Adobe Certified Associate credential. The report “is not meant to shame anyone.”

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 13, 2019

For schools using Office 365, Microsoft Teams brings together lesson content, collaboration and apps in one easy place for students to access. Here are five great apps you can use with your class inside Microsoft Teams. Want to have Video Questions and Answers directly in your classes Microsoft Team Channel? Find out more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2017

education sales in the first quarter of 2016. At BETT, a major edtech expo outside of London, Microsoft is taking square aim at Google with a slew of updates to its education products. based company is attempting to make a comeback on multiple fronts, starting with software. But that number could change. The Redmond, Wash.-based

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 6, 2016

Bloomz was one of my sponsors for ISTE 2016 this year, and I appreciate their support. Recent awards: Bloomz won the 2016 Edtech Digest Cool Tool Award for best new product or service. They also won the American Association of School Librarian’s Award for Best Websites for Teaching and Learning: Social Media 2016.

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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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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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Adam Welcome

MARCH 17, 2016

It was time to write this post - because it's 2016. Why are we still trying to convince people that Google Apps and Gmail is much more efficient and streamlined than Microsoft - and free! This is the world that we live in - even John Deere the equipment company is hiring a Mobile Application Developer.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Edsby, a cloud-based learning management system for K-12 school districts that connects teachers, parents and students using modern technologies, will soon be available on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s hyperscale, enterprise-grade cloud platform, as part of a global relationship between the two companies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The plan, announced Friday, is to let companies or colleges who already subscribe to LinkedIn Learning add content from a select group of other providers. The company or college will still have to subscribe to those other services separately, so it’s essentially an integration—but it does mark a change in approach.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 20, 2018

Welcome to the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Spotlight Series Podcast. Welcome to the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Spotlight Series Podcast. About Microsoft Education. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. Skypathon 2016.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

“Of course we’d be thrilled to see innovative ideas and even companies emerge from this, but the goal for the grants program is to help students and faculty discover our cloud and do incredible things,” Bout says. Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services offer an education partnership in free trials or discounted pricing. Cloud leaders.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

He co-founded eSped, a K-12 software suite to help districts serve special-needs students, which sold to Frontline Education in 2016, and has operated Blindfold Games since 2013 to offer accessible games to adults with visual impairments. The company says they have been downloaded over 500,000 times by 25,000 users.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. According to Futuresource, volumes in the first half of 2016 increased to 6.4 percent of units sold in the second quarter of 2016, up from 6.3 million shipments from 5.7

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2016

Archive360TM, a provider of email archive migration software, announced Archive2Azure , the industry’s first regulatory compliance storage solution optimized for the Microsoft Azure platform at ISTE 2016.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. He adds that New Markets has funded “a handful” of companies in this situation. (He The Fulton, Md.-based

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It’s almost as if the company doesn’t realize that educators’ memories, just as students’ educational careers, are long. That was preceded by the forever-in-beta Amazon Inspire, an educational resource sharing site launched in 2016 but kicked hard in the knees immediately afterward, when a handful of copyrighted items had been found posted.

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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

JUNE 23, 2020

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 8, 2016

Anthony Salcito tells the Content in Context 2016 audience about global challenges in education. “The senior officials are almost apologetic to me as an official for Microsoft,” he said, telling him that within the next five years some large percentage of their teachers will be retiring. Philadelphia.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Her original research went into the design of Renton Preparatory in Seattle, which was a 2016 Top Three STEM School in the nation. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki: Yes, you can use Ed Tech and Social Emotional Learning!

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. The firm aims to invest in up to another seven U.S.

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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

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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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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

In the 2016–17 school year, over 7,000 scholars from all FWPS participated in Hour of Code. In the spring of 2017, FWPS brought STEM experiences and local companies directly to scholars at the first annual STEM Exploration Night. STEM Exploration Night.

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STEM Robotics Microsoft Industry 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. 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. Photo: Stuart Isett for The Washington Post via Getty Images.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 15, 2016

The three major operating systems—Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Mac OS and iOS, and Microsoft’s Windows—are battling for dominance in sales, says Futuresource Consulting , the London-based research company that completed the study released earlier this month. In the first quarter of 2016, shipments reached 2 million, a 9.5

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. What do I mean? Will It Survive Trump’s FCC?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. The company has also begun partnering with other companies such as Pearson and Microsoft. Writing tools are particularly interesting to the company. Ramireze said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Swanson says she was drawn to Slack because of the role the company is playing in changing how people communicate with technology. One challenge of being at a fast-growing company, she says, is making sure information about how things work is maintained and shared as new employees quickly come onboard. Pull Learning'.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Financial details in transactions between private companies rarely see the public light. In the suit, BrightBytes claimed Hapara broke “no-shop” and confidentiality clauses to solicit a better offer from another company. The suit has been settled, and both companies are now charting independent paths.

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Hapara Company Industry EdTech 72

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Knewton technology is also used enVisionMATH2.0 , a Pearson offering for grades K-8, but neither company offered specific details on the status of this agreement.) “Our The value proposition that Knewton and its competitors have offered to these companies is that by collecting user data, the system can infer what a student knows—or doesn’t.

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Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 81

Fractus Learning

APRIL 10, 2021

Professionals like engineers, proposal managers, technology experts, and researchers using proofreading tools based on their company or profession’s house style sheet. The add-in works with Microsoft Word 2007 and above. PerfectIt Cloud works with Microsoft Office 365, 2016, 2019, and above. Who Owns PerfectIt?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As video technology continues to improve and virtual learning environments begin to rival in-person options, a growing number of companies will provide new pathways for learners to acquire a variety of skills, from machine learning and management to piano and parenting.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services.

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