Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Why was the fitness app so “sticky” as opposed to the online learning platforms? How could we apply the same practices to learning? What was happening?

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

2016 is now well underway, but few could say how it will end or what major changes we’ll see as the year unfurls. In 2016, I believe we will see more learners creating, making, programming, coding, producing, innovating, inventing, designing, problem solving and publishing. Mobile learning. GoConqr Click To Tweet.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. 2016 Brightspace Awards for Excellence Winners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. But the New York-based company had already served 45 million students in more than 190 countries before the pandemic hit. “We A sample project in Codecademy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Illinois’ effort to bring online learning to juvenile justice facility classrooms is rare nationwide. Once they start, they really want to keep going.”.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Without modern technology and near-constant connectivity, online learning wouldn’t be possible. But while we have the internet to thank for our contemporary, robust e-learning landscape, security and privacy concerns are rampant as well. How students can help secure their personal data.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A new $5 million investment fund launched this month to support startups building tools to scale online learning. Early-stage companies whose goals are usually to get as many eyeballs and users as possible may find those terms restrictive. But for entrepreneurs seeking to tap into this pot, there’s a catch.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Since the turn of the century, Pearson has acquired more than two dozen education companies. But last year, as it was selling assets and slashing jobs left and right amid a major reorganization, CEO John Fallon said the company had curbed its appetite for buying startups. It was just the right company at the right time.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2019

Among the graduates were a half dozen education technology companies. From K-12 classrooms to professional sales training, many entrepreneurs would say that learning is better together, with peers and instructors. That also applies to “bootcamp” models of online learning, which made up half of the six edtech graduates.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. And “non-traditional” students appear more okay with remote online learning than their “traditional” peers. Its measurement gathered up “more than one million” fall screenings given using its FastBridge adaptive assessments going back to fall 2016.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. Here’s a look at how the education company is responding. But these massive open online courses still continue to shape the way people around the world learn and access education. In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

But to earn a fully-accredited degree, students in online pilot programs must take additional exams to qualify—credentials that don’t carry the same academic standing as those awarded on campus. Michael Wang, CEO of Beacon Education, a Beijing company I consult with that delivers U.S. online degrees in China.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA). It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

That meant using online learning to serve people who would otherwise have no access to higher education. And India did initially leverage online learning by allowing its universities and colleges to launch a wide range of online programs. But there were two problems.

Education 109

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Based on real-life applications and digital tools, lessons in Essential Skills for Remote Learning guide students through technical concepts in a fun, game-based environment. 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 68

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality.

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

General Assembly’s CEO Jake Schwartz told Reuters on Wednesday that he is looking into the company’s financing options, and that includes potentially selling the New York-based coding bootcamp. But it’s still unclear how serious the company is about finding a new owner for its 22 campuses, which are located around the U.S.

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Industry Company Trends Report 61

Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

In the latest dealmaking news, Workday acquired online learning platform Zaption, while Blackboard teamed with Dreamit to support ed-tech startups. Workday Acquires Zaption: Workday , a provider of enterprise cloud management applications for human resources and finance, has acquired online learning platform Zaption.

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Blackboard Company Industry EdTech 53

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

I literally used to tell people that if we ever do something in early learning, it should be as good as what the Duck Duck Moose team does. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. And they were also not just edu-tainment.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

They created 2Rev as an education design lab—a place where designs for innovative learning models could be developed and tested. From 2008 - 2011, the company worked on projects spanning early childhood, grades K-12, higher education and the workforce, while simultaneously crystallizing its philosophy.

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Competency Based Learning Company Learning Blended Learning 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

- Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. 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. He founded Education Elements to meet that need.

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

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

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Another review , conducted by respected researchers in math education (but funded by a calculator company), came to a similar conclusion. There has recently been much online hand-wringing over this state of affairs, with commentators aghast at the continued dominance of graphing calculators when compared to inexpensive or free apps.

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ASIDE

APRIL 4, 2016

Source: ASIDE 2016 We just finished attending the New York College Learning Skills Association ( NYCLSA ) Symposium in Saratoga. If companies spend billions of dollars on advertising to grab our attention, it would make sense for educators to think about information design as well.

Education 49

Education Industry Company Online Learning 49

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. There are still a handful of timber companies in Onalaska, but the timber industry in Washington has been declining since World War II. Census data. The median age declined from 36.6

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

I am thrilled for all the teachers and students in our district as we start a new chapter in online learning with Discovery Education. The Subaru of America Foundation is an integral part of how Subaru lives out its Love Promise and delivers on its promise to be “More Than a Car Company ”. About Subaru of America, Inc.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Inside Higher Ed (IHE) recently issued their 2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology and we were excited about the big initial finding that more faculty are teaching online and that more are finding that online learning can meet the same outcomes. Autumm was a fellow at a Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute in August of 2016.

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EdTech Survey Software Report 156

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. 2016 Institutional Awards. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards.

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 83

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

LEAVING THE AMAZON: At last year’s SXSWedu, Amazon’s Education team and the company’s General Manager of K-12 Education, Rohit Agarwal, launched the " Inspire " platform, with promises to support the open education resources space. However, his LinkedIn profile shows that he left Amazon in October of 2016. at a later date.

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Tools Student Data Privacy Data Policies 68

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

Finally, there are states that had some version of a law prior to 2020 and proceeded to add provisions to better address the needs of distance learning. of California’s Public Contract Code only addressed online learning in the context of surplus technology and nonprofit computer labs. Jennifer E.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 138

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. But “online teacher” is a profession that predates the pandemic. “We are very much focused on classroom teaching.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts.

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STEM Report Course Study 126

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

Pearson today announced that it is responding to rocky conditions and poor performance in international markets by laying off 4,000 workers and putting a greater focus on adaptive courseware and classroom products, as well as blended and online learning. Ramping Up Online Programs.

Pearson 40

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