EdTech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2020

But they must not forget about how crucial it is to have cybersecurity measures in place before rolling out their e-learning plans. Since 2016, there have been more than 800 cybersecurity-related incidents affecting U.S. Schools are already increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

But they must not forget about how crucial it is to have cybersecurity measures in place before rolling out their e-learning plans. Since 2016, there have been more than 800 cybersecurity-related incidents affecting U.S. Schools are already increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 22, 2020

But they must not forget about how crucial it is to have cybersecurity measures in place before rolling out their e-learning plans. Since 2016, there have been more than 800 cybersecurity-related incidents affecting U.S. Schools are already increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

But they must not forget about how crucial it is to have cybersecurity measures in place before rolling out their e-learning plans. Since 2016, there have been more than 800 cybersecurity-related incidents affecting U.S. Schools are already increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 20, 2020

But they must not forget about how crucial it is to have cybersecurity measures in place before rolling out their e-learning plans. Since 2016, there have been more than 800 cybersecurity-related incidents affecting U.S. Schools are already increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Never has Jillian Raleigh seen such a wide variance in where her learners are socially, technology-wise and academically than now. Others are new to the district, and some lack experience with school technology. The goal was to get direct-from-the-classroom suggestions and feedback on everything technology and edtech.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Part technologist, part artist, part manager, part synthesizer she is passionate about the use of technology in higher education and the many differing facets of how technology impacts society and culture. Additionally, they surveyed “Digital Learning Leaders” to see how they felt about some (but not all) of the items in the survey.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

If online weren’t in the picture, on-campus enrollments, as reported in the most recent U.S. Department of Education 2016 results, would have fallen by more than 1.5 percent from 2015 to 2016 to reach 6.4 Today, online students represent 31.6 Whatever growth is happening in higher ed is driven by online,” Seaman says.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2016

By Jena Passut Schools find ways to enable students to work on digital assignments at home.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The edtech entrepreneurs, educators, investors and other education professionals that share their opinions and practices through storytelling on our site are invaluable to this industry, and we celebrate them. Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. As some schools reopen, edtech product use declines. And “non-traditional” students appear more okay with remote online learning than their “traditional” peers. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. That, in itself, is a learning loss.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2019

Over Monday and Tuesday earlier this week, entrepreneurs from 189 startups took the stage for Demo Day, the de-facto graduation ceremony for Y Combinator, one of the technology industry’s most recognizable startup accelerator programs. Among the graduates were a half dozen education technology companies.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2017

According to CrowdfundCampus, crowdfunding equity surpassed that of venture capital funding for the first time in 2016. Click here to learn more! Educational platforms, in particular edtech, are seeing ideas come to life as a result of crowdfunding. New Learning Methods. One such niche is education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Money has flowed into the edtech sector over the last twelve months. Unlike other edtech startups seemingly on the fast track to big checks, Codecademy has been in the business for over a decade. The company last raised $30 million in a Series C round led by Naspers in 2016, and a $10 million Series B back in 2012.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Many online learning platforms, such as LinkedIn Learning and MasterClass, are indeed pivoting towards business models that look a lot like subscription-based streaming services Pandora, Spotify or Netflix. Even as we reinvent the platforms and modalities for learning, the teachers at the center of the model are losing out.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Paying for technology shouldn’t have to come solely out of a school or district’s already-strapped budget. For some districts, the best way to attain massive amounts of money to pay for edtech purchases or initiatives is through bonds. There’s money to be found on that site. Educators can apply between January 15 and April 15, 2017.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

With China muscling its way into the first ranks as a global power in science and technology— building vast new academic complexes, climbing to the top ranks of the world's elite universities, surpassing the U.S. online degrees in China. In 2016, MOOCs claimed more than 10 million enrollments in the country.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That’s why we’ve also highlighted a few here that we don’t want you to miss, from complicated community college turnarounds to where IKEA and edtech overlap. Massive open online course providers gained momentum and attention by claiming to offer a free alternative to traditional degrees. What Do Edtech and IKEA Have in Common?

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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. In 2016, ASU created an accelerator that provides product development and testing assistance (but not investment capital) to education technology entrepreneurs.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

2016 so far has been a very challenging year, yet also very rewarding. One very good thing of 2016 was that the ed tech world never stopped evolving, not even for a second. Educators around the world either discovered or got better at using technology in their instruction, for both K-12 and higher ed students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A handful of other universities (and even preschools ) now accept Bitcoin for tuition, but that’s hardly the extent of how blockchains and tokens are weaving their way into education: Educators and edtech entrepreneurs are now testing out everything from issuing degrees on blockchains to paying people in cryptocurrency for their teaching.

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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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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 29, 2023

Thanks to online learning platforms , they can now earn a degree from recognized institutions and enhance their skill sets while learning from the comfort of their homes. Summing Up The Structure of eLearning Courses eLearning classes are delivered through online learning platforms.

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Kevin Corbett

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

What’s on the five-year horizon for K-12 Educational Technology & which trends and technologies will drive educational change? This publication charts the five-year horizon for the impact of emerging technologies in school communities across the globe.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

The rate of change has increased exponentially due to the rapid creation of new content that is produced as technology and life have become seamless. The rate of change continues to have an impact on our education system because students today— Generation Z —have only known life with touchscreen technology. So, let’s embrace it!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

And then in 2015 or 2016, my assistant says, “Hey, this company wants to meet. One app that adapts to the users where they are, which is kind of a core principle of Khan Academy—that notion of personalization and mastery learning—and then be standards-aligned, which is also different than what most edtech on the App Store does.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

For instance, at last year’s conference, only 3 percent of the 350 panels explicitly addressed the role that technology plays in widening or closing the opportunity gap. However, his LinkedIn profile shows that he left Amazon in October of 2016. Georgia State launched the chatbot in April 2016. at a later date.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Neil Heffernan, a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, came up with the idea in 2016 after a Maine middle school math teacher, Chris LeSiege, uploaded hundreds of hints he had written for solving textbook problems to Heffernan’s free online homework help website, ASSISTments.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. I left my position running university internships abroad and went head first into the edtech world.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

When edtech companies approach Kara Monroe, they all tout how their product is different from everybody else’s. There’s huge amount of money coming into the edtech market for adaptive learning, personalized learning, competency-based materials, open materials. So much is coming at us,” Monroe says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

With edtech, specialized isn’t always better. Technology designed for educators is pushed “as if our ones and zeroes are special,” keynote speaker Clay Shirky told top librarians, publishers and administrators at the Ithaka Next Wave 2017 conference, held in New York City on Wednesday. They’re in charge of the technology.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Tara Gilboa, Online Learning Experience Designer at Colorado School of Mines The LMS Checklist #1: Is the platform straightforward and user-friendly? The best way to ‘prepare’ for future technological changes is to go with an LMS that plays well with external tools.". Some things just have to be dead simple.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

As edtech buzzwords new and old swirl , it is easy for educators to get lost among the fads du jour, much less apply the principles behind lofty ideas to make meaningful progress for students. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology.

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techlearning

AUGUST 29, 2018

This is a larger increase than has occurred in either the biotech or cybersecurity spaces according to this article on Medium. ] The laptop computer narrowly edges out the desktop computer and tablet as the most popular classroom technology. Some courses, even at large state universities are online offered online.

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