eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The education sector is particularly vulnerable compared to other industries. California School District (Rural) “E-rate should extend their eligible products and services to network security software tools. Protecting students online is very important, and the software to do so should be eligible for funding from USAC.”

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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. To mitigate the perpetuation of these and related inequities, observers have called for increased diversification of the technology workforce.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

The nonprofit publisher of K-12 curriculum launched in 2016 expecting an audience for its digital offerings. No More Predictions One of the assumptions behind the Gates’ prediction is that the growth of instructional software will replace textbooks. Spending data suggests that instructional software is indeed growing in classrooms.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 157

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Instead, it has caught the attention of a European buyer: An Italian blockchain company that builds software to support the “Internet of Things” ecosystem has acquired Declara. Despite its struggles, Declara was fielding inbound interest from acquirers starting in 2016. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Industry EdTech Company Software 75

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

The Farmington, Utah-based provider of online courses for technology professionals has been on the radars of industry analysts ever since its $135 million Series B fundraise in 2014. It raised an additional $30 million in 2016 at a $1 billion valuation—thus earning the “unicorn” label. That year, it also added former U.S.

EdTech 112

EdTech Industry Company Software 112

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.) billion in 2017.

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EdTech Edmentum Industry Company 125

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Technological minutiae in the classroom carry such immense consequences that it can be hard to think beyond tomorrow’s software update, nevermind next year’s LMS rollout. Specifically, he called out the medical industry as a hot sector for future careers. In the daily edtech trenches, the forest is easily lost for the trees.

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Robotics Blackboard LMS Libraries 84

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

In addition, clinicians are demanding remote work alternatives and software solutions to make their work both more impactful and sustainable. is the leading provider of teletherapy and software solutions for special education related services and behavioral mental health counseling in K-12 schools. PresenceLearning, Inc.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Yet, all of this good news nearly overshadows the reality that there is a finite pool of skilled workers for many of the fastest-growing roles, including software development engineers, business analysts, genetic counselors, and nurse practitioners. Job creation continues to be up, with the U.S.

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Software Training Study Trends 126

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

Almost 30 percent of industry-recognized credentials American students recently earned relate to careers in architecture and construction. based think tank Foundation for Excellence in Education, and Boston-based analytics software company Burning Glass Technologies. Yet just 8 percent of them are in demand by employers.

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Company Report Adobe iPhone 126

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn.

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Software ProctorU Company Data 141

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

They will be led by CEO David King Lassman, who previously ran companies in the food, video and digital ad industries. But this latest gig (excuse the pun) also marks his return to the education industry. Back in the ’90s, he started a K-12 assessment software company, Doublestruck, which he sold in 1999.

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Pearson Company Learning Industry 110

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2023

But she saw more opportunity in the United States, where there is a projected demand for more than 160,000 new software developers and related specialists per year, and where tech companies said in a survey that recruiting them is their biggest business challenge. Sergei Nozdrenkov, a Russian software engineer who moved to the U.K.

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Training Policies Software Report 118

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

We did not make this a requirement, because we thought it would be good to have fresh eyes, someone who has led digital efforts from another industry.” In 2016, the company posted a £2.6 What Bird doesn’t bring to the nest: experience running an education organization. That didn’t concern Taurel. “We billion in sales.

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Pearson Company Report Industry 171

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Founded in 2016, Motivating Systems is the parent company for PBIS Rewards, Workplace Rewards and TRiO Perks—helping organizations motivate people to do their best. Through Motivating Systems’ software-as-a-service platforms, organizations can utilize technology and reward systems to motivate people with positive reinforcement.

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Software System Data Report 82

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Many of the investors are new to the industry, Brothers notes. There’s a lot of private capital around the world that has a new appreciation for this industry.” Between 2016 and 2019, online tutoring services raised more than $1.2 Coronavirus really changed that.

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EdTech Khan Academy Chegg Coursera 179

Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

The rise of AI-powered intelligent tutoring systems According to Technavio, the global artificial intelligence market in the education sector 2016-2020 will grow at a CAGR of more than 39% by 2020. Just imagine what goes into making such a software and what AI is capable of doing. Let’s look at what it will offer. ?

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Classroom Adaptive Learning Industry Software 127

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2021

He is a frequent speaker at education industry events and for years served as a sponsor and judge for the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. Claypool was named one of Nashville’s most admired CEOs and was named E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year for Social Responsibility in 2016. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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Education Industry Study Company 52

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

Educators can’t imagine a world where their industry isn’t able to stay the way it’s always been. This stage does not necessarily recognize the highest capabilities of digital technologies and merely substitutes old ways for a new mode with the lowest orchestration of software. Here are the stages you can expect. Strategy Years.

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Industry Software Data Strategy 100

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As much as 50 percent of employees in the country could be working in roles that require programming or software skills by 2030, according to estimates in a 2016 report by the National Broadband Network and the Regional Australia Institute. Trilogy’s worldly ambitious extend beyond Australia.

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Training Broadband Company Education 118

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Trade Industry. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Manufacturing.

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STEM Industry Data Survey 99

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

It takes the company 10 full-time staff, focused exclusively on this effort, to connect data from education software that don’t speak to one another. In many ways Panorama is diving headfirst into tackling the K-12 data interoperability problem, where software systems can’t easily share data with one another.

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Data Survey Company Education 140

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Company’s assessment-driven, integrated instructional ecosystem enables schools and districts to benchmark student progress; teach, plan, and respond to students’ needs in real-time with personalized instruction; and offer supplemental student literacy and math learning software solutions. About The Rise Funds.

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Company Assessment Software Differentiated Instruction 58

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.

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Company Industry Training Survey 95

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Esports, also known as competitive video game playing, have recently boomed into a billion-dollar industry, and college students are some of the biggest players. They are offering courses in marketing, communications and tournament management, all within the esports industry. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Industry Video Gamification Course 145

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the education technology industry, we see an abundance of press covering venture-backed startups and their funding rounds, acquisitions and other noteworthy milestones. This time, we validate ideas with our end users before developing the software. A CodaKid Minecraft Modding class meets at our Old Town Scottsdale academy in 2016.

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EdTech Sony Company Course 90

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves? If so, what new challenges have emerged?

EdTech 156

EdTech iPad Chromebook Industry 156

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2017

If students are truly “customers,” as some developers of higher-ed tools services have argued, then it’s no surprise that the biggest customer relationship management (CRM) provider is throwing its hat—and money—into the education industry. million A round in 2016.) To date, Viridis has raised nearly $7.5

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Software Training Data Industry 73

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

On paper, Weld North Education is made up of three companies: Edgenuity, a provider of online K-12 courses; Generation Ready, which offers K-12 professional development services; and Imagine Learning, which offers math and literacy software for elementary-grade students. Yet that’s not all.

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Symantec Kaplan Company EdTech 70

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2016

This is the second year in a row that edWeb.net has won this prestigious industry award. Details about the winning products can be found at [link] 2016-Winners. 29 awards were given for products and services deployed specifically for education and learning professionals.

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Social Media Technology Industry Education 40

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Ryan Greenberg: I’m currently a software engineer at Twitter, where I work on building Twitter’s tweet infrastructure (really). Over the past seven years, I’ve worked as a software engineer at Salesforce, Twitter and Pinterest (most recently there). Ryan Greenberg, Twitter Software Engineer And what about the bigger trends?

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Twitter Google iPhone Industry 132

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. billion in 2016, according to Goldman Sachs. million (A) 2016 Sinovation Ventures EnglishCentral $1.3 Last month.

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EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 91

edWeb.net

JULY 31, 2017

The winner announcement was made by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, during the annual Education Impact Symposium in San Francisco. ” edWeb has won a CODiE three years in a row. edWeb.net is free.

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Professional Learning Case Study Industry Social Media 40

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Training for electronic/digital devices: 33 percent.

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Course Study Survey Digital Badges 53

Edthena

MAY 19, 2016

On Wednesday, Edthena, a video classroom observation platform for teacher development, was named the best Professional Learning Solution for K-20 Faculty and Administrative Staff as part of the 2016 CODiE Awards, organized by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Read more at [link].

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Professional Learning Industry Software Learning 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Before, our only options were to send people to a training, sit in a course, and learn the material–whether from a university or a week-long certification,” says Shelly Holt, vice president of global learning for SAP, a leading enterprise-software company. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Coursera lynda.com Training MOOC 149

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

In 2013, TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in a deal that was greeted by the edtech industry as a sign that major technology giants were serious about expanding into education. TenMarks’ co-founders Andrew Joseph and Rohit Agarwal, joined Amazon Education after the transaction but left , respectively, in 2016 and 2017.

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Tools Company Instructional Materials Tablets 78