2017 Company EdTech OER 
Doug Levin
AUGUST 20, 2017
(Mostly) back from my August hiatus, I’m pleased to offer up the next edition of A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News. The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools.
Edsurge
APRIL 12, 2018
New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned. The company is also banking on authors and adopters to check for quality themselves.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning.
Edsurge
MAY 6, 2019
Publicly-traded companies like Wiley generally share the price of their acquisitions, unless the financial impact is considered immaterial to the buyer’s bottom line. The New York City-based company has raised more than $180 million in investment capital. In its latest fiscal year earnings summary (for Nov. 1, 2018 to Jan.
Edsurge
MARCH 1, 2017
Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. How to Best Serve ELLs with Edtech : As the number of English Language Learners (ELL) in the U.S.
Edsurge
JANUARY 11, 2018
Then in July 2017 Amazon tried again, announcing a public beta version of Inspire. But this time the company disabled the “share” feature—a key component of the service. The company ended up restoring the sharing feature at the end of the summer. The company ended up restoring the sharing feature at the end of the summer.
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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