Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers. Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. Here’s the 2017 countdown, from #10 to #1. So what were some of the most popular themes? Well, at least partially open.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A majority of young adults already play video games, so using them in courses seems like a natural fit. For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. It Takes a Long Time. For example, W.W.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2020

I love it because videos and the editing projects move seamlessly between all of my student’s devices. She has been a presenter at ISTE 2019, NCCE 2016-19, the Southern Oregon EdTech Summit 2015-18, and IntegratED 2017-18. Sponsor: Adobe I use Adobe Premiere Rush to teach digital filmmaking in my classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

By integrating personal devices with their interactive board, these companies are creating a way for teachers to combine student-centered methods with their high-tech display.” Video, Virtual Reality and Other Rich Media Use. Video has proven to be an effective learning tool as well. wireless APs per classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Being nerdy pays off, and soon there will be another education technology company on the public market. Nerdy, the parent company of Varsity Tutors , an online tutoring platform, will be acquired by TPG Pace Tech Opportunities, a special purpose acquisition company. billion in 2017. Louis, according to the St.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator’s history. Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017. The company will not take more than $30,000 over the two years.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

It’s no small feat making Forbes “30 Under 30” roundup, which in 2017 boasts an acceptance rate of less than 4 percent. And although no current classroom teachers are included this year, 2017 brought with it another batch of former Teach for America (TFA) educators. Shots at getting into Stanford and Harvard are both higher.)

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Elizabeth Smart video we mentioned in the show. Dianne’s children’s book, Byron the Caterpillar Who Loved to Imagine (Yampa Valley Publishing, 2017) is a gift to all who read it, and Your Premature Baby and Child (Berkley, 1999) was written after her daughter was born extremely premature. Related Resources.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Zoom Video [link]. Those who leave a review between 2/1/2017 and 2/3/2017 will have two entries for each review. Dates: February 1, 2017 – February 14, 2017 at midnight EST. How Prizes Will Be Awarded : All names of people who leave reviews will be put into a random drawing by the prize administrator.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

It’s also a time when companies of all sizes and ages announce their latest updates and tools. Educators at a school can also set up their own channels and video conferences. Our bread and butter has always been middle school ELA,” a representative from the company explains. “Our classrooms. WHO GIVES A KAHOOT?:

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In the heartland of America, one company is raising big bucks in a bid to capture this lucrative market. Louis-based company’s $50 million Series B round, which closed in November 2015. Already boasting 4,000 tutors covering 1,000 subjects, the company is on the hunt for more teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Creating Positive Experiences to Promote Diversity and Acceptance First, I found this heartwarming Facebook post by Wendy Turner , 2017 Delaware Teacher of the Year. In the video from the classroom led by Michael Dunlea and Stacie Delaney, they say something similar. This blog post is sponsored by Empatico. All opinions are my own.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Video conferencing (VC) is a major part of doing business in the 21st century. Moreover, a video call can save energy, money, and reduce environmental impact in some surprising (but significant) ways. Video conferencing in previous years has been limited by high costs and network latency. Growing Demand for Video Conferencing .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Here are EdSurge’s top stories of 2017 in chronological order—a healthy dose of optimism and skepticism, words of encouragement and caution for the year ahead. Tired Edtech Trends That Teachers Wish Would Retire: From the Floor of ISTE 2017 “I feel like everyone talks about blended learning, and no one really knows what it means.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

Some of it has already been invested in startups including Class Technologies, which is building an instructional video platform on Zoom; Guild Education, which works with companies to provide educational opportunities to their employees; and Photomath, an app that shows students how to solve math problems, step by step, just by taking a picture.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Not only did I create a computer science video to help a wider audience of educators ( see below) , but my school now has aligned standards. Additionally, the course shared videos, articles, and research, which included what I needed to be using and modeling by professional educators using best practices. A Research Focus. Teachscape.

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MiddleWeb

DECEMBER 27, 2017

These words opened Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2017 as 171,000 live attendees and 10 million online viewers sat in awe taking in the video of trailblazers and the technologies they created that shaped the world forever. The post Dreamforce 2017: Ushering in the 4th Industrial Revolution appeared first on Duarte.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Instead of company founders presenting to crowds at a venue in the San Francisco Bay Area, they provided one-slide presentations, a company description and biographies of employees for a Y Combinator website. Here’s a look at some of the education-related companies “presenting” among the 197 companies in YC’s winter 2020 batch.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

8, 2018 – Three Epson higher education customers were selected for inclusion in the 2017 NewBay AV/IT College Standings. The college used the projectors to create a super-sized full-court video with the Sports Center floor as the projection screen. LONG BEACH, Calif. –

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User Generated Education

MARCH 18, 2019

The first step of this lesson will be to have them review articles and videos on this topic, and compose a short summary in their own words that defines social entrepreneurship. 2017 KidTrepreneur of the Year – [link]. People pitch a business because they need resources. Potential Resources for Students. Developing Your Pitch.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In its latest earnings update, the company confirmed that it is indeed moving ahead with such plans. In Pearson’s 2017 full-year results report , the publisher stated that “we have concluded the strategic review of our US K12 courseware business and have classified the business as held for sale.” billion) in 2017. “It

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The idea of using these hands-on environments teach complex technical skills like coding has garnered attention from major companies like Google , who teamed up with the American Library Association in 2017 to fund the creation of coding pathways in makerspaces throughout the country through the Libraries Ready to Code initiative.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

based company has acquired the KidSense artificial intelligence engine developed by Kadho. This Roybi promo video shows how kids interact with the robot. An Irish company, SoapBox Labs, has taken a similar approach to create early-childhood literacy tools. Founded in 2017, Roybi has raised $4.2 The Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. It’s an ultra-exclusive club of two dozen companies across the world, according to CB Insights. Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Companies across the globe continue to use social media as a vital part of their marketing strategy — creating content to connect and engage their audience. If you aren’t familiar with augmented reality (AR), it is computer-generated imagegry (CGI) that is overlaid onto camera-captured video. Video has already taken over the internet.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s rare enough for any entrepreneur to lead a company to a $275 million sale—in cash. But that’s how much Dave Dahl sold his family company , Dave’s Killer Bread, for in 2015. Today, it claims to be the largest organic bread company in America. He learned about it when the company reached out to him last November.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Sarraf hopes the robot and her company of the same name can reach homes and families, just as they have reached the wallets of two angel investors who have injected $4.2 The company did not disclose their names. The robot is not yet available; when it is, the company says it will retail for $299. Courtesy of Roybi the company.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

The key difference in the past few years, however, has been larger funding rounds and valuations across a fewer number of EdTech companies. This distorts the total private placement numbers we see since the well-funded companies completing the larger private placements pre-IPO comprise a large portion of the overall deal volume.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

The Beijing-based company may soon receive a funding boost to further those efforts and grow its tutoring platform. The raise would value the company at more than $3 billion. Founded in 2013, VIPKID connects North American English teachers to Chinese students via a live video tutoring platform.

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ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 14, 2019

Once used by almost every major tech company to create computer content Flash is being replaced by more modern and open platforms. At one time, Flash was THE pioneer and go-to program to create multimedia content, rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market following a foray into creating consumer toys. Sphero has acquired littleBits , a New York City-based company best known for its electronic kits and instructional resources that introduce kids to building and programming by hand.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. I started this program in the summer of 2017. Jody: We started in August of this year, so August 2017.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

Lifelong learning” is an ideal often celebrated in education circles, and a new company is setting out to prove that the pursuit of new skills and knowledge doesn’t stop at age 55, 62 or whenever Social Security retirement benefits kick in in the future. Yet he would argue that the early traction his company has seen suggests otherwise.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

On the other hand, there is a paucity of coverage about edtech companies that grow their businesses with little or no venture capital or outside investment. Bootstrapped companies rarely have “unicorn” potential and most aren’t nearly as sexy as their venture-backed counterparts. March 2017 Still no loan approval.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

In September 2017, five finalists were chosen to field test their tools with thousands of children across villages in Tanzania. The app offers a library of books and videos and 2,400 learning activities across 22 sessions covering math and reading. Enuma’s participation helped attract brand recognition for the company, Chung says.

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