EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Edwards activated Louisiana’s Emergency Support Function 17 , a cyber incident response team created in 2017. Basic prevention, it would seem, is the most important category for the education sector, which was ranked last among 17 industries in cybersecurity preparedness, according to a SecurityScorecard study published in December 2018.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Recent forecasts point to a growing industry. Last month, Brightwheel, a child care management software provider, raised $55 million. From 2005 to 2017, the number of licensed small home-based child care programs dipped by almost half, according to data from the U.S. In 2019, total U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. Our analysis for the first half of 2019 only looks at U.S.

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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. Complicating matters was that Ramona Pierson, its iconic co-founder and CEO, fell ill with a medical complication that forced her to leave Declara in 2017.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017. Here’s what they’re working on: Lambda School The San Francisco-based startup combines some of the hottest trends in the edtech industry: computer science education, small classes, and income-share agreements. YC Demo Day 1 has begun @ycombinator #ycdemoday pic.twitter.com/YOem8vP3oG.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 11, 2016

Leadership at the Education Technology Industry Network is changing this week, as Karen Billings retires and Chris Lohse takes the reins as senior vice president and managing director of the 200-member organization. A long-term strategic objective will be elevating the reputation of the ed-tech industry in the eyes of the education community.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Daly was formerly CEO of LANDESK, an IT and security software firm that was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2010. Thoma Bravo then sold it to Clearlake Capital Group in 2017.) Such is the case for Frontline Education, a provider of K-12 administrative software.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

At the time, he was part of PLATO Learning, a school instructional software vendor now known as Edmentum. Brekhus’ story was just one shared from the main stage during the last day of the Software & Information Industry Association’s Ed Tech Industry Conference in San Francisco this week.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 7, 2019

Learning Counsel Research has been studying two things: 1) what technology can do and is already doing in many industries as well as state-of-the-art software for learning, and 2) where public education has failed, areas of success in public education and the rising demand for choice.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2020

Burning Glass estimates that there were over 9 million roles posted in 2017 that fit this category, and the number continues to grow. Two findings emerged: First, many people do not recognize the brand names of the software platforms employers frequently use in job titles.

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Doug Levin

JANUARY 3, 2018

I’ve been funded by industry and provided advice to investors and brands. By technology, I mean computing devices, the means to connect them, and the software they run. Or, just possibly, we’ll have a breakthrough in instructional software development and everything we know about schools will change. (I’m

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2017

I began writing on a TRS-80 from Radio Shack in 1983 on wonderful writing software called WordPerfect, which has mysteriously disappeared. But it is also fraught with risk, and the tech industry has not done enough to mitigate the risks. At any given moment in the day, I am attached to my cellphone, my iPad or my computer.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2017

Each week she and her partner, Kin Lane, an advocate for API software standards, dissect the latest tech news, with an eye to education and open software. Starting January 2017, the podcast will alternate weekly between K-12 and higher education interviewees.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Private equity firm Francisco Partners quietly announced last week that it led an investment round in Civitas Learning, an Austin, Texas-based education company best known for its predictive analytics software used in higher-ed institutions. Civitas’ most recent deal has industry watchers curious.

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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. billion have revenue by the end of 2017, and projects that number to increase to $14 billion by 2022.

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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 2017 NewBay AV/IT College Standings list is featured online and in the December 2017 print issue of AV Technology Magazine. LONG BEACH, Calif. –

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, February 13, 2018 — The Vernier Software & Technology Total Solar Eclipse campaign recently won a Silver award in the 2017 One PlanetBest in Business and Professional Excellence Awards in the PR or Marketing Campaign of the Year category.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 21, 2019

Professional athletes and actors make big money, and those professions seem a lot more accessible to many young people than say, a computer analyst or someone working in the space industry. Cyber-crime is a growth industry in these countries. To learn more about the drone industry, start here. SPACE INDUSTRY.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

With more than 4 billion users now connected to the internet, 50% of the global population (Forbes, December 2018), it is not surprising that the education sector has embraced devices and software to interact, engage, and enhance the learning environment for students. in 2017 (PWC Money Tree Report, January 2019). compared to $76.4B

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Founded in 2017, Roybi has raised $4.2 This KidSense video shows the software in use with a Qualcomm board. million in revenue from customers on annual contracts and through software service cales. Acquisitions in the category of toys to teach kids coding include LittleBits and Dexter Industries. It had raised $2.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The global education technology industry is headed for a record-setting year when it comes to venture capital investments. Yet financiers there, like their counterparts across the world, are eyeing this industry with greater interest as the pandemic has accelerated demand for educational services. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Based in New York, Fullstack Academy offers remote and in-person career training programs focusing on software engineering. The deal also represents yet another consolidation for the coding bootcamp industry. In 2017, Dev Bootcamp and Iron yard announced they were shutting down operations, and in 2018, Learners Guild followed suit.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

PRWEB) JUNE 23, 2022 — Kajeet® , a leading provider of wireless connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver secure, reliable and managed IoT solutions to over 3,000 businesses, schools and districts, and state and local governments, today announced the 22 recipients of its 2022 Homework Gap Grant. MCLEAN, VA.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

Melbourne city officials also launched a Startup Action Plan in 2017, with the goals of drawing more tech companies to the region and luring local students with the opportunities that would follow. Trilogy has situated itself somewhat adjacent to the coding bootcamp industry by working within colleges and universities themselves.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Some programs offer certifications recognized industry associations like NCCER (for construction) and OSHA, a standard workplace safety program. So far Nucleos, founded in 2017, has a small footprint. Nucleos plans to charge correctional facilities directly for the use of its software. And stay out.”

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

The announcement states: “The industry as a whole is still young and its leaders face the challenge of a nascent market, as well as the demands facing all institutions in the higher education marketplace.” Tressie Mc (@tressiemcphd) July 20, 2017. Jessica D'Amico (@justjessdc) July 21, 2017.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Its largest institutional shareholders are Insight Partners, which led its $21-million Series B round in 2017, followed by Reach Capital.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2019

publishing industry put out 339,000 new books. based organization, which was founded in 1989 and operates according to the slogan, “software for social good.” Since mid-2017, Benetech piloted the GCA program with nearly a dozen publishers (among them Macmillan). Department of Education in 2017. In 2015, the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2018

Learners Guild , which offered a 10-month program for aspiring software engineers, has shut down. Learners Guild has removed many of the traditional barriers to acquiring the skills one needs to become a developer at a technology company,” Mitch Kapor, a partner and founder of Kapor Capital,” told CNET in 2017. million.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2017

“Most of us expected the possibility that we would be shut down, but if you asked me if when I was expecting it, I wouldn’t have said in 2017.” Dev Bootcamp started in 2012 and has since been hailed as one of the country’s first and largest coding bootcamps in an industry that is now saturated by hundreds of competitors. Mark Stewart.

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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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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. January 2017 We apply for a federal SBA (Small Business Association) 7(a) loan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

School district administrators and principals are inundated with salesmen peddling computers and software programs. While hardware alone isn’t making kids smarter, students need computers and the internet to use educational software. Some math software shows promise. Photo: Meredith Kolodner. Can they be believed?

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 13, 2019

For over 30 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards have honored thousands of software, education, information and media products for achieving excellence. It is amazing how many products are designed in a vacuum outside of real classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She has her own computer, educational software and high-speed internet. In 2017, 53 percent of the students in the K-12 public education system in the United States were Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous or multiracial. Jennifer is in sixth grade. Maria is also in the sixth grade.

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edWeb.net

JULY 31, 2017

edWeb.net has won the 2017 CODiE Award for “Best Professional Learning Solution for Faculty and Administrative Staff.” Here is a list of all the 2017 CODiE winners. ” The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase education technology’s finest products and services.

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