The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

He has had the opportunity to share his approach to Computer Science education at ISTE (2015, 2018), FETC (2019, 2020) BIT (2014, 2019), CONNECT (2019, 2020), Schoology NEXT (2018), as well as in interviews with major newspapers (Toronto Star, 2017).

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JUNE 30, 2016

tech firms, including edtech players. China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. billion by 2018. Still, companies looking to do business in China face a “tangle of issues.”. percent of gross domestic product by 2020.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Here are some edtech pandemic pivots to watch.

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JUNE 30, 2020

Indian online education startup Byju’s, which already reached the billion-dollar valuation from private investors in 2018, can now claim a new distinction: “decacorn.” 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.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Fri, 09/28/2018 - 10:10. Computer science has taken a priority slot for K–12 teachers , as experts forecast a majority of jobs will incorporate some kind of coding skills or computational thinking by as early as 2020. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Find out what professional development your teachers need to run a successful makerspace !

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DECEMBER 25, 2019

Here’s a look at the biggest edtech business stories of 2019—the ones that captured the most attention, and the ones that should have your attention. A $157M Fundraise for Guild Education Births Edtech’s Newest Unicorn by Tony Wan Unicorns don’t exist, except when they’re of the billion-dollar valuation variety.

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APRIL 23, 2019

They’re abbreviations for major conferences for companies in the education industry. That was early in the days of low-cost cloud computing enabling a multitude of new edtech startups, really fast internet beginning its spread to schools, and Chromebooks starting their climb to ascendance in U.S. K-12 classrooms as a 1:1 mobile device.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

The latest quarterly earnings for publicly traded education technology companies was especially rough for 2U , which revised its loss guidance for the year and stated that it expected enrollment challenges to its core business of running online graduate programs with universities. based company tumbling to historic lows. (It

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JANUARY 23, 2019

If it seems baffling that companies with no revenue can raise money from private investors ( ahem , as some edtech startups did in the early 2010’s), then EdTechX Holdings might just sound outright crazy at first. EdTechX Holdings is a “special purpose acquisition company,” or SPAC for short.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future. This trend, too, has seen a jump forward due to the pandemic.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

Already, one New York-based edtech company has raised $100 million. Patterson says his team started fundraising back in summer 2018, and quickly attracted an international group of family offices, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and foundations to chip contribute to the fund as limited partners. based companies.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But now, with much of regular schooling happening in homes, the company has seen a dramatic expansion of its audience. To date, the company has raised $55 million. In the edtech industry, venture capital flows where business grows, and that’s been the case for the San Francisco-based company.

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JULY 24, 2019

To do that, it is partnering with Games and Learning , a for-profit company, to build a new marketplace for online educational materials, particularly games. Last week, the company received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation and Research program to put that idea to the test.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. But what may surprise some readers of the report, released Monday, is what the United States can learn from developing nations when it comes to bringing together all parties interested in edtech. Take Chile, for instance.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

The education technology investment firm first launched in January 2020 as a partnership between Western Governors University and EPIC Ventures, and raised over $52 million for its first fund. At Kaplan, she managed its online higher-ed business and its edtech startup accelerator, and started a scholarship fund for undocumented students.

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Kaplan EdTech Company Industry 89

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In 2020, an estimated 19.5 The company is also currently turning a profit, according to Carrera. The company has changed hands several times. billion by Hellman & Friedman, which then sold Renaissance to a different private equity firm, Francisco Partners, in 2018 for an undisclosed price. public school districts.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.” A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition).

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Artwork submissions for this free youth art contest are accepted this year from November 1, 2019, through January 31, 2020. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. ” The post Using Comics to Teach Chemistry (and more!)

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company began 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. San Francisco based Owl Ventures is the largest edtech sector-focused venture capital firm in the world. In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

On June 27, 2018, the California Legislature, in a flurry of last-minute activity, passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on the same day, and the CCPA is set to become effective on January 1, 2020. and globally, and moves the U.S. So what does the law do?

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techlearning

MAY 29, 2018

What could this mean for edtech? As part of a $400 million initiative to fund STEM education, the company has announced plans to double the number of in-school programs it supports—from 100 middle schools in September 2018 to 200 middle schools by the end of 2020. First, there was sneakernet.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Since 2018, she has been a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the global education sector. From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns. Distance reduction allow companies to compete worldwide.

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JUNE 1, 2018

million in revenue in the first quarter of 2018—up 42 percent from the same period last year. That’s how much the Landham, Maryland-based company raised through its latest public offering of common stock this week. Another 16 digital graduate programs are planned for 2019, and another 19 in 2020). It posted $92.3

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With the rise of COVID-19, this shift crossed a crucial threshold and created a demand for the edtech industry to provide solutions that don’t supplement or replace the teacher, but instead, pave the way for a new way to teach and learn. In 2020, teachers launched approximately 19.5 million Nearpod lessons, collecting approximately 1.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 billion by 2020. The company claims users in more than 14,000 U.S. Of that figure, about $12.3

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Another bootcamp has been gobbled up by an education technology company looking to break into the corporate learning and career readiness market. During the earnings call, K12 executives estimated about $50 million in revenue from Galvanize in 2020, putting the sales price at about 3.3 times that. million for the quarter ended Dec.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

With extensive experience in finance and operations, Naseath, CPA, CFE and CISA, will further Osmo’s global growth, creating operational excellence across the company and scaling the company’s vision of making a broader impact to education. . Masters in Information Systems Management) and a B.S. About Osmo from BYJU’S. About BYJU’S.

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Company Strategy Analysis Report 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Ingram bought Chegg’s textbook inventory to sell and distribute, and the companies shared the revenues. Chegg has since moved most of its business into digital services for students—services that accounted for 79 percent of Chegg’s 2018 revenue and 74 percent of its revenue for the third quarter of this year, which ended on Sept.

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Chegg Company Training Data 64

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

Part of that shift has been due to regulatory changes like the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act , which goes into effect in 2020, and the European privacy law known as GDPR, which has some institutions rethinking their approach to data collection, storage and privacy.

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Education Data Trends Company 144

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. The company agreed—and made it happen. So in 2018, when Empower was pressured by a large district customer to support a different open data standard— IMS Global’s OneRoster—the company was reluctant.

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Data LMS Company Education 104

Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode, Kasey chats with noted education technology author , podcast host, and edtech CEO, Al Kingsley. He’s been in edtech for more than 30 years and has written and spoken extensively on student privacy and security, from enabling active, life-saving student interventions to data security and personal privacy. .

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Digital Citizenship EdTech Data Technology 95

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A spokesperson for WeWork (officially called The We Company) said it “will continue to operate WeGrow through the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.” But “as part of the company’s efforts to focus on its core business, WeWork has informed the families of WeGrow students that we will not operate WeGrow after this school year.

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Elementary Company Report Classroom 77

eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is proud to announce that its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 received the highest rating from EdReports.org. enVision ® A|G|A Common Core © 2018. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

But a recent investment from one of the biggest names in the entertainment business is valuing the company in the hundreds of millions. TechCrunch reports that the deal gives the company a $376 million valuation. That may seem like a lofty figure for a company expecting to make $2 million in revenue this year.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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Pearson Kaplan Company Education 90

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Right now we are looking for teams of educators, edtech entrepreneurs, and diversity-focused education leaders across the nation. In fact, it prompted us to increase our goal for Black and Latino leaders in the education sector—from 30 percent to 40 percent—by the year 2020.

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