Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

billion, 2019 offers some edtech investors hope that their bets could pay off. Fuller, who has covered the edtech industry for over a decade, recently shared her take on current trends on edtech mergers and acquisitions. So by the time 2019 rolled around, it was like all the big deals had been done.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 17, 2019

As education institutions fully embrace integrating technology in their pedagogy, here are 5 EdTech trends educators need to watch this year: Integrated Learning Solutions. With more and more technology being integrated into the educational sector, this can further aggravate technology gaps within countries and industries.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

In 2019, the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 28,000 points , the S&P 500 Index topped 3,000 points and the Nasdaq broke 9,000 in what some have termed one of the longest bull markets in history. education technology sector in 2019. billion across 105 deals in 2019, a five-year high in value.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

As we look ahead to the future in edtech, we see an industry marked by significant change and stubborn challenges. While it’s always risky to make predictions, I believe there were several strong trends from 2018 that suggest the shape of things to come in 2019.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

After the pandemic, the edtech market exploded with new products and services, and investment flowed freely. Educators struggled to meet students' needs without proper technology tools, training and infrastructure, and edtech innovators capitalized, introducing much-needed solutions. Now, the industry is in a reset.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2019

In China, the edtech industry appears to be immune to the whiplash that has hit venture investing across other sectors. Education investments showed modest growth in the first quarter of 2019, even as venture investing in China in all other sectors dropped sharply. Industry leaders are bullish about the trend.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

ICE 2019: Physical Arrangement Sets the Tone for K–12 Modern Learning Environments. Tue, 02/26/2019 - 12:04. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued ICE 2019 coverage. We are in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution,” Brown said. eli.zimmerman_9856. It is not working in rows anymore.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Public and private edtech companies felt the pain of these poor results, announcing more than 8,000 layoffs in an industry that only employs about 100,000 people. It’s a tough time to build or invest in an edtech company.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

They’re abbreviations for major conferences for companies in the education industry. What sets them apart from purely teacher-focused conferences is that industry players aren’t viewed mainly as vendors who pony up for a sponsorship or exhibit booth. For more education technology events, check out our 2019 calendars: U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We asked 49 edtech executives to look into their crystal balls and share their thoughts about what will happen in 2019. Read on to see what’s in store for 2019… Berj Akian, CEO, ClassLink. The trend of schools implementing adaptive and digital experiences will continue and increase in 2019.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2019

FETC 2019: How K–12 IT Leaders Can Advise on Data Privacy. Mon, 01/28/2019 - 10:02. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued FETC 2019 coverage. Learn from Industry Frameworks Beyond Education. eli.zimmerman_9856. Educate Administrators on Privacy Best Practices and Principles.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Indian edtech giant Byju’s keeps getting bigger , having raised more than $4.5 Specifically, the company announced a new research-and-development hub, with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, that will work on applying the latest findings from artificial intelligence and machine learning to new edtech products.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We expect 2019 to bring more new faces and fresh ideas. Know an international edtech event we should include? Red events focus on the business and industry side of the ecosystem; expect plenty of technologists, entrepreneurs and funders. Don’t sweat. Be on the lookout for that in the upcoming weeks. Tell us here.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Yet this reality seems not to have dampened investor enthusiasm for private edtech companies.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2018

3 Ways K-12 Schools Can Improve Their Cybersecurity in 2019. The education sector is the least secure of 17 industries studied this year, according to a new report released Thursday. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 12/17/2018 - 08:53. 3 Points of Security Vulnerabilities in the Education Sector. "The

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Edsurge

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. industry, eclipsing last year’s tally. Some deals have given birth to new unicorns, the industry parlance for private businesses valued at over $1 billion.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2019

Our team has crisscrossed the country during the first half of 2019 to bring you stories from schools , campuses , conferences , convenings and other education events all over the map—from SXSW EDU in Austin and ASU GSV in San Diego to ISTE in Philadelphia and ASCD in Chicago. Put another way: Where have I been and where am I going?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Performing well in today’s digitally driven workforce requires learning the relevant skills and putting in hard work, no matter the profession or industry. a workforce of more than 3 million people as of 2019–2020 — are no different when it comes to the need for up-to-date technology to do their jobs efficiently.

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But unlike our other blogs, we’re about to discuss education in the mainstream institutional domain, but in the coaching/training industry. The coaching and training industry in India is a booming sector and it has seen unprecedented growth in the past decade. What drives this growth of the parallel education industry.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Mitch served on the Board of the Ed-Tech Industry Network (ETIN) of the SIIA from 2012-2019, was cochair from 2015-2016, and was the chair in 2019. Presently, beginning in January 2019, Mitch became US COO of 3DBear, a Finnish EdTech company that uses Augmented Reality to motivate students to engage and learn deeply.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The entertainment industry is hardly alone in overlooking some of its top talent. Each and every year, top-notch education technology found- hers are passed over by investors—to the detriment of an industry in need of disruption and new ideas. The industry is long overdue for a change. Out of 575 unicorns.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

ETS has dabbled in edtech deals before. That move away from high-stakes exams is “certainly one of a number of trends that will drive the education industry, and we are looking to capitalize on opportunities to grow new business areas for ETS,” says Taylor-Smith. Across the globe, edtech companies have already raised $4.8

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. That amount is a 17 percent dip from the $962 million we tracked for the first six months of 2019 (which ended up being a record year for US edtech venture capital.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

This money will support edtech deals at the seed, Series A and later fundraising stages. Despite having invested in dozens of edtech startups over the past decade, Quazzo says there are no shortage of intractable problems remaining in education. Over the past couple years, GSV Ventures has been expanding its horizon beyond the U.S.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

With that in mind, we invite you to help us tell our stories at SXSW EDU 2019 to spread the word on topics like learner variability, educator micro-credentials, immersive storytelling with 360° technology, maker learning, edtech pilots, data interoperability, and more. Empowering Educator Voice through Edtech Pilots.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Wed, 11/20/2019 - 13:14. MORE FROM EDTECH: Want to start an esports program at a K–12 school? Since then, access to personal computers and the internet as well as other advancements in technology have supported esports’ growth into a substantial industry with professional teams, high-stakes competitions, team sponsorships and more.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Wed, 04/17/2019 - 13:43. The burden is on us to show them the career connection — that a drone is a tool and that many industries use it,” Duane Roberson, Colorado Springs School District 11 's director of career and technical education and concurrent enrollment, told EdTech. 4 Steps to Create an Effective K–12 Drone Curriculum.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2018

The goal is to merge engineering and design research happening at the city’s universities with resources and opportunities from the media and technology industry—to develop new prototypes, explore applied R&D projects, launch new companies and encourage the latest thinking.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

In similar fashion, problematic edtech companies with grand visions and little follow-through don’t just affect the investors pouring funds into the space; they also potentially put learners into compromising situations. But who was—or is—the Theranos of the education sector? Yet, fast forward to 2022, and AltSchool no longer exists.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2018

These were just some of the challenges addressed by innovative startups from across the western United States in the semi-finals of the 2018 Global EdTech Startup Awards (GESA), co-sponsored by Digital Promise and GSVlabs, and the Michelson Foundation on November 15. GESA is the largest edtech startup competition in the world.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Those building, funding and using edtech tools must similarly wrestle with these concerns. 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.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tue, 08/06/2019 - 12:12. In most states — 35 of them — manufacturing remains the top industry for workers without a bachelor’s degree , according to the most recent statistics from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Today's CTE Investments Help Boost Students' Success. Andrew.Steger_zKQu. It makes sense.

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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. One factor causing larger deal sizes, but less of them, is that many of the large later-stage deals in the EdTech space would have otherwise likely been IPO candidates in years past.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2019

That also applies to “bootcamp” models of online learning, which made up half of the six edtech graduates. Here’s a glance at the newest players in the edtech industry. He plans to charge employers a fee “in line with the industry.”

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2019

This biannual conference calendar highlights the most popular stops in the higher education world, from the industry-friendly ASU GSV Summit to the practitioner-focused EDUCAUSE and WCET gatherings. Download the 2019-2020 Higher Education Calendar In case you’re wondering… Gold, red, orange, blue: What do these colors mean?

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