Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. billion, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2019. It’s one of the biggest sales in the industry in this decade, surpassing LinkedIn’s $1.5 billion in 2015. “My

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Many of the jobs were in the retail and restaurant industries, which typically afford flexible hours to students but have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic closures. The need to work in order to provide for oneself and to pay school tuition is exacerbated by rising costs of living, stagnant wages —and school debt.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Online learning—often touted as an up-and-coming way of delivering education—took its place on the world stage as the de facto model, regardless of how prepared students, employees and educators were for the experience. Transitional solutions that help people shift from one industry to another. have reached nearly 46 million.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Synchrony also offers virtual summer activities and online learning for the children of employees, flexibility in hours and the opportunity to work from home. Virtual summer camp was also born out of pandemic, created in response to summer camp and child care center closures, Hu adds.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As if to double down on that effort, the company also struck a deal this week to acquire MedCerts, a provider of workforce development and training for the healthcare industry, for $70 million in cash. Coding bootcamps cater to adult learners, a market that K12 officials say it has been aspiring to serve.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses. This move to online learning is here to stay. We’ll never rubber-band back to the old days.”. And that is not going to happen.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

But not all sectors of the market follow that rule, says Jeff Silber, a managing director at BMO Capital Markets who follows the education industry. Fueling that growth is Chegg Services, which brought in just over $100 million in revenue last quarter, a 33 percent increase over Q1 2019. million, up 14 percent of Q1 2019.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Based on real-life applications and digital tools, lessons in Essential Skills for Remote Learning guide students through technical concepts in a fun, game-based environment. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S. school districts and serves more than 4 million students each year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

Also driving that growth is Coursera for Campus, which the company launched in late 2019 to let colleges offer its library of online courses to their students. More than half (51 percent) of its revenue came from outside the U.S. Shortly after the outbreak, Coursera made this available for free to higher-ed institutions until Sept.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 16, 2019

Connections Academy is a different online school with a similar set up as K12 and would be worth looking into as well. Pearson Online. It’s no surprise that this pillar in the textbook and curriculum industry loves on-boarding talent with education backgrounds. Online Businesses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

But the course won’t be offered through a university, like many of the other online classes on Coursera. Instead it will be offered by Deeplearning.ai , an online learning company founded by none other than Ng himself. (He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Starting with a $100 million fund in 2015, Owl has since raised two subsequent funds— $185 million in 2017, and $315 million in 2019. They’re going to have some opinion about the quality of the curriculum, and it’s going to be hard for parents to accept the learning and social-emotional gaps that exist.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 16, 2020

Whatever reason you may have for turning towards the virtual realm of education, you can’t deny that online learning has become the norm. Research and Markets predicts that by 2026, the worldwide online learning sector will hit $336.98 Pre-K Learning: Enhancing Education with Digital Technology.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 8, 2019

Cybersecurity threats, aging IT systems, increased demand for online learning and classroom technology, and difficulty attracting and retaining IT talent are putting pressure on many colleges, not just WCC. — Harold Hale (@hhale63) July 8, 2019. — Susan Scranton (@SusanScranton) July 8, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Related: Could the online for-profit college industry be a ‘winner in this crisis’? As parents fearful of coronavirus’s spread and frustrated with their schools’ forays into remote learning seek other options, they are increasingly turning to virtual for-profit charter schools like the one Nemergut chose. Stride Inc.,

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techlearning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Michalowski continued, “We hope to add industry credentialing to our CS courses over time and we want to be a strong part of the computer science career pipeline.” This year, The Virtual High School will develop and launch a new 15-week online cybersecurity course for delivery in the 2019-2020 academic year.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Collective Learning with Social Features. Online learning has ensured that learning is not confined to classrooms. It also ensured that learning is not an isolated experience. Whitepaper: Can the Education Publishing Industry Leverage A Subscription Model. Education Technology / July 2, 2019.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

There is a heightened focus on remote learning and online classes. While online learning brings many benefits to students and teachers alike, it also comes with higher cybersecurity threats. Digital Publishing / November 28, 2019. Increasing digitization has changed the way educational institutions run today.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2022

For instance, physical textbooks have been replaced by online learning modules. Classroom-style lectures have given way to self-learning. billion industry in 2022 to $232.9 Learn Anytime from Anywhere . Digital Publishing / May 16, 2019. billion at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2%. .

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The number of undergraduates dropped by nearly 4 percent in the fall compared to the fall of 2019, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, because of families’ financial circumstances, dissatisfaction with online learning and other reasons. Fifteen U.S. Only 26 percent of working U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Saeed Shareef badly wanted to get out of the restaurant industry. In a way, that’s not surprising, given concerns about the safety of in-person instruction, the quality of online learning and the lack of clarity around whether jobs will recover from the economic crisis, and if so, which ones. This story also appeared in Wired.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 8, 2019

Cybersecurity threats, aging IT systems, increased demand for online learning and classroom technology, and difficulty attracting and retaining IT talent are putting pressure on many colleges, not just WCC. — Harold Hale (@hhale63) July 8, 2019. — Susan Scranton (@SusanScranton) July 8, 2019.

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Trends Laptops Technology Industry 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The speakers included Dhawal Shah, founder of Class Central, Amy Ahearn, associate director at Acumen+, Kapeesh Saraf, head of growth and consumer products at Coursera, and Kristin Palmer, director of online learning at University of Virginia. I think we'll see more of this in this 2019 too. Isn't that a failure?”

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

link] Predictions are 1/2 of higher Ed will be online in the next 10 years. K-12 will follow by 2019. How do we assess quality with all of the online education providers that are out there? Adult learners adding to skill sets or learning about hobbies. Students like the on demand aspects of the learning.

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Udemy Education MOOC Survey 49

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Having to shift to online learning because of the pandemic “has definitely affected our motivation,” said Emmanuella Agyemang, a 16-year-old junior at University Heights High School in the Bronx who plans to go to college and wants to be a journalist. Yet only 13 percent of city residents have bachelor’s degrees or higher.

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ExcelinEd

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Back in 2019, support for new and different school options grew by 4 percent from 2018. Since the 1990s we’ve seen public education evolve further with the advent of online learning, public charter schools and industry-led college and career pathways. 2020 seems to be quickening the pace.

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Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

Now, I will confess here, my academic background is in folklore and literature, so when I hear the word "futurists," what comes to mind first are the Italian Futurists, proto-fascists many of them, who rejected the past and who embraced speed, industry, and violence. "I don't even know why we study history.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Chatterbox is an online language school that employs the latent talent of professionals, who also happen to be refugees. They train and employ displaced people to teach their native languages in the booming online and in-person language learning industry. The data on learning will be collected in March, 2019.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

million Series A that will expand its range of intensive executive-level courses and digital learning tools. Our vision is to be the premier digital learning company for working professionals,” said co-founder and CEO, David Shrier. Esme was founded on Valentines Day, 2019, by Shrier and Beth Porter, co-founder and managing partner.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Another tutoring researcher, Philip Oreopoulos at the University of Toronto, is studying whether once-a-week Zoom tutoring sessions at home are sufficient for some students when combined with practice problems from Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization that provides free online learning. It was remarkable,” Bhatt said.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Fueled by an influx of new immigrants, the emerging technology industry, and upskilling opportunities from local educational institutions, Nashville’s economy was booming. Service industries like restaurants, hospitality, and skilled construction offered rewarding job opportunities for residents. food, unemployment, housing).

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Neo LMS

APRIL 30, 2020

In the Philippines, the Department of Education (DepEd) has not made a final decision whether to end the school year 2019-2020 or not. It has advised learners and educators to use its online learning platform. Read more: Adopting the asynchronous mindset for better online learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

She worked various jobs in the service industry until 2013, when Mendez suffered a work-related injury that left her with a physical disability. In 2019, Mendez met a mother at her youngest daughter’s school who needed full-time child care for her 3-year-old daughter and after-school care for her 6-year-old daughter.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Regardless of the experiences and interactions that led these educators to the field, each entered their first year of teaching—the 2019-20 school year—filled with excitement, eagerness and anxiety. And that all changed when online learning started. The first day of school, I was very nervous.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

Wright’s district created a parent university that provided opportunities for parents to understand what their children would be experiencing and how they could support learning at home. Personalization and digital collaborative environments identified in the fall of 2019 have accelerated due to the pandemic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex Seage built a career leading technology and innovation in the cruise industry, which also provided him with a deep understanding of the technology needed to improve the experience for cruise guests. In the fall of 2019, HCISD launched a universal full-day pre-K program for 4-year-old children at no cost to families. Therefore, Ms.

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