eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global education technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has agreed to acquire DreamBox Learning® , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 16, 2021

The global pandemic has changed the education experience as we continue to live in an extraordinary age of mass school closures and distance learning. It is no surprise then to discover that venture capital investment in education technology increased by 50 percent – from $7 billion to $16.1 billion – from 2019 to 2020.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 30, 2015

Frank Smith The influence of 3D printing, adaptive learning technologies and wearable technologies in the classroom is growing.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

How do you capture what it feels like when a pandemic forces educators to suddenly try new teaching approaches to keep learning going while staying safe? Some weeks we talked to well-known thinkers, including bestselling author Dave Eggers , YouTube education star and novelist John Green and math software pioneer Conrad Wolfram.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today released new research titled “Using Lexia Core5 Reading to Address Learning Loss and Accelerate Learning: Insights from a 2020-21 Nationwide Study.” About Cambium Learning Group. BOSTON ( Sept.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 18, 2020

A version of this post was origianlly published on April 14, 2020, on FE News. Poor student data management makes it harder for educators to form a complete picture of each student’s learning progress and provide timely and personalized recommendations to boost student achievement. Secure learning environment.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A version of this post was originally published on December 3rd, 2020, in Education IT Reporter. Worldwide, schools and universities are now, like never before, dealing with a large-scale disruption in education. 3 Ways in which edtech enables hybrid learning. Adaptive learning. Offline access.

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Neo LMS

JULY 21, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on February 4, 2020, in Open Access Government. Teachers everywhere point to high levels of stress, long working hours, unclear expectations, and not enough support as the main issues behind their decision to part ways with the education system. Adaptive learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

April 6, 2022 — DreamBox Learning , Inc. Educators can then use this roadmap to talk through students’ thought processes and problem-solving strategies, while watching the playback side-by-side. Nidamarthi, Chief Product Officer at DreamBox Learning. DreamBox Innovation Proven to Accelerate Student Learning. easy to use?and

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Discovery Education this month acquired DreamBox Learning , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide. Carnegie Learning has one of the largest teams of certified teachers as tutors in the nation, partnering with school districts across the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Instead, we should see it for what it is: the early days of Amazon’s foray into public education. I do not think public education leaders will have much of a choice in whether or not to answer when Amazon comes to knock and deliver. Before the 2020 pandemic, relatively few students attended hybrid, or fully virtual, schools.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2021

This post was originally published in eSchool News , on December 14, 2020. In particular, students and educators saw their usual routine completely turned upside down. They were unprepared for the vast impact the virus would have on how students learn and education settings operate.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 18, 2020

A version of this post was origianlly published on April 14, 2020, on FE News. Poor student data management makes it harder for educators to form a complete picture of each student’s learning progress and provide timely and personalized recommendations to boost student achievement. Secure learning environment.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

BOSTON (June 8, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that Florida’s Commissioner of Education has approved Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) as curriculum in elementary intervention courses. K-12 English language arts materials were the focus of the 2020-2021 year. About Lexia Learning.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on July 2, 2020, in Open Access Government. In the context of the pandemic, many schools and universities turned to virtual learning environments as the only way of ensuring some continuity of education during these times of crisis. It was meant to support it.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

An AI that can write a lesson plan might be better seen not as a threat to what an educator can create, but instead be an "inspiration stimulant" that serves to improve what a final lesson plan might be. Revolutionizing education is neither wise nor feasible. I imagined such a day was far, far into the future.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2020

To help educators support emerging readers at home, multisensory phonics system Square Panda is offering a complimentary site license through 7/31/2020 and free Home Edition Playsets, valued at $49.95, for participating families (while supplies last). SquareLand adaptive learning app and SquareTales digital books.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 30, 2020

As the world grapples with the global COVID-19 pandemic, education is one of the hardest-hit sectors. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO, 2020 ) a total of 1.6 It has advised learners and educators to use its online learning platform.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

For most of its years as a startup, Knewton focused on building adaptive learning technologies that it would license to publishers, before pivoting to sell its own courseware in late 2017. Kibby was previously an executive at McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson. For fiscal Q1 2020, ending July 31, 2019, Wiley reported $423.5

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

While formal education in several parts of the world is still associated with the widely-accepted traditional brick and mortar schools, the global education fraternity has opened up to e-learning. E-learning equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) has an immense potential to revolutionize education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

million students and over 620,000 educators across more than 23,000 schools nationwide. Back then, leveraging technology for explicit, systematic, and personalized instruction was a novel concept for schools and educators. Among those strategic milestones was first joining with language learning system creator Rosetta Stone Inc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

But we’re hoping teams of educators and entrepreneurs with bold ideas in education will step away from their vacations to seize a great opportunity from NewSchools Venture Fund. A venture philanthropy, NewSchools raises funds from donors and reinvests them in people who want to reimagine learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment. There is growing acknowledgement and new evidence that this situation is worsening equity gaps in the job market and within higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

We are so pleased that enVision Mathematics has won this prestigious award,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company. Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes. Well done!”. “As

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% For students who may not have access to these tools and are near an Ancora Education partner school, access to computer labs is available at no charge.

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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. Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In the past, experts have made big projections for the global edtech market, with some groups estimating as much as $252 billion pouring into the market by 2020. We are using iPads for our fourth to ninth grade students, and we are looking for apps and websites for our students to learn [on the devices with],” says Najera.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. “ The Absurdity of Armed Educators ” by Vann R. Newkirk II in The Atlantic.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

When it comes to the business of education, the teenage years of this century are going out with a bang. And topping the charts is a story about educators marshalling forces against a telecoms giant. Over the following days, we’ll be sharing the top stories of the year in K-12 and higher education readers.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 18, 2020

The Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) recently published a rigorous study that found students who play ST Math have higher mathematics self-beliefs than non-ST Math students. Rutherford et al, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019. Can a game change how you feel about math?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). ST Unitas , South Korea’s largest education business, acquired Princeton Review , the iconic U.S. Yet education ministries across Asia recognize they need more than test-takers; they need students who can ideate, create and compete in a global economy. Last month. Authess $2.2

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we close the door on 2022 , we approach 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

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