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US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online

Edsurge

“With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. In the first half of 2020, U.S. In the U.S.,

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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020

Neo LMS

Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020. Edtech is developing at incredible rates, so educators need to be on a constant lookout for the current developments in order to create better learning environments for their students. Here are a few e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020: Video learning. Wrapping up.

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Research to Impact: Four Steps to Build a Successful Edtech Enterprise

Edsurge

After the pandemic, the edtech market exploded with new products and services, and investment flowed freely. When schools shuttered in the spring of 2020, more than 1 billion students worldwide shifted to online instruction in less than one month. Global edtech funding plummeted 49 percent from 2021 to 2022, falling to $10.6

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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

Edsurge

All in this Edtech Reports Recap. But there’s still a ways to go to hit the FCC’s “longer-term” target of 1 Mbps, which was to kick in by now, for taking advantage of bandwidth-hungry edtech apps. In a new analysis , it finds that 47 percent of U.S. “Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising.

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Tips, Tools and Resources for Awesome Student Video Projects

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Produce a TV Commercial for an Invention Student Project: Problem Solution Videos DIY Video Lesson to Illustrate Process Analysis Broadcast the News Animated Character Videos Screencast Video Tools Go On Incredibly Fun Learning Adventures With These 10+ Amazing Green Screen Ideas!

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project.

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Learning Loss Is Everywhere. But How Do the Reports Compare?

Edsurge

As some schools reopen, edtech product use declines. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. It then compared annual growth from fall 2019 to fall 2020 to average annual fall-to-fall growth rates in previous years. schools who took NWEA’s MAP Growth in fall 2020, with a comparison of the results to fall 2019.

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