Perry Hewitt

APRIL 26, 2020

It’s both hard and easy to believe that the sentiment “Digital will become the core” still attracts a lot of attention in 2020. But it’s easy to believe when we experience interactions with enterprise companies that are mired in literal paperwork and cumbersome processes that clearly require a digital rethink.

Industry 205

Industry Company Software Online Learning 205

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. Analyzing data from Burning Glass , Wharton professor Matthew Bidwel found a diminishing number of entry-level jobs requiring a degree.

Training 187

Training Company E-rate Software 187

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The broader post-secondary landscape, including higher education and workforce development, has also quickly embraced online learning and up-skilling opportunities to better engage students and employees remotely. By 2015, technology had become an integral facet of learning , with devices ubiquitously present in students' hands.

EdTech 116

EdTech Outcomes Data Education 116

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. And “non-traditional” students appear more okay with remote online learning than their “traditional” peers. It then compared annual growth from fall 2019 to fall 2020 to average annual fall-to-fall growth rates in previous years.

Report 181

Report Khan Academy Survey Comparison 181

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 25, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. Free Distance Learning Resources. In addition, parents can sign up for their own free account if they are interested.

STEM 370

STEM Resources Learning Software 370

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million.

Digital Divide 217

Digital Divide Broadband Report Accessibility 217

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

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. Oftentimes tech companies didn’t really seem to understand the experience of Black and Brown students in the classroom,” Hebbar said.

EdTech 116

EdTech Company Data Software 116

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA). At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data.

E-rate 123

E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

And with that comes a name change, as its offerings now extend beyond operating online schools for K-12 districts, which has long been its flagship business. based company agreed to acquire Tech Elevator, which offers coding bootcamp online and across eight cities, in a $23.5 Earlier this week, the Herndon, Va.-based

Company 112

Company Industry Software Training 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Math is cumulative,” Joel Rose, the chief executive officer of New Classrooms, a nonprofit company that sells math software to schools, once told me. You just can’t learn linear equations if you don’t know how to multiply.”. The company borrowed a page from corporate America. Alves puts 21 papers in 7 piles.

Education 124

Education Software Data Company 124

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 13, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. Free Distance Learning Resources. In addition, parents can sign up for their own free account if they are interested.

STEM 195

STEM Resources Learning Software 195

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. It offers fewer courses than Coursera—in 2020, edX listed 3,090 courses and Coursera about 4,600.

Coursera 167

Coursera MOOC Company Course 167

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In early 2020, the Department of Education, in collaboration with several other federal agencies, launched CTE CyberNet, an intensive professional development program for K-12 educators that would meet in person over the summer. During the pandemic, schools saw an increase in cyber threats and data breaches.

Training 121

Training Report Company Data 121

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. But the New York-based company had already served 45 million students in more than 190 countries before the pandemic hit. “We A sample project in Codecademy.

Chegg 149

Chegg Company EdTech Education 149

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Yoni Lotan performs as his captain character for a remote birthday party produced by Camp, in his apartment in Brooklyn on March 26, 2020. A Brooklyn-based company called Crazy Science Show that once performed in schools has launched $10-per-family birthday parties with scientific demonstrations that teach basic concepts like pressure.

Online Learning 57

Online Learning Learning Study Video 57

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. So what else is next for the Salt Lake City-based edtech company? The company is also on the search for a new CFO.

LMS 96

LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 96

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2022

SmarterServices recently published data that reveals both individual and technical skills have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the degree to which learner readiness has changed over the past ten years. Data on how COVID-19 has impacted learner readiness comes out of the National Readiness Report , published by SmarterServices.

Report 52

Report Comparison Data Online Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor, California Community Colleges. Nor does it keep tabs on what happens to a student in debt.

Dropout 102

Dropout Policies Data Report 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Even as doors reopened to brick-and-mortar schools, administrators here saw the continued need for a virtual option in response to lingering concerns about Covid and to feedback from some parents that their children had thrived in online learning. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom.

Elementary 92

Elementary Online Learning Report Personalized Learning 92

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The GoGuardian Research and Insights team today announced its comprehensive findings on the factors that create an engaging learning experience in K-12 schools, both online and in-person, in its 2020 State of Engagement Report. Creating an empowering and future-focused learning space. About GoGuardian.

Student Engagement 94

Student Engagement Advocacy Outcomes Report 94

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Since 2015, Owl has invested in 39 edtech companies. About 27 million people are currently claiming unemployment benefits, according to data from the U.S. Companies offering consumer-facing and corporate-training products accounted for many of the biggest fundraising deals in the first half of this year. Department of Labor.

EdTech 114

EdTech Company Training Survey 114

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

They just weren’t ready for distance learning, and a big part of that was that too many students lacked adequate WiFi access to get to virtual class. Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. Still, no new regulations have yet emerged from that data gathering. For instance, prior to COVID-19, Section 12100.8 Jennifer E.

Broadband 142

Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 142

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

One December 2021 analysis by consulting firm McKinsey & Company noted that students in majority Black schools are five months behind where they usually are in both math and reading while students in majority white schools are now just two months behind where they have been historically. Math, in particular, and early literacy.”.

Study 124

Study Assessment Data Elementary 124

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.”

Study 138

Study Data Report Elementary 138

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled. million from 2012 to 2019.

Course 181

Course Trends EdTech Laptops 181

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2020

The more I saw people struggle with online learning, it convinced me this work is more important now than it ever was." Ryan Bravin, 2020 corps member in Eastern North Carolina “If anything I think I was more committed to joining,” Bravin says. “A Instead, he became more resolute about its mission.

Training 139

Training Blackboard Video Online Learning 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They suggest that online higher education may work better than pre-pandemic research showed, and that it is evolving decisively toward a combination of in-person and online, or “blended,” classes. A student walks through a mostly empty college campus in Irvine, California, in October 2020.

Education 77

Education Survey Dropout Learning 77

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. That meant using online learning to serve people who would otherwise have no access to higher education.

Education 111

Education Outcomes Online Learning System 111

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Designed to inspire people to take education into their own hands, LenovoEDU is an online community that offers support and resources for college and career students, parents and guardians of K-12 students, and educators around the globe to optimize learning opportunities with a “self-serve” and “build your own curriculum” mindset.

Udemy 58

Udemy Lenovo Education Learning Analytics 58

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. Almost a year later, in February 2021, the results are in: a mere three online learning technologies have clear evidence for improving student achievement. The third is an online algebra course for eighth graders.

Study 133

Study Software Learning Analysis 133

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

A January 2020 report by the firm estimated that between 20 and 40 percent of the 50 hours that a typical teacher currently works a week could be saved through existing automation technology, often enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co., “It’s a hard challenge,” he said.

Software 145

Software Differentiated Instruction Report Study 145

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic. The data on this is clear. They need to be able to identify sources and find corroborating information.

EdTech 145

EdTech Digital Divide Learning Social Media 145

eSchool News

JULY 7, 2020

“This sale and ongoing partnership will allow us to continue delivering aligned professional learning content through our analytics platform, benefit from improvements that will be made by Infobase, and have greater flexibility to focus more efforts and innovation on data management and analytics.”

Training 86

Training Libraries Professional Learning Assessment 86

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

EdTech 145

EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. This story also appeared in The Nevada Independent. In early February, things appeared to be going well.

Khan Academy 134

Khan Academy Classroom Training Software 134

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

." Tagged on: July 23, 2017 Education Division Strategic Plan | National Governors Association → NGA's Education Division has a new strategic plan (2017-2020), which includes a focus on personalized learning. Windows IT Pro → For most organizations, data breaches are foreign territory.

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

As 2020 kicked off, the U.S. It’s important to recognize that this crisis will likely only accelerate the march of automation and the adoption of various labor-replacing technologies, including machine learning and AI. job market was the strongest in 50 years , and the economy had seen a record 113-month streak of job creation.

Coursera 114

Coursera Training MOOC Course 114