The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 17, 2022

Rachelle Dene Poth is an edtech consultant, presenter, attorney, author, and teacher. Rachelle is a blogger for Getting Smart, Defined Learning, District Administration, NEO LMS, and the STEM Informer with Newsweek. Rachelle Dene Poth - Bio As Submitted. We've had her on this show before, and she is awesome.

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Course Strategy Classroom EdTech 352

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 billion by 2020. The company claims users in more than 14,000 U.S. Of that figure, about $12.3

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Learning management system provider Instructure has laid off as many as 100 full-time employees as the publicly traded company nears a key shareholder vote on a proposed sale to a private equity firm. The restructuring primarily affected employees who worked on Instructure’s Bridge product, an LMS tailored to corporate learning.

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Neo LMS

JULY 7, 2020

Read more: Authentic learning and edtech: A match made in heaven. There are daily live-streamed courses being offered by Cosmourse, a London based company. ISTE is offering a Summer Learning Academy with webinars and micro-courses from July 13 – 31, 2020. The courses are available to children between the ages of 3 and 14.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. The company agreed—and made it happen.

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Data LMS Company Education 113

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Edtech, I believe, is going through a similar rebuilding moment powered by three trends: widely available infrastructure, the catalytic impact of spending by both the government and philanthropy in education, and—finally—the embrace of edtech by educational institutions and educators themselves. Not yet convinced? billion in 2010.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 163

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In fact, more than three in four teachers say that job-related stress has taken its toll on them during the 2020-2021 school year. For example, do this directly by donating supplies, funding a GoFundMe page set by a teacher, or by pitching in their Amazon (or any other company) wish list. Donating tech teaching equipment.

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Education Digital Divide Laptops Trends 363

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Instructure’s third quarter performance left some investors beaming, but the company’s long term strategy appears more muddy. For one, the CEO of the learning management system provider didn’t shirk away from a possible sale of its corporate LMS, Bridge, which launched in 2015. The company reported $68.3 million and $258.1

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. Sometimes an LMS discussion will help and other times integrating with another tool can be beneficial. JULY 19, 2020 · 1:26 AM | EDIT. JUNE 28, 2020 · 7:23 PM | EDIT. Thanks so much. Michael Gorman (mjgormans@gmail.com). Leave a comment.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there. He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. Our technology is our ideology,” Siemens says.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, is proud to announce that Savvas Realize has earned a Tech & Learning 2021 Award of Excellence for Best Remote and Blended Learning Tools for grades K-12. Savvas Realize also won a Tech & Learning Award of Excellence in 2020. “We

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Blended Learning LMS Tools Learning 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

during the early months of 2020, we all wondered how—or if—students would continue to learn amid the turbulence. Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies churned out crisis plans for remote instruction in hopes of carrying on, at the very least, until summer break. is in learning management systems (LMS).

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition). If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition). If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? Companies including ProctorU have long offered human test-watchers who sit in call centers and look in on test-takers through their webcams. But the level of outcry is unusual for an edtech product.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Is Google Classroom an LMS? Tens of millions of teachers and students use Google Classroom in thousands of schools around the world, making it one of the most popular edtech tools around. Is Google Classroom an LMS? As Google continues to add features, it's likely that it may start to look, and function, more like an LMS.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As Jones County leaders will tell you, this dynamic, one-stop-shop of connected solutions and professional learning services positioned the district well to face the unique challenges presented by COVID-19 and the 2020-2021 school year. At this point, most people would wrap up the project, but not Mira.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

They’re all business partners of Shorelight Education, a private company founded in 2013 that recruits students from more than 170 countries including China, Colombia and Vietnam to enroll at American colleges whose names may not be widely recognized overseas. The company has applied for a patent for its live remote technology.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. ” The company has raised $16.5 He places former Yale president Richard Levin. ” Contests and Awards.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via Education Week : “The founder and former CEO of an online public school that educates thousands of Pennsylvania students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal tax fraud, acknowledging he siphoned more than $8 million from The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School through for-profit and nonprofit companies he controlled.”

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Education Khan Academy MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via eCampus News : “The 2 edtech fields with the most potential under Trump.” Via GeekWire : “ Amazon Education GM leaves; company says it ‘remains committed’ to K–12 technology.” Offering “modules” in an LMS is, apparently, newsworthy. to 2020, to Reach $1.83

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