eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

Enter the education technology (edtech) boom since 2020 and the very ideology around teaching and learning has been revolutionized. Edtech has completely redefined how knowledge is imparted and how skills are acquired. For centuries, education has been confined to the walls of schools, colleges, and institutions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Students who expressed confidence in their ability to learn and adapt to new edtech were more likely to also feel they were learning effectively online, that edtech enhanced their learning, and to want more online learning options. The network is a project of WGU Labs, an affiliate of Western Governors University.

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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. What are the projections for edtech? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2020

As we inch toward summer, no one quite knows what’s going to happen during the 2020-2021 school year. For companies that target teachers, this is a good time to do some contingency planning as well—to be ready to assist educators no matter what scenario they find themselves in come fall.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Arkansas’ LISA Academy public charter school district today announced the renewal of its partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Mystery Science. Discovery, Inc.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Now, we know that edtech has been proven to improve test scores and overall classroom engagement. But, how does the 2010 vision for edTech match what’s actually happening today? The cost, plus it’s easy manageability and durability, made Chromebooks a main player in the edtech game. 7 YEARS LATER… 1. Indeed, $2.3

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Here are some edtech pandemic pivots to watch.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. A less frothy but steadily growing edtech market is emerging in Europe, where investment check sizes often have fewer zeros. It proves that there is appetite among investors for helping education companies serving the European market.”

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

In July 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SXSW EDU issued a challenge to the edtech world: Design an Alexa skill to transform education. We’ve been amazed by the creativity and impact of the ideas that education technology companies submitted for this challenge! Audrey Bierly, AWS Developers across the U.S.

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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.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. We enjoyed one another’s company, and each meeting felt both cathartic and productive.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

Also feeling the ripple effect are the companies and organizations that provide tools and services to students and educators. Loans are forgiven provided that recipients meet criteria that include using at least 60 percent of the amount to keep their staff while maintaining at least 75 percent of their current salaries.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 12, 2020

General EdTech: EdTech companies offering FREE support and/or access to schools affected by COVID19 closures. A growing collection of edtech companies that are offering free access or support to schools affected by COVID-19. Prepare for when classes can’t meet from the IT department at the University of Washington.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Now, with the widespread cancellation of schools and conferences (where investors and entrepreneurs often meet), edtech investors are advising startups to heed Sequoia’s advice. Companies should be thinking about their cash runway, watching their burn and making sure they are comfortable with where they are at right now,” says Carolan.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Millions downloaded it—and first learned of it—back in early 2020, when lockdowns forced billions of students online, and at least 100,000 schools onto Zoom. But as the company itself will tell you, it didn’t spring up overnight. In the future, there may be many such companies piggybacking off Zoom’s popularity.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

We would like to thank the American Business Awards for honoring Experience Chemistry as an exceptional science learning solution,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company. The best way for students to learn is through a fun and interactive environment, which is what [Savvas Learning Company] set out to do.”

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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. The classes will meet Monday through Friday and are open to students from around the world, which is a great way to build collaborative skills and global awareness for our students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. Between May and June of 2020, our students had collectively read 77,000 minutes on the Amira platform. “Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. What are the projections for edtech? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

During TCEA 2020, educators, decision-makers, and stakeholders came together to articulate their visions for the future of education. Related content: Can’t-miss sessions at TCEA 2020. Related content: Can’t-miss sessions at TCEA 2020. Here’s a sampling of some of our favorite products from TCEA 2020.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

They’re abbreviations for major conferences for companies in the education industry. That was early in the days of low-cost cloud computing enabling a multitude of new edtech startups, really fast internet beginning its spread to schools, and Chromebooks starting their climb to ascendance in U.S. K-12 classrooms as a 1:1 mobile device.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

As it turns out, the company wasn’t done fundraising. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year. edtech companies raised over $800 million in the first half of 2020. The company has only purchased one company—Cardinal Scholars—to date.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

If it seems baffling that companies with no revenue can raise money from private investors ( ahem , as some edtech startups did in the early 2010’s), then EdTechX Holdings might just sound outright crazy at first. EdTechX Holdings is a “special purpose acquisition company,” or SPAC for short.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I love their courses because they are flexible, with up to 6 months to complete, and you can receive graduate credit through CAEP and regionally accredited university partners or continuing education units that meet your state requirements. Leave your thoughts in the comment or tweet me on Twitter @ coolcatteacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Every time I try to leave it, I end up back in January 2023, it was acquired by a company called Bending Spoons, a very reputable software company out of Europe. They have over 100 mil users on all their apps, so they did just release in January 2020 for a new interface. I also put it on my meeting. They fixed search.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

JRCS, which was recognized as a 2020 National Blue Ribbon School, seeks to determine the Bamboo Learning EDU solution’s impact on reading achievement, speaking fluency, vocabulary acquisition, and content knowledge-building among its economically and racially diverse student body. SEATTLE—March 7, 2022— Bamboo Learning, Inc.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

That can prove tedious and inefficient—especially with most districts now running more than 500 edtech products per month. A screenshot of Check the Privacy's searchable library of more than 7,000 edtech products. It will be ready before the start of the 2019-2020 school year, Rectanus says.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2023

The renewal of this partnership ensures students and teachers in the district’s K-5 classrooms will continue to use the company’s award-winning Mystery Science service to explore the natural world and more deeply engage in science instruction. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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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. Then the pandemic hit. During the pandemic, schools saw an increase in cyber threats and data breaches.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Today, Mystery Science continues to fulfill that mission as it helps district students develop into complex, creative thinkers. Discovery, Inc.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. AMSD serves 2,800 K-12 students in a rural community located in the northwest corner of New Mexico within the “Four Corners region” where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona meet.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. One of the benefits of this change is a focus on long-term planning over displays of quarterly growth to impress shareholders, says Mitch Benson, the company’s chief product officer. To meet the expectation of demands is priority,” Benson says. “I

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Since the company’s founding by Vaid and her husband Sohit Wadhwa a decade ago, ParentSquare has become the premier unified school-home engagement platform for K-12 education. The Santa Barbara-based company now serves almost half of all schools in California and has expanded to 44 states. About ParentSquare.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on the same day, and the CCPA is set to become effective on January 1, 2020. This is a game-changing law that will impact companies in the U.S. The law will apply to any company doing business in the Golden State, even if physically located elsewhere. and globally, and moves the U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

Less than a third of high school juniors and seniors reported that they felt prepared to compare financial institutions and select one that best meets their needs (32 percent). EVERFI collected anonymous survey responses from students who participated in one of three EVERFI financial education courses during the 2020-2021 school year.

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