eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010. 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.

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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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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2022

EdTech innovation has fuelled these shifts, bringing more flexibility, diversity, and versatility to learning opportunities. To this end, this blog explores the latest trends in EdTech innovation and its benefits for today’s learners. . What is EdTech? Top EdTech Innovation Trends. billion industry in 2022 to $232.9

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Renaissance displayed its literacy solutions.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Computer science has taken a priority slot for K–12 teachers , as experts forecast a majority of jobs will incorporate some kind of coding skills or computational thinking by as early as 2020. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Find out what professional development your teachers need to run a successful makerspace ! “One

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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

JANUARY 25, 2019

Already, one New York-based edtech company has raised $100 million. Companies like DreamBox have worked for years with researchers at Harvard and SRI to evaluate its program. Department of Education has been embarking on a listening tour to help educators make sense of edtech research. based companies.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. Chile has more mobile cellular subscriptions (127 per 100 people) than the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. million credentials to date, growing at a 61 percent pace from 2019 to 2020. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Instead of company founders presenting to crowds at a venue in the San Francisco Bay Area, they provided one-slide presentations, a company description and biographies of employees for a Y Combinator website. Here’s a look at some of the education-related companies “presenting” among the 197 companies in YC’s winter 2020 batch.

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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

MARCH 6, 2018

edtech venture firms as limited partners. In the coming months, EduLab Ventures, a group with roots in Japan, will wrap up the fundraising process for a new edtech fund that could bring up to $40 million to invest in early-stage deals. But now, the company feels confident to invest on its own. “We edtech startups in 2017.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 17, 2022

Rachelle Dene Poth is an edtech consultant, presenter, attorney, author, and teacher. She serves as the past president of the ISTE Teacher Education Network and serves on the Leadership team of the Mobile Learning Network. Rachelle Dene Poth - Bio As Submitted. She is a Consultant and Speaker, owner of ThriveinEDU LLC Consulting.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It’s a big deal for a startup that was founded in 2011 on the bet that as internet connectivity and mobile devices became more affordable and accessible in classrooms, teachers and students would need a way to create and share digital content and resources. In 2020, an estimated 19.5 The company has changed hands several times.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company began 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. San Francisco based Owl Ventures is the largest edtech sector-focused venture capital firm in the world. In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

Pause a second and think about companies such as Uber and Airbnb. respectively by 2020. Access to mobile devices that connect learners and educators to the vast resources of the Internet and facilitate communication and collaboration. Where would many of us be without these or similar apps today? Powerful learning devices.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. Some observers predict that mobile learning will be the principal mode in Africa in this decade.

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2023

Sarah received $5,000 for the project Spark Care+: Personalized Music Therapy App using a Mobile and AI that provides accessible and affordable music therapy for emotional wellbeing. Samvrit Rao is a 15-year-old from Virginia and a 2020 finalist. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

The graph above, depicting federal data shrewdly reshuffled by edtech trend-spotter Phil Hill, reveals a steady on-campus decay while online races ahead. Some, troubled by inferior OPM service, have parted company with their partners and are now on their own, often having learned a thing or two. million from 2012 to 2019.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2018

That’s how much the Landham, Maryland-based company raised through its latest public offering of common stock this week. He’s referring to the South Africa-based company that works with universities to build short online courses, which 2U purchased for $103 million in May 2017. It posted $92.3 Still, 2U wants more cash.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

With extensive experience in finance and operations, Naseath, CPA, CFE and CISA, will further Osmo’s global growth, creating operational excellence across the company and scaling the company’s vision of making a broader impact to education. . Masters in Information Systems Management) and a B.S. About Osmo from BYJU’S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Another bootcamp has been gobbled up by an education technology company looking to break into the corporate learning and career readiness market. During the earnings call, K12 executives estimated about $50 million in revenue from Galvanize in 2020, putting the sales price at about 3.3 times that. You can count them on one hand.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

But a recent investment from one of the biggest names in the entertainment business is valuing the company in the hundreds of millions. TechCrunch reports that the deal gives the company a $376 million valuation. That may seem like a lofty figure for a company expecting to make $2 million in revenue this year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In late April, more than a month into COVID-induced school closures, Matt Goodwin, senior director of product management at Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, explained how the pandemic was upending his company’s development process. “We Learn more about this EdSurge Research project.)

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. In 2016 the company reported a $3.3 A lot of money that perhaps we used to spend acquiring companies, we are now investing organically.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

It is a great tool for content creators and companies to produce content and distribute it to a target audience. . As your company grows, authoring tools help it scale better and keep up with increasing content and communication requirements. . Digital Publishing / February 4, 2020. Summing Up. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 29, 2022

As education goes online driven by the evolution in digital technologies and the COVID 19 pandemic, several companies are wooing the learners, academic institutions, and corporate houses with powerful tools to conduct online and blended learning programs. Digital Publishing / October 16, 2020. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

The budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year requested an approximate $7.1 Companies like Chegg, eFollett, and BookRenter are offering new textbooks on rent for less than the price of a used book. Today, a lot of companies offer subscription-based services. Introduce eLearning Apps: Mobile apps have seen a surge in recent years.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech. Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

employers don’t view such retraining as their responsibility–and there is evidence that many employers are, contrary to the conventional wisdom, unfortunately disinvesting in professional development in an age of diminishing employee and corporate loyalty, greater mobility and gig work.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The market for such textbooks is on the rise as publishing companies are spending increasing amounts on developing them. Discover How An Ebook Conversion, Publishing & Distribution Platform Can Help You Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish & securely distribute interactive mobile-ready ebooks.

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Doug Levin

JULY 31, 2017

As such, expect an abbreviated (TBD) publishing schedule for ‘A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News’ in August. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 30 Edition). This is an area where it would improve the job of edtech developers if we said, 'Here’s what you’re allowed to gather and share.'

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

After all, companies look for appropriate technical skills while hiring employees, but they also filter candidates based on skills like emotional capacity and social adjustment quotients. . Digital Publishing / December 23, 2020. Why is Social-Emotional Learning an Indispensable Fraction of Education in 2022? REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 30, 2022

One way to address this is to partner with digital publishing companies or third-party service providers who can help in the digital content transformation. Digital Publishing / November 2, 2020. Then again, even if you do research and identify the technology to use, you need technical expertise to implement it. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2022

But in 2020, the program requested $9 million more to rollout a teacher training campaign. A Major Problem It is notable that even in 2020 the World Bank introduced targeted teacher support only after a key indicator declined. This also cropped up in our interviews with Chinese teachers in early 2020 about the shift to remote learning.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by the year 2020, there will be one million more computer science jobs than graduates prepared for these jobs. Keep in mind–most of these curriculums are tied in with the tools of the companies that created them!). Computer science is a primary driver of the U.S. Code.org Curriculum.

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