Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The hearing will test what critics of the case say was a suit meant to silence concerns about a controversial edtech service. In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. But it hasn’t stopped criticisms.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on August 3, 2020, in Right Strat Online. Regardless of the chosen type of curriculum, how much edtech and distance learning will remain in use? How edtech helps with finding answers. Statistics, best practices, and opinions vary considerably across the world.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2022

It is impossible to exaggerate how much the edtech sector is growing – in fact, exploding might be a better word! The edtech market in the UK is now estimated to be £3.2bn following growth during 2020 of more than 70 percent. This phenomenal growth ensures that the sector is newsworthy, but what are the key trends emerging?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! I’ve adapted this slide of student group roles in breakout rooms by @edutrace. I needed to create some group roles for Zoom Breakout Rooms. Feel free to use pic.twitter.com/NJI8iM8QxX — Esther Park (@MrsParkShine) August 31, 2020. They want to help.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Braced for the next wave of edtech? The most recent player to step into the edtech spotlight is India’s Byju’s. Byju’s growth demonstrates how the edtech market is truly becoming borderless,” says Isabelle Hau, a longtime global impact education funder who is working on a book on early childhood learning. “We It will be big.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

Bearing that in mind, unless you've spent years in classrooms full of students, working against the demands of curriculum mandates, IEP or 504 modifications and state testing requirements, I implore you—each of my colleagues in edtech proffering your solutions to schools—to begin conversations by asking teachers what they need.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

ETS has dabbled in edtech deals before. It’s invested alongside social-impact investment groups like Village Capital. The group also recently made two acquisitions: Pipplet , a Paris-based language assessment service for employers, and Atlanta-based Gradschoolmatch , a company that helps students find graduate programs.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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. It estimates another 4,300 districts could be upgraded in the 2020-21 academic year. That Broadband Gap Bar?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

is the latest Assistive Technology provider to join the Texthelp Group. Following Five Arrows’ investment in December 2020, Texthelp acquired Lingit Group and Wizkids in 2021, expanding the company’s reach in the Nordics and the UK. join the Texthelp Group, and to have Don as an investor and board member.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This 3-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. When we formed the Michigan Virtual Learning Continuity Workgroup in April 2020, we knew these struggles all too well.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Yet this reality seems not to have dampened investor enthusiasm for private edtech companies.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

The study found that some 800,000 students in grades 2-12 who were active in Achieve3000 Literacy from 2020-2021 achieved nearly two times their expected reading gains. Other key findings from the study: Highly engaged learners in specific student population groups attained at least 3X their expected reading growth. and four U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. In 2020, 248 SPACs raised more than $83 billion —more than four times the companies, and six times the funding, over the previous year. He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. edtech startups raised $2.2

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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. Her group has also produced an AI in Education Toolkit for Racial Equity to help companies during their design process.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In the edtech industry, venture capital flows where business grows, and that’s been the case for the San Francisco-based company. The increased usership, made up primarily of parents wanting to supplement their child’s school-based learning, has added up to $54 million in sales so far in 2020, according to Nathoo.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2022

Every moment I inched closer towards the third school year following 2020, it felt as if I had to do something different. Equipped with a set of tech skills gained from pandemic remote learning and the rise of technology in teaching generally, current teachers are making a huge career pivot into edtech or other education organizations.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. It was early in offering programs that highlighted edtech,” says Frank Catalano, an independent industry strategist who previously served on SIIA’s education board. “It

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

No, Edtech Minimalism doesn’t necessitate a complete abandonment of digital technology. As a result, I chose a rather limited number of apps that allowed my students to easily make their learning visible, share their work, and get in contact with me for emotional support, conferences and small-group learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The edtech solutions they invest in must address their most critical and pressing problems. It’s an interesting paradox: edtech has never been so prevalent, and yet the need for high-quality, relevant solutions has never been more dire. This was true regardless of income, educational level, race, or geography.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! I’ve adapted this slide of student group roles in breakout rooms by @edutrace. I needed to create some group roles for Zoom Breakout Rooms. Feel free to use pic.twitter.com/NJI8iM8QxX — Esther Park (@MrsParkShine) August 31, 2020. They want to help.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2022

The profile of learners has also expanded from school and college students of a certain age group to learners of all ages and profiles. EdTech innovation has fuelled these shifts, bringing more flexibility, diversity, and versatility to learning opportunities. What is EdTech? Top EdTech Innovation Trends.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Edtech has always been a fascinating field of study. However, the arrival and rapid spread of the novel coronavirus in late 2019 and early 2020 quickly shoved educational technology into the spotlight. Like any quality tool, finding the greatest use of the plethora of edtech available simply requires learning how to use it correctly.

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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. It’s challenging to cultivate a group dynamic conducive to leading through uncertainty.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2020, users logged over 4.7 But it has doubled down on its online services, which now include small-group classes alongside one-on-one sessions. These figures help add up to $106 million in revenue for 2020—a 16 percent growth over the previous year. These include Adit EdTech Acquisition Corp. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A less frothy but steadily growing edtech market is emerging in Europe, where investment check sizes often have fewer zeros. Case in point: Brighteye Ventures, a Paris-based edtech investment firm, has raised $54 million in the first close for its second fund. Source: Brighteye Ventures: “ The European EdTech Funding Report 2020.”

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

As part of the shift to remote learning in 2020, many schools provided devices such as laptops and tablets to students for the purpose of attending school via the internet. Phones connect to the internet, TVs connect to the internet, and even vacuum cleaners are online today.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Here are some edtech pandemic pivots to watch. Parents, concerned about the risks of sending kids back to school but also seeking child care, are banding together to set up private, small-group classes. The idea is to match family requests with teachers based on geography, age groups, teaching styles and subject expertise.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania, only 30 percent of edtech licenses are actually used. Will edtech be caught up in a backlash against ‘big tech’ over data privacy? Rising edtech expenditures and privacy concerns have caught the eye of regulators. A group of U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

Milton-based EdTech developer and publisher, BoomWriter Media Inc. , (BoomWriter) has merged with education powerhouse Walch Education. With so many start-ups in the EdTech industry there will be inevitable consolidation and lots of elimination of fledgling companies,” adds Chris Twyman, founder of BoomWriter.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on the K-12 edtech predictions educators and experts had for 2021–were they right? 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. What can we take from this when we return to our classrooms? Dan Cavalli, Chief Sales Officer, Flinn Scientific.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students can works in groups to invent a sport. Group students to experiment with designing and testing out their designs for creating kites, paper airplanes, rockets, or ships. Students spend so much time with their digital devices and indoors. Play sports!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Outschool, a marketplace for small-group, live online classes for kids ages 3 to 18, certainly seems to have fallen into the camp of the latter. McNamara’s first attempt at teaching on Outschool, in August 2020, was less than a hit. We have more revenue booked in 2021 than we did in 2020. Few students showed up.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on July 2, 2020, in Open Access Government. Creating an effective edtech strategy for when schools reopen. Education technology — or edtech — is nothing new. Edtech can massively reduce a school’s administrative strain through various systems and automated processes.

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Neo LMS

JULY 7, 2020

Read more: Authentic learning and edtech: A match made in heaven. Lessonface provides access to music instructors and students can choose between group classes or taking a live 1:1 lesson. Lessonface also has a Group Online (GO) class format that includes the group classes that are offered weekly.

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