Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Internet provides college students with a wealth of educational materials to support them on their learning journey. However, finding quality resources to complete challenging assignments is a time-consuming task, which is why you should seek online assistance that not only saves you time but also adds value to your learning experience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 One of the other giants of the study-aid world, Chegg, has also come under criticism by professors. You don’t hear people talk about learning, you hear them talking about grades,” she said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

By mid-March, schools closed, sending students home to figure out how to keep learning from their kitchen tables. Never before have schools and colleges so urgently needed digital tools and services to facilitate remote learning—and been less able to afford them. The pandemic came early to Seattle. And customers seem grateful. “If

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

A combination of “market volatility” and “increased demand for help with remote learning led to a great opportunity to set ourselves up to raise more capital,” Grauer adds. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In this Scholarship Owl review, you’ll learn the pros and cons of the search engine to match students with scholarship funds. After applying for multiple scholarships, you can access your account to stay updated about which scholarships you applied for, deadlines for extra materials, and notifications about acceptances. Is this true?

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

McGraw-Hill calls the approach “Inclusive Access,” and stresses that research shows that students who have course materials from day one of a class do better than those who put off or skip getting them altogether. He argued that digital tools have the potential to help students learn better and to improve retention in courses.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. Even the most digitally connected educator will have access to a printer, Fields said.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

From elementary school students to those preparing for high-stakes tests like the SAT or GRE, these vocabulary apps provide a diverse range of features tailored to different learning styles and objectives. With features like new vocabulary-building quizzes, it transforms vocabulary learning into an engaging and interactive experience.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In November, it also divested its language-learning business, Wall Street English, for $100 million. They’re much more comfortable with access, not ownership model.” a semester to access all of the company’s digital higher-ed materials. The publisher sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

To support that effort, the startup has raised $1 million in a seed round from a group of investors that include Metallavon VC, an early-stage investment fund based in Greece, and LearnStart, the seed fund affiliated with edtech investment firm Learn Capital.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space. This led higher education textbook publishers to shift towards digital publishing , albeit reluctantly as they learned that digital is the only way forward. Today, a lot of companies offer subscription-based services.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

We are advocates for early and equal access to education,” said Jeff Dunn, President and CEO of Sesame Workshop,” told EdSurge via email. “If This year, Francisco Partners is following suit, buying two established brands in Discovery Education and Renaissance Learning. WriteLab (Chegg). Yet not all investments pan out.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Three of the country’s largest publishers, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, are suing Follett Corporation, a major textbook distributor, on charges of selling counterfeit textbooks in its stores. Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Cengage recently introduced a new subscription model that gives students access to all of the company’s digital course materials for a semester or an year. Students can access more than 20,000 course materials— courseware, eBooks, online homework and study tools, across more than 70 disciplines and 675 courses.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

Online tests have also meant a booming business for companies that sell homework and test answers, including Chegg and Course Hero. a month, Chegg is offering a new service that provides fast answers to math problems submitted by smartphone camera, step-by-step solution included.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been about five years since Cengage Learning filed for bankruptcy , stumbling under the weight of shrinking print sales, a rough transition to digital and too much debt. Faculty have asked us over the years whether we care about the cost of learning materials. How are you characterizing a ‘vastly superior’ proposition?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2016

That includes note-taking and review in a variety of formats to touch the varied approaches to learning. They are flexible, scalable, and as a group, address a variety of learning approaches students use. There’s an easy-to-access setting that allows you to use your finger as an eraser. For that, students require study.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2023

The best learning apps are those that offer a friendly user experience, fun to use, and offer engaging content. They should help you learn something new, not just reinforce what you already know. Coding apps Learning to code is easier than ever before.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He envisioned a game-based educational platform used by teachers and students to learn about science and the environment. Esther Wojcicki, the esteemed journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, joined in 2016 as the company’s chief learning officer. million by February 2014 for a game to teach kids social-emotional learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

They were trying to prep summer courses by linking to the freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, content offered by Lumen Learning, a courseware provider that argues that OER can be a tool in making higher education more equitable. There was confusion. “Hi Hi OER Friends!

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

For that, we invented a concept called Learning Gadgets. Learning Gadgets are almost like little apps. If you want to track your learners, if you want to see the progress of your learners, if you want to bring in the information from the quizzes into your learning-management systems, then you have to buy. Young: Thank you.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2019

But that grew into the 25-year passion for me, both professionally and personally, around re-imagining the education system and how you provided people equal access to the education they need to thrive. We took [what became] Bright Horizons public and Renaissance Learning. The root of it is access to education.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

" It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Edsurge profiles Lexia Learning in a new research series paid for by a variety of investors and corporations. No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone. Very thorough research, gj.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

“Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” Techcrunch with the corporate PR : “For Apple , this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education.” Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer. Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” ” Holy s**t.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

“ Learning Engineers Inch Toward the Spotlight,” Inside Higher Ed claims. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. “Learning Designers will have to adapt or die. million from Naspers and Learn Capital. The learn-to-code company has raised $6.9

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Via NPR : “‘Access to Literacy ’ Is Not a Constitutional Right , Judge in Detroit Rules.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Pearson today signaled an increased focus on artificial intelligence and personalized learning with the appointment of former Intel executive Milena Marinova.” 24 Kindergarten Classes.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

.” We’ve reached “ Flipped Learning 3.0 ,” so that’s exciting. ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. VR “comes of age,” says Campus Technology. ” Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

” There is no schooling here, among other things (whereas there was school and access to lawyers in their previous detention facilities). The language learning company has raised $12.5 Achieve3000 has acquired Actively Learn. million total. Caribu has raised $1.3 million total. TurnItIn has acquired Gradescope.

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