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 Urdan says Duolingo brought a mobile-first approach to the sector. billion, making its total valuation more than $4.7 Duolingo has a few things going for itself.

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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. Benefits of KITABOO and Microsoft Immersive Reader Partnership.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. I’ve always thought of the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

Pause a second and think about companies such as Uber and Airbnb. Cost and ease of access will only lead to more schools and districts going down this path. The essential components of an infrastructure capable of supporting transformational learning experiences include the following: Ubiquitous connectivity.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Sanchez leads the Mobile Experiences and Emerging Technology team at Coursera, the online learning platform where students anywhere can take courses, master a career skill, get professional certificates, and earn degrees from 200 top universities and companies, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Google and IBM.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? The crisis has shone a harsh light on the digital divide in the United States, surfacing thoughtful debate and long-overdue discussion around the equity gap.

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Digital Divide Education Accessibility E-rate 249

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2023

And we introduce technologies in ways to make them more affordable and accessible to schools, districts and educational agencies. We’ve even seen instances where mobility-restricted students struggle in classrooms where power cords are dangling from desks to outlets. How else does Qualcomm address the digital divide among students?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 25, 2019

Learning is more digital than ever and it will only continue in that direction. But along the advantages and immense potential of digital learning, threats are lurking in the binary universe as well. Digital security threats can come from new and unexpected sources. Today’s students are digital natives.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa's passion for education came early in her career when she was producing "edutainment" CD-ROM products for The Learning Company. It offers companionship for some and greater accessibility for those with disabilities. EdSurge: Why have we seen such rapid growth in the adoption of voice-enabled devices like the Amazon Echo?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

Students were excited about learning. Something else that was immediate and dramatic: the gap between students who had Internet access at home, and those who didn’t. “You can’t just send them home with an assignment or some research to do, because they have no access.”

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Resources E-rate Broadband Digital Divide 120

Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

So to be on the current, institutions should focus on how to engage with the students, how to assure a certain level of quality in teaching-learning, and how digital learning is perceived. Some of them are developing their own courses to train workers in the skills the company needs. In higher education, a lot’s at stake.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Community providers, such as the University AME Zion Church (UAMEZ) in Palo Alto, California, understand that digital literacy development, like any learning, starts with building trust in the community and meeting learners where they are. UAMEZ understands the challenges learners face in gaining digital skills.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools. Providing these new opportunities for educators and students supports our long-standing commitment to increasing skill building and advancing tech equity in education across the U.S.”.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 21, 2023

Also, a VPN provides access to educational resources and online platforms even when they are geo-restricted, expanding students’ learning opportunities. Additionally, a VPN enables students to bypass content restrictions and access streaming services, movies, and TV shows from different regions for entertainment purposes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Future of School (FoS) today announced that Microsoft has joined as a partner in the Resilient Schools Project (RSP) to provide access to valuable training sessions from Microsoft Store aimed to support educators with remote and hybrid learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

By scanning a handwritten or printed math problem from a smartphone, Photomath uses computer vision and machine learning to recognize and instantly solve basic arithmetic to advanced calculus. Photomath is transforming the way students learn and removing the pain points and costs associated with digital learning and tutors.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2016

CUE , a nonprofit professional development organization for education technology, chose Touchjet , the first company to create a touch projector with a standalone Android operating system and a recent finalist of the 2016 Edison Awards for innovation, to help bring interactive technology to classrooms around the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It also threw a wrench into plans to refresh the district’s fleet of aging digital learning devices. One roadblock Sparks encountered was internet access. About 93 percent of Kanawha students report having Wi-Fi at home, so that left some students without an internet connection and a way to access lessons.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From Tech Company to Publisher?

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, May 22, 2018 — To keep students actively learning over the summer and to help prevent summer learning loss, the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE), with the help of Fuel Education® (FuelEd®), is launching its sixth annual Alabama Summer Learning Challenge. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

Named by Global Silicon Valley’s (GSV) EdTech 150 as one of the most transformative private companies in education, Labster’s team of 350-plus employees supports over 3,000 universities and high schools, tens of thousands of courses, and millions of students every year. See portfolio companies here: [link]. Visit www.labster.com.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Furthermore, the adoption of EdTech has presented an opportunity for companies to build products that cater to evolving needs of users. Now that the pandemic has subsided, designers should consider whether their education product caters to all-digital learning or hybrid teaching by offering the best user experience.

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eBook Education EdTech Broadband 59

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

What’s even more shocking is the percentage of children that have access to technology without the proper safeguards in place, or even a starting place for understanding how to protect themselves online and why it’s crucial. Almost half of all emails sent are spam emails just waiting to catch the unsuspecting user.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, February 17, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support National Engineers Week nationwide. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

The key difference in the past few years, however, has been larger funding rounds and valuations across a fewer number of EdTech companies. This distorts the total private placement numbers we see since the well-funded companies completing the larger private placements pre-IPO comprise a large portion of the overall deal volume.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In addition to sessions and presentations, edtech companies made major announcements and launched new products aimed at everything from network security and communication to digital portfolios and mobile devices. edSpring is a one-stop platform enabling educators to easily aggregate and access data in one spot.

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Mobility Digital Citizenship Assessment eBook 58

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I decided to call the book 'Digital Learning in Organisations' from the outset because my expertise lies in learning technologies. Here's David Kelly , New York based Executive director of the e-Learning Guild, with his view on mobile devices and learning: “Mobile technologies shouldn’t be viewed through the lens of learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ClassVR, the company’s solution, is a full turnkey VR and AR offering for classrooms, teachers, and education. Teachers can access the front office, enable daily communications campus-wide, or initiative an emergency alert from the touch of a button. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

This has led to higher education textbook publishers facing the brunt as that’s the only area where students and institutes can reduce their spends, by opting for digital textbooks instead. Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. Though free to download, Classroom must be configured with mobile device management (MDM) software (like.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2020

The goal of digital equity is to ensure that all students have access to devices, high-speed internet, and opportunities to learn both in school and out. One of the struggles in Wisconsin is digital learning days, where students with limited or no access to WIFI at home cannot access their education.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 7, 2022

Digital publishers, the corporate sector, and educational institutions are increasingly using digital publishing tools and learning management systems to create digital assets and impart digital learning experiences. The digital learning tool develops a bug or another issue, leading to downtime.

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Technology eBook Software Policies 52

Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 7, 2022

Digital publishers, the corporate sector, and educational institutions are increasingly using digital publishing tools and learning management systems to create digital assets and impart digital learning experiences. The digital learning tool develops a bug or another issue, leading to downtime.

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Technology eBook Software Policies 52

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Edtech features like online learning, digital modules, instructional videos & presentations, and much more allow learners to access learning material anytime and anywhere. . The only difference is rather than existing physically, students can save them on their digital learning devices.

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Trends eBook Gamification EdTech 52

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. Unstable Economies Impact E-Learning Market.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

At the turn of this century, adventurous faculty ventured out into cyberspace on their own, propelled by their own talent, accompanied merely by a laptop and internet access. Of course, as with every digital service provider, not all clients are happy.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

The approach aims to solve a major downside of remote learning—a sense of social isolation as students and professors sit alone at laptops. But any high-tech solution brings challenges as well—such as whether all students will have the devices or bandwidth necessary to access them.

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