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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

Edsurge

By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds.

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Paying to Turn in Homework? ASU Prof's Viral Email Raises Questions About Online Textbook Model

Edsurge

Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks. For Wright, the student at ASU, one solution has been to take advantage of a two-week trial period offered by many textbook companies.

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State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds

The Hechinger Report

But they often highlight the promise of so-called “adaptive learning” software, in which complex algorithms react to how a student answers questions, and tailor instruction to each student. It’s probably the largest and most rigorous study of adaptive learning to date. What SRI found was sobering.

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Smart Sparrow Raises $4 Million to Help Teachers—Not Tools—Drive Adaptive Learning

Edsurge

market in 2014, Smart Sparrow’s offerings have increasingly been described as “adaptive courseware.” Yet Dror Ben-Naim cringes—just a little—every time he hears that comparison. Adaptive’ is just one feature of good learning design,” the company’s founder and CEO tells EdSurge. Last June the company launched its.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Throughout the year, we’ve seen districts and edtech companies fall victim to these attacks, compelling districts to adopt a defensive stance. As a result, edtech companies also play a role in ensuring responsible AI use in the classroom by providing necessary training for educators and maintaining transparency around AI algorithms.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Throughout the year, we’ve seen districts and edtech companies fall victim to these attacks, compelling districts to adopt a defensive stance. As a result, edtech companies also play a role in ensuring responsible AI use in the classroom by providing necessary training for educators and maintaining transparency around AI algorithms.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via The Indiana Gazette : “Parents and other school district residents reminded the Indiana Area school board on Monday that their dissent of the Summit Learning program hasn’t waned, even though the administration scaled back the program and put it on ‘opt-in’ status for the 2018–19 school year.”

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