eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This partnership expands its ability to support more schools and districts nationwide, increasing delivery of personalized learning and supporting equitable achievement for all students. Through seamless LTI or API integration, schools can leverage EdisonLearning’s courses and FocalPointK12’s advanced analytics, all in one place.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The latest round of deals in the school marketplace underscores investors’ and ed-tech providers’ burgeoning interest in data analytics and instructional technologies. TAL joins Knewton’s latest round of funding, which is led by Sofina, a Belgian investment group. By Alexa J. based school provider.

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Mistakengoal.com

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Here are some of the blogs that I follow that regularly impress me: e-Literate : Led by Michael Feldstein , this group of authors routinely post insightful and detailed information about technology and U.S. I particularly like this recent post discussing “big data” and its potential shortcomings.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them. They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Pearson was recently faulted by New Jersey state officials for a disruption of that state’s assessments.].

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

But the organizers were playfully acknowledging the size of their project’s ambition—which they hope will spark a more data-driven and experimental approach to teaching at colleges around the country. He and his colleagues published an academic paper with the finding called “ Learning is Not a Spectator Sport.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Investors in this Series B round include: Advancit Capital, Betty Cohen, Dave Pottruck, Deborah Quazzo, Gerald Hughes, Helena Wong, Kyowon Group, and Rick Segal. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. .” Speakaboos has raised $12.5 The startup has raised $25.2

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

. “ How Not to Study Donald Trump ” – “To make sense of Trumpism, and to put Trump in his historical context, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a mostly white group of scholars to suggest readings for a syllabus for a mock course in Trump Studies. The adaptive learning company has raised $4.57

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

.” I tweeted that the DACA database is one of the most important issues in ed-tech right now, and if you’re an ed-tech entrepreneur who says “nobody in ed-tech tracks immigration data,” you need to GTFO. ” The chain in question: Celerity Educational Group. ” Education in the Courts. million total.

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