The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

In this first installment, software engineer Ben Slivka — inspired by science fiction — dreamed of creating truly adaptive learning software. CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software. Not the place for a software engineer of his ambition who believed in the future of the web. Richard Whitmire.

Software 70

Software Microsoft Education Blended Learning 70

Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

One of the primary factors fuelling this market growth is the adoption of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) in the learning process. An ITS is an AI-based learning software capable of imitating the methods and dialog of human tutors to impart knowledge in real time and on demand. Let’s look at what it will offer. ?

Classroom 127

Classroom Adaptive Learning Industry Software 127

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

There is no other company in the education industry that has been as open with their data and devoted to research like we have. We're looking at bias in adaptive learning and artificial intelligence technologies. We're a technology company, a content company and a professional services company.

Outcomes 150

Outcomes Tools Learning Company 150

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book. Personalized and blended learning pathways were proclaimed to be the future of education. How are we adapting and evolving? The need for digital leadership now is more urgent than a few years ago.

OER 243

OER Personal Learning Network Outcomes Blended Learning 243

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

Trends 144

Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Before the onset of the global pandemic, the education industry was hesitantly playing with the idea of infusion of immersive technology. Moreover, with the rapid development of digital technology, education tech trends will continue to transform. . Remote Learning . What is Edtech and Why Is It Important?

Trends 52

Trends eBook Gamification EdTech 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. million students. million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

Online Learning 125

Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 125

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. The companies building courseware products are developing increasingly complex algorithms that track students’ progress and recommend next steps in their learning paths.

Adaptive Learning 60

Adaptive Learning Software EdTech Course 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." Siemens’ work is on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital learning, but he doesn’t want to discuss the latest fads in education technology.

Digital Learning 60

Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

Social Media 100

Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 100

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

Jamie Najera Jamie Najera, an administrator at Colegio Nexus School in Monterrey, Mexico, traveled about 300 miles this week to attend the International Society for Technology in Education ( ISTE ) conference, where he hoped to find new technologies to support his students. “We

EdTech 125

EdTech Trends Coursera Company 125

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2018

When I first joined the Christensen Institute over five years ago we were knee-deep in studying the fast-growing market of tools designed to support blended learning environments. Beyond our education systems, communications technologies have advanced in ways that radically improved our ability to connect across time and space.

EdTech 50

EdTech Adaptive Learning Blended Learning Industry 50

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

edtech industry, that’s no big deal: In the first six months of 2018, 62 companies raised $739 million in venture capital. edtech company has hit the nine-figure mark in 2018: a $110 million round for Connexeo, a provider of administrative payment software for schools and community institutions. But for the U.S.

EdTech 65

EdTech Report Company Industry 65

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Studies have shown that publishers previously justified raising prices by bundling textbooks with supplemental software that are rarely used. And the company envisions that all of its higher ed digital offerings will be part of its cloud-based Global Learning Platform, which he describes as “the adaptive-learning engine of the company.”

Pearson 163

Pearson OER Company Knewton 163

MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

Technology 28

Technology Maker Movement Trends Khan Academy 28

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, April 25, 2018 — Summit™ Math , a curriculum of adaptive online math courses from Fuel Education ®(FuelEd®), and Stride ™, FuelEd’s supplemental learning solution for skills practice for students in PreK–8 grade, were both selected as winners in The ComputED Gazette ’s 24th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES).

Adaptive Learning 40

Adaptive Learning Instructional Materials Blended Learning Course 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. There are things that technology can do that humans can't. How does that work?

Learning Analytics 150

Learning Analytics Education Data Analysis 150

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). Investors, particularly in China, are looking across the Pacific to check out innovative tools and models that they haven’t explored or implemented back home,” observes Victor Hu, Global Head of Education Technology and Services at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division.

EdTech 93

EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 93

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. But, when the technology fails and you can’t take a breath no matter how hard you try, it’s called a panic attack. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. But, when the technology fails and you can’t take a breath no matter how hard you try, it’s called a panic attack. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Venture capital for U.S. Also missing were blockbuster exits, such as LinkedIn’s $1.5

EdTech 60

EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Examples abound in attempts to use new technologies to enhance (if not “transform”, or even “disrupt”) education. Their role, then, is to bring their technological prowess to bear to make this process more efficient. Almost all the personalized math learning software systems we have seen fall into this category.

Adaptive Learning 78

Adaptive Learning How To Learning EdTech 78

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Allen: Ten years ago the messaging from the traditional publishing industry was very much along the lines of “there's no free lunch,” and “how could free materials possibly be high quality?” So could there be a future where publishers essentially become adaptive learning software companies? Lang: I really think so, yeah.

OER 128

OER Course Resources Libraries 128

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Mark, how would you describe the ideal scenario of how this technology might play out at colleges, and how a student might be helped by AI on campus? As Mark mentioned, this kind of approach is revolutionizing every other industry.

Data 75

Data Adaptive Learning System Company 75

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Several software companies have their own repositories, such as Microsoft’s Docs.com, Schoology’s public resources, Canvas Commons, and more. Fishtree believes in giving students “voice and choice” to select the resource that matches their learning style. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

OER 60

OER Resources Common Core Education 60

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

” The education technology industry, meanwhile, keeps making it easier for teachers to record and share information on students. Software also collects information on students all by itself. Software also collects information on students all by itself. “And it’s not even close.”

Data 28

Data Knewton Report Software 28

Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 13, 2024

The rise of digital book creation software has provided authors and publishers with the tools required to not only swiftly craft literary works but also aid their publishing and promotion. Designing an Immersive Reading Experience Recognizing Learning Styles Implementing Visual Design Principles Using Adaptive Learning Paths IV.

eBook 52

eBook Social Media Adaptive Learning E-rate 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. The technology did not work.

Trends 93

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? What makes this newsworthy?

Knewton 43

Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Linways Technologies

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The rise of technology startup culture and remote opportunities has greatly benefited student participation in this stream. The industry wants to make sure that the graduates are ready to enter the workforce and will be able to provide a meaningful contribution without having to train them beyond a minimal amount. Global playing field.

Trends 71

Trends Adaptive Learning Education Outcomes 71

Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the flip side, online publishing has taken the industry by storm. eBooks Are Easy to Create and Distribute With online publishing , many publishing software have also emerged. In a cloud-based software the contents of the book are stored online, in one place. These have made the creation of eBooks very easy.

eBook 52

eBook Accessibility Software Learning Analytics 52

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. This allows students to automatically access an MP3 version of content added by the instructor into the LMS.

Epson 50

Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 50

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

Tools 69

Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 69

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

K-12 technology innovation is not just about subject-specific content but also about developing digital literacy skills. Students must be proficient in navigating digital tools, critically evaluating online information, and using technology responsibly. What are the educational technology trends in 2024?

Trends 117

Trends Digital Divide EdTech Adaptive Learning 117

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. We’re headed into a fourth year of learning in the pandemic’s shadow.

EdTech 135

EdTech Industry Assessment Data 135