Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. As people are forced to learn from home, some online educational services are in greater demand than ever. But investors’ checkbooks remain open.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

AI has long been quietly embedding itself into higher education in ways like these, often to save money — a need that’s been heightened by pandemic-related budget squeezes. Humans always make the final calls, these colleges and the AI companies say, but AI can help them narrow the field. The University of Texas at Austin.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. What are the limitations and can they be accounted for as the technology evolves?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2024

The findings come from an effectiveness study independently designed and conducted by LearnPlatform by Instructure, a third-party edtech research company. The company, which has delivered more than 25 million sessions , plans to release additional MTSS tools in the new year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you're working with struggling readers in grades 6-12 try Literal and use the code coolcatteacher to set up a free educator account to get started. Go to [link] and use the promo code “coolcat” to get a free Educator account to try Literal in your classroom. Have a great classroom library. Advertise great reads.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Experiential learning is the future of education. Children have always been naturally curious and motivated by interactive activities, making them perfect partners for digital educational platforms. As a result, it has become imperative that educators make full use of today’s mediums to engage and encourage growing children.

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techlearning

AUGUST 20, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, August 20, 2018 — College and high school students can now explore real-life chemistry concepts and vary parameters using Pivot Interactives’ new chemistry library. Built-in, easy-to-use graphing and analysis tools help students draw their own conclusions about what they have measured. “The

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

L’Enfer (which translates as “Hell” or “Inferno”) refers to the library shelf mark given to the collection which was created in the 1830s to protect and isolate works that were considered contrary to the morals of the time. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Some want to gain better job prospects, others seek to socialize in new circles, while still others just want an educational way to entertain themselves. Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, / EINPresswire.com / — Edalex , the EdTech company that unleashes the power of skills data, digital assets, and personal credentials, are thrilled to be included in HolonIQ’s 2022 Australia & New Zealand EdTech 50 – for the third year in a row!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The situation is especially concerning among younger children: one analysis of reading level data by Amplify Education, Inc., Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading, with students of color faring worse.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The announced merger this week between two of the world’s largest textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill and Cengage—could mean more students end up buying subscriptions to digital courseware libraries each semester, rather than making a trip to a bookstore. He imagined the same approach will work once Cengage and McGraw-Hill become one company. “It

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

This is the first time Ad Fontes has commercially marketed its content analysis methodology instruction and databases to the educational market. Interactive Media Bias Chart Educator Pro Version — A database of news bias and reliability scores with automatic filtering tools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Technology for Education Consortium (TEC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving K-12 edtech procurement, today at FETC 2017 launched the TEC Data Platform. Currently, the platform’s library provides a sample report on iPads and Chromebooks. ” Access to the TEC Data Platform is limited to member districts only. .

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. An analysis of test scores in California and South Carolina found that students had lost almost a third of a year in reading. A national analysis of the test scores of 5.5 Some educators have tried to respond by emphasizing phonics. In 2016, U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

billion on the deal—95 percent cash, 5 percent stock—which has been approved by the boards of both companies, according to a statement Monday. In 2015, it was acquired by Vector Capital for about $300 million, taking the company private. Saba's course library and interface appear in this promo video. million in cash in January.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 19, 2022

Our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," will be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future. Please also join this Library 2.0

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Then she came across Tailor-ED , a San Francisco-based provider of a platform of open educational resources for math subjects that allows educators to group and assign work to students based on indicators like proficiency. At that time, the company only offered math materials for grades three to six. The startup has raised a $1.6

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

After interviewing many prospective companies I became frustrated with the lack of innovation and impressiveness of their products. Built upon an exhaustive open API library , BrainHoney is posed to integrate just about anything you could wish. TechSmith has embraced the educational community by giving away $2.3

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

In 2017, Stephen DeRue, dean of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, wrote a Forbes column arguing that, in order to make higher education more affordable, we needed to move towards an “iTunes model for education.” “In Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content.

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N2Y

JUNE 10, 2022

Polaris is an individualized education program (IEP) development solution that guides teams throughout the entire IEP process‑planning, writing, executing, and reporting — while promoting seamless collaboration that gives each member a voice for the best student outcomes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

John Katzman, long-time education entrepreneur and founder of several successful education businesses, once waggishly told an investor conference audience that venture capitalists were very pleased to invest in education—for the rich. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2017; Tyton Partners analysis.) And this is just online.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The free tool, called SkillsEngine , contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet. Leaders in Minnesota used it to build training pathways for personal care assistants. And that’s not all. The traditional resume?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

Data collection and analysis are cornerstones for many STEM and STEAM programs but they’re not just about math. They provide a wealth of rugged, inquiry-based products to educators in more than 100 countries around the world. They teach students how to think critically and solve evidence-based problems. What is PASCO Scientific.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 31, 2020

This week presents an opportunity to host a different kind of post-game show in our classrooms and libraries. These data will be ripe for analysis in the coming weeks. Create a chart listing the known advertisers and research their parent companies. Who decides what order the ads air during the game? Why is this so?

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts. Her remarks.) .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," will be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future. Please also join this Library 2.0

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 14, 2019

Education research is meant to improve teaching and learning. In the edWebinar “ Shaping the Future of Education Research: Digital Promise’s Challenge Map,” Liberman explained the purpose of the Map, how it was created, and how schools can develop their own. But what if research were driven by the needs and interests of educators?”

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2018

In its “Value of Clean” analysis, ISSA suggests moving from a merely cost-centered janitorial routine to one that doesn’t cut corners or wind up in inconsistent cleaning. When cleaning textile-covered surfaces like carpeted libraries or fabric-covered cubicles, opt for a dry polymer cleaning system that uses little moisture.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. You could maybe change the world, or at least the world of education.”

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The research also included computational analysis of Twitter data associated with respondents, as well as a Twitter panel of 135,891 college-age people. Teach students “knowledge in action” skills early on and throughout their education. We need to pressure social media companies to do much more to empower young news consumers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Online homework tools provide teachers with rich, targeted data about where students are struggling, which allows educators to tailor assignments to the specific needs of students. Simply put, we must ensure equal access to technology if we’re going to use it in schools — something that hasn’t always happened in public education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Set a few miles from the sea and surrounded by swampy state parks, Indian River Community College was for years a lone outpost of higher education on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Not everyone in higher education is thrilled about what some leaders of four-year institutions see as competition for students.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

(May 16, 2018) – Texas’ Richardson Independent School District (RISD) today announced it has selected Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, to support the district’s new, three year “Future Ready: STEM for All” initiative. said RISD Deputy Superintendent Dr.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Department of Education, kindergarteners from non-poor families were more than 5 times as likely to enroll in summer camp as children from poor families (39 percent versus 7 percent). Related: Coronavirus opens doors to rethinking education. We must continue to provide access to software, online libraries and educational videos.

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