The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

In September Prezi meeting was launched which enables up to 10 people to edit or view a Prezi remotely. After interviewing many prospective companies I became frustrated with the lack of innovation and impressiveness of their products. Learn Boost is a startup company that has developed a gradebook program that has great potential.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In 1998, for instance, researchers from the university formed a spin-off company called Carnegie Learning that popularized the math tutor software developed at the university. More recently, in 2013, a company called Acrobatiq was formed to try to bring lessons learned from the Open Learning Initiative to the market.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A pair of consultants who run a popular edtech blog plan to start offering events—in hopes of getting people at colleges and companies who don’t usually talk to each other to join forces on innovative teaching efforts. The amount of the sponsorships was not disclosed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs we talked to said they each received upwards of 20 emails from investment banking groups, inviting them to meetings in private suites. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. Here’s a few of the things we noticed on Day 1.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

She says if she was still using Facebook groups, she doesn’t think the recent news about the company would bother her. She explains that the quizzes that can gather someone’s data usually show up on personal feeds, not on group pages. She felt like having both would be redudant. Then there were academic reasons.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. The baby follows what is going on in the room, smiles at passers-by, plays "peek-a-boo" games, and obviously delights in company.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2020

It’s too soon to say how the pandemic will impact retention of Teach for America’s 2020 corps members—the organization won’t have complete data until all of the schools it serves have had their first day and can tally how many of the 3,000 incoming corps members show up to teach (in person and remotely).

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has a web service interface to store and retrieve videos and data. Dropbox is another resource to upload videos, files, and data securely and giving access to students. Zoom integrates with learning management systems like Canvas, Moodie, Desire2Learn, Blackboard, and Sakai. Google Meet.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This presentation highlights specific eBook tools, presents tactics to ensure educators are meeting CCSS and state standards, and presents examples of best practices in enhancing the reading experience for all readers, but specifically kids who struggle. Sarah has been a librarian for many years, and also a long distance runner.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Image and data credits are listed at the bottom of this post. But the data is flawed. The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people. This data is big data.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Founder Michael Chasen, formerly chief executive of the learning management system company, Blackboard, has raised a hefty warchest of funding: $46 million from investors that include Emergence Capital, Bill Tai (one of the first investors in Zoom) and leading education investors including GSV Ventures, Owl Ventures and Reach Capital.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 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 degree requires the traditional 120 credit hours, but features small classes, extra supports, accommodation for different learning styles, and a modified course schedule to meet the students'' needs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The pair then started the company in January 2013. A study published by the company suggested that students who worked in groups were 16 times more likely to complete an online course class than their peers who took it individually. The platform also offers collaborative tools so teams of students can work together on projects.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 30, 2019

This year at ISTE I had the opportunity to meet and get to know a great company called bulb. Establish professional learning plans to meet goals and standards. “A Leading school districts across the country are using bulbEd, an enterprise solution for schools and districts, to prepare and meet the demands of the digital era.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 30, 2019

This year at ISTE I had the opportunity to meet and get to know a great company called bulb. Establish professional learning plans to meet goals and standards. “A Leading school districts across the country are using bulbEd, an enterprise solution for schools and districts, to prepare and meet the demands of the digital era.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY ADVANCEALL ( benchmarkeducation.com ) Benchmark Education Company (BEC) released Advance ALL, a new series motivating students to read with literary and informational reading text sets. to streamline workflows for assessment and data analysis. Incorporating end user feedback, the 10.0 Illuminate 10.0

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

Even in the age of online lectures and digital courseware, college advising has remained relatively low-tech: sketching out degree plans with a pencil and paper during one-off meetings between students and advisors. Better data-sharing across campus. Katie Trulley. For any operational system, there will always be a human element.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

According to the most recent federal data, more than 60 percent of fourth-graders in the United States are not proficient readers. ” The Gibsons gave APM Reports an audio recording of the meeting where they discussed the test results with staff at their son Eddie’s school. And, oh, we don’t agree with it.’

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

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. In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2016

The idea of “open” intersects with education and educational technology in many places – open content, open educational resources, open access, open data, open knowledge, open source, and open standards. The Open Source Initiative defines open source as software licensed in a way that meets ten criteria. Open Content.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

DIRECTIONS: Step 1: Join us at the online meeting room on Zoom ([link] Step 2: We are going to play a Kahoot game to learn some things about Amazon. The moderators of this session represent communities that have been meeting and collaborating online for well over a decade now. English language learners are welcome, too.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 27, 2020

A meeting with a professional who represents the careers about which students are curious is part of this exploration. The most crucial piece of this interaction, emphasized Hidalgo, is that students get “a chance to meet people who look like them in careers they didn’t even know existed.”. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 16, 2015

It was also, perhaps unbeknownst to Lofton, part of the community college’s strategy to marry data science with interventions to improve student performance. Innovative predictive analytics are essential for businesses, especially tech companies. Yes, colleges and universities have long used data to help shape policy.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.” Google announced it was adding to search results about colleges and universities data from the U.S. As far as I know, the data shows otherwise. ” Education in the Courts. million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Many students cannot afford the heavy data usage required by geofencing apps, for starters. Many of us have become quite lackadaisical about the data we share.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” This is how well your district does.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” Via the Phoenix New Times : “Meet the Creationist Helping to Change Arizona School Standards on Evolution.” ” There’s more data on student loans down in the research section below. There’s also an article on financial aid and cybersecurity in the data and surveillance section below.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Dance concealed about $12,000 in payments he received through his consulting work in 2015, including $4,600 from an organization called the Education Research and Development Institute – ERDI for short – that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies. ” More via The Washington Post.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. ” Phrases like these were repeated again and again and again this year, as many ed-tech companies have, for years now, relied on venture capital as their primary source of revenue – a source that’s no longer readily available.

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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

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” Jeff Fernandez, the co-founder of the online learning company Grovo , has resigned.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senate bill compels data collection on foreign-born college students.” The sale of the Apollo Education Group , parent company of the University of Phoenix , has been finalized. Data dashboards. “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m

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