Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

In the latest dealmaking news, Workday acquired online learning platform Zaption, while Blackboard teamed with Dreamit to support ed-tech startups. Workday serves some of the world’s largest organizations and educational institutions that are eager to have better, more engaging learning experiences.

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Blackboard Company Industry EdTech 46

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced Education Technology finalists. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. and globally. Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists.”

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IXL Learning Technology Pearson Education 60

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017.

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 184

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Private equity and venture funds have invested record sums into the global education sector—$30 billion in the past five years across K-12 and workplace learning. Here are five key trends to consider as education enters a new decade: 1. In the workplace, education is the new healthcare. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

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Trends EdTech Education Company 169

Lightspeed Systems

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Industry Veteran to Drive Company’s Continued Growth and Further Enhance Client Experience Austin, Texas —November 6, 2023—Today, Lightspeed Systems® , the edtech market leader in digital safety, security, and equity solutions, announced the appointment of Craig Chanoff to the role of Chief Revenue Officer.

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System Pearson Blackboard EdTech 69

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The concept has become especially embedded in education, ever since schools and universities closed this spring and the video call service became the lifeline tethering students to instructors. And more than 35,000 people from 154 countries participated in its Zoom Academy for K-12 educators at the end of July. I like early market.

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Company Education Kaplan Learning 180

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that.

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Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

“We’re using technology like a startup might,” says BASIS Educational Ventures CIO Matthew New. “We Use Data to Enhance All Aspects of Education. While using analytics across all aspects of education might seem like micro­management, schools that do so on a daily basis would beg to differ. We have a hybrid cloud on-premises.

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Outcomes Data Blackboard Moodle 260

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s been quite a year for education news, not that you’d know that by listening to much of the ed-tech industry (press). And yet the education/technology industry (press) still maintained that blockchain would surely revolutionize the transcript and help insure that no one lies about who they are or what they know.

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Technology Industry Education Robotics 110

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 97

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Launched in 2015, Bridge marked Instructure’s attempt to replicate its success with Canvas, a LMS for higher education, in the corporate learning space. But the two markets are very different, as industry analysts like Michael Feldstein have pointed out. Still, the business posted a $1.3 million loss.

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LMS Moodle Blackboard Company 137

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

As always, education is changing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. In fact, a study on Forbes found that global education technology (EdTech) is one of the fastest-growing segments today, and is expected to be worth $252 billion by the end of this year.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Learning Analytics 242

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

When Instructure was a fledgling at the turn of this decade, it proudly branded itself as a rebel with a cause—to become the anti-Blackboard by building a better learning management system. It flagship product, Canvas, has overtaken Blackboard in the North American higher education market, and is gaining adoption in K-12 as well.

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Blackboard LMS Company Data 108

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. But at a university? “We

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Either way, Meta’s possible entrance into the market plays into a long-standing fear of big tech in the edtech industry. There was speculation early on in the development of the Blackboard learning management system, for example, that a company like IBM or Microsoft would acquire a company and eat the market for LMSes.

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Facebook Course EdTech Video 120

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2021

Going after an industry giant in K-12 college and career planning wasn’t what Katie Fang originally had in mind when she started SchooLinks in 2015. Naviance was recently acquired by PowerSchool , which is the most widely used provider of student information systems and other education data services in K-12 schools and districts.

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Blackboard Company Industry System 153

edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2020

When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Blackboard.

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Online Learning Blackboard Learning Social Media 87

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Designed to inspire students to succeed in Bioscience, Business, Engineering, and Human Services, CAP brings together industry and education for student-driven learning through authentic problem-based work projects. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

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Industry Blackboard Education Study 43

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

When New Markets Venture Partners first began fundraising for its second education technology investment fund, Barack Obama was in office, Brexit for up for debate and iPhones still had headphone jacks. Its latest fund, dubbed “New Markets Education Partners II,” formally and finally closed on April 30, totalling $68 million.

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EdTech Blackboard Kaplan Company 113

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Instructure’s Canvas product dominates the higher education LMS market with an estimated 35 percent share and continues to take business away from one-time industry leader Blackboard. Blackboard itself went from a publicly traded company to private equity owned in 2011.

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Blackboard LMS Company Report 79

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

At the University of Pennsylvania, the Graduate School of Education is located directly beside the Wharton School, the campus’ business school. The ethics of mixing business and education seems to depend on upon how you define “entrepreneurship.” And if profit is part of the motive, is it okay?

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Education LMS Moodle EdTech 80

Neo LMS

MARCH 21, 2017

The place where students spend most of their time preparing to become successful citizens in our ever more connected modern world hasn’t evolved much since the pre-industrial era. Markers and whiteboards have replaced chalk and blackboards, the furniture is nicer, and maybe there’s a projector in each classroom.

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Flipped Classroom Classroom Blackboard Industry 243

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The education industry didn’t. School closures have forced people to not only rely more on digital tools in the short term, but also reimagine what education can be once it’s safe to return. The pandemic also disrupted the normal sales cycles for education companies, and many turned to government support to stay afloat.

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EdTech Coursera Udemy LMS 94

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It turned out that Blackboard Collaborate, the LMS that WBU’s Anchorage satellite campus uses, is not compatible with Safari, the internet browser the student was using. Jay Sample, says that as technology and education evolve, more courses are relying on learning systems to deliver content or facilitate discussions. TechReady.io

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Company LMS Blackboard Classroom 102

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And despite some “uneven” progress in recent years, STEM fields are just not as diverse as industry leaders would like. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. A room of educators gets schooled on the rigors of mathematical modeling in the life sciences.

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Training Course STEM Social Media 218

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Others cater to specific industries, such as Discord, which is often used in gaming. And it does not look at video-conferencing tools built specifically for education, such as Big Blue Button and Schoology. Attai has also published a checklist of what educators need to consider when they use video conferencing apps.

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Report Video Schoology Microsoft 157

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. In light of simmering U.S. Most college students in the U.S.

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 121

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 160

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2013

In Differences In Life Expectancy Due To Race And Educational Differences Are Widening, And Many May Not Catch Up , researchers found that when "race and education are combined, the disparity is even more striking. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

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Blackboard Education Outcomes Industry 63

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

New Markets is bringing back a familiar face to steer its next education investment fund. His newest role—as general partner at New Market Venture Partners—coincides with the first closing on a new education fund. In education it’s better to work with institutions rather than go around them.” The Fulton, Md.-based

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EdTech Kaplan lynda.com Company 135

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I told him that I''m particularly interested in the topics of self-education, life-long learning, and accreditation and how they are changing because of the Web, and he agreed to an interview, but insisted (smile) that we also discuss his newest book, September University : Summoning Passion for an Unfinished Life. Log in at [link].

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Blackboard Education Learning Libraries 67

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. But they are not done with higher education yet. Parent builds edtech.

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Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 109

techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global/IMS) announced that 19 educational technology suppliers have committed to early LTI Advantage adoption and IMS certification. [ IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global/IMS) announced that 19 educational technology suppliers have committed to early LTI Advantage adoption and IMS certification. [

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Edmentum Blackboard Learning Industry 40

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

put $150 million in Hero K12 , and Bain Capital, whose Double Impact Fund is on the hunt for promising (and lucrative) education teams. million Trilogy Education $30 million $30 million CreativeLive $25 million $76 million Nearpod $21 million $30 million Examity $21 million $21 million . Few Big Exits.

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EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 94

Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

While it’s hard to know for sure how the schools of the future will look like and function, I think it’s safe to assume education technology will be omnipresent. Education technology already assists teachers create diverse and engaging learning materials and deliver better classes. Well, at least more than it is today.

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Gamification Social Media Smartphone Tablets 234

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

Join me Tuesday, May 8th, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Stanford Mathematician Keith Devlin, co-founder and Executive Director of the university''s H-STAR institute, a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network, a Senior Researcher at CSLI , and " the Math Guy " on National Public Radio.

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MOOC Blackboard Education Analysis 59

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. The first ‘lite’ option that most educators think of is Google Classroom. It’s easy to use, accessible from all devices, collaborative, and integrates with lots of education apps. Designed by Freepik.

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Moodle Google Classroom LMS 154