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Smartphones in Education: Redirecting Distraction with Mobile Learning

ViewSonic Education

If you’re interested in how to better integrate technology into your classroom, visit ViewSonic Education. . While the benefits of technology in the classroom have been well established, mobile devices are another issue. Read on for a list of creative ways you can transform a distracting mobile device into a learning tool.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

Edsurge

Facebook Classes has been compared to Udemy, an online course platform which raised hundreds of millions of dollars during the pandemic based on the idea that anyone can teach video classes. [link] — Austen Allred (@Austen) May 26, 2022. Meta’s offering appears to be more tied to live events, though.

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Crises and Capital: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2020

Edsurge

Former Blackboard CEO Raises $16M to Bring LMS Features to Zoom Classrooms. Udemy Got $50M. Established companies raised money in greater amounts; longtime edtech entrepreneurs re-entered the market with new startups. US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online. Duolingo Just Raised $35M.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

PASCO Acquires Ergopedia: PASCO Scientific , a provider of science education solutions, acquired Ergopedia , a Boston-based developer of interactive technologies that seeks to enable hands-on learning in science and engineering classrooms.

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A Record Year Amid a Pandemic: US Edtech Raises $2.2 Billion in 2020

Edsurge

education technology startups raised over $2.2 Many education entrepreneurs have long mused about how new technologies would usher in a “disruption” of the education market. Just ask Duolingo and Udemy, which each closed a pair of investment rounds in 2020. In 2020, U.S. That’s a nearly 30 percent increase from the $1.7

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

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.

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