eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. Essential Physics is a full-color, comprehensive physics textbook, paired with an e-book offering over 100 interactive tools to increase student engagement and understanding.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

All teaching resources purchased in the ClassFlow Marketplace can be delivered to students in the classroom, at home, or on-the-go using ClassFlow’s free delivery features. Additionally, Brightspace includes real-time learning analytics to provide teachers with engagement data that can help them improve student outcomes.

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Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

Companies and venture capitalists alike see huge opportunities for what they insist will be a growing market: last year, McKinsey called education a $1.5 One firm predicted that the “ smart education and learning market ” will grow from $105.23 billion in the 2012–13 academic year. trillion industry. billion by 2020.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Amazing what reading a book will do for you. ” Also via Wired : “Companies Are Cashing in on Reality TV for Tots.” Via Wired : “How Apple Lost Its Place in the Classroom.” ” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” million total.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Edsurge and Getting Smart promote venture capitalist Ryan Craig ’s new book A New U and the idea that “ faster + cheaper alternatives will replace most of higher ed.” The company has raised $20.4 The company, which claims it’s like “LinkedIn for students,” has raised $14.1 million total.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. ” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. ” “How Real-World Learning Could Help People Compete With Machines ” – The Chronicle of Higher Education on Joseph E.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

“ Are Edtech Companies Doing Enough to Protect Student Privacy? ” Via The Verge : “ Amazon is launching a $23 subscription book box for kids.” Via GeekWire : “ Project Unicorn signs first companies to help schools handle the hairball of edtech data.” . “ Are Etextbooks Affordable Now?

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

The learn-to-code company Treehouse has launched “Techdegrees,” “a guided-learning experience designed to prepare students for entry-level developer jobs at companies across the country.” ” “ Zynga ’s Headquarters Is Worth More Than The Actual Company.” Credit Cards).”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

” They’re suing the company. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. ” I’m concerned, in no small part, because students are often unaware of the amount of data that schools and the software companies they contract with know about them. Perhaps they do.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning” can mean that students “move at their own pace” through lessons and assignments, for example, unlike those classrooms where everyone is expected to move through material together. (In In an invented history of education, this has been the instructional arrangement for all of history.)

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