Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator: The Redwood City, Calif. based NuuED Inc. ,

Knewton 40

Knewton Edmentum Company Professional Learning 40

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. More than 90 percent of its users are in the U.S.,

Knewton 134

Knewton Company OER Pearson 134

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. The Classroom 2.0 November 2 - 4, all online, all free. We have attendees signed up from 133 countries!

Knewton 43

Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

For years education companies have tried to apply technologies to better understand students and tailor their learning experiences, or support instructors who can intervene when human help is needed. Speakers quickly contextualized the technology with the shift in how widely available data is today. “We Or does it?)

Pearson 154

Pearson Knewton Education Learning 154

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Teachers and the Future of Education" (the importance of teacher voice in education discussions, "Hack Your Education" (thinking about self-directed learning--Audrey''s in this proposal), and "Technology, Pedagogy, and the Silver Bullet" (addressing the myopia of some ed tech business ventures). The Classroom 2.0 show is back!

Khan Academy 44

Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference was a huge success, and all of the session recordings are posted on the site! The Classroom 2.0 Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. show is back! Or Build One?

Khan Academy 39

Khan Academy Knewton Digital Divide Pearson 39