eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. What are the projections for edtech?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

EverFi is a rare breed of education technology company that can boast a wide reach. Last summer, the company held its retreat at a Native American reservation in Montana, where a team had been introducing its financial education offerings. Making this model work, Wincup says, is one of the company’s “trade secrets.to

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Industry EdTech Coursera Company 136

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As some schools reopen, edtech product use declines. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. But its comparison was both more constrained in time—comparing results of students who took assessments in fall 2019 and fall 2020—as well as more expansive in absolute numbers, citing “5.3 It covered reading and math in grades 1-8.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN) and Empirical Education Inc. recently released the Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting EdTech Impact research in U.S. In “ Measuring Edtech Impact in the ESSA Era ,” experts delved into the details of the guidelines. K-12 Schools. The first step is to use a logic model.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Companies that have been in the game for a while have been courtside in watching EdTech explode over the past 35 years. The positive results were overwhelming, and though new literacy-based tech companies have tried to come in and teach reading in an innovative way, the phonics-based approach never fails. There’s no comparison.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And with that type of model in mind, it leads us to wonder what effect annual student influx has on technology adoption in the classroom and the cultural effect on the ability to experiment and personalize. Let’s explore what makes K-12 unique and how to best leverage technology to drive the experience. Low Barrier to Entry.

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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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edWeb.net

JANUARY 17, 2018

The Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN) and Empirical Education Inc. have recently released the Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting EdTech Impact Research in U.S. In “ Measuring Edtech Impact in the ESSA Era ,” experts delved into the details of the guidelines. K-12 Schools. The first step is to use a logic model.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

More than 600 exhibitors and 34,000 attendees are expected to descend on London this week for the annual Bett show , where some companies come with a barrage of updates befitting one of the biggest education technology trade shows in the world. Company officials won’t say that on record. Or so it feels.)

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Lenovo Microsoft Company Comparison 125

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2019

Before they founded a company together, Freddy Vega and Christian Van Der Henst were rivals. They had two different companies that provided services to Flash programmers until a combination of the programming language’s decline in popularity with the global recession killed business in the early 2010s. For the U.S.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

At first, educators could count the number of edtech programs in their school on one hand—and the number of users wasn’t too much more. During their edWebinar, “ Edtech Usage Data: Key to Planning Efficacy Research,” Dr. Denis Newman, Co-founder of Evidentally, Inc., It shows where a comparison study might be feasible.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 8, 2017

To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach. www.linkedin.com/company/joomlalms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 The company claims users in more than 14,000 U.S. Of that figure, about $12.3

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LMS Assessment Company Comparison 112

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

It is this assumption that has given us the many web-based, adaptive technologies that individualize curriculum on our kids’ behalf. That can result in teachers putting tablets in front of kids, letting the technology do the work, and meanwhile calling it “personalized learning” when it’s anything but that. 70), and prior ability (.94)

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 3, 2016

As a minority entrepreneur in the education technology space, I don’t often think about the intersection of my ethnicity and my venture’s success. One, according to event organizers Village Capital and Citi Community Development, is that “ minority-owned companies receive just 3 percent of venture capital investments.”

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Comparison Industry EdTech Company 169

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say. And how is edX doing by comparison?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). Yet edtech investors remain uncertain whether to invest in K-12 curriculum products. “Curriculum is becoming commoditized.” And he’s not alone.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Since February 2019, those three rideshare companies have raised at least $65 million in venture capital, and together employ more than 200 people. The companies have offered to deliver food and learning materials like laptops and textbooks to students’ homes. The company still plans to expand further into those markets.

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eSpark

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s not really a debate at this point, just a fact those who build and use AI-powered technology have to live with and account for. The company has had to address bias issues on the fly as its users surface unforeseen issues in their outputs, ranging from political ideologies to ethnic stereotypes. AI is biased.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The company also uses machine-learning technology to create a semantic map that labels and organizes the words based on their topical and root relationships. So far the company has taken a tried-and-true, perhaps even old-school approach: offering an illustrated print dictionary, vocabulary cards and workbooks.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

With that, I think it's worth taking a look at where each of the three big companies stands in regards to Ed. What's makes that perception of Microsoft fascinating is that there is a whole other segment of technology professionals who see Microsoft as being far behind. It could get there though if they keep making acquisitions.

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Microsoft Comparison Google LMS 41

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. boasts merely 120,000 enrollments.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

As one educator writes about their experience with the tool, there are no individual user profiles, no way to collect likes and no followers — basically, no emphasis on comparison. Almost a decade into experiments with gamification, edtech companies are changing the way they approach motivation. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

BOSTON (May 7, 2018)– Educational technology that adapts to meet the personal needs of individual students is in big demand in the pre-K-12 learning environment, with reading being a discipline where one technology-based adaptive literacy tool is driving better outcomes and learning experiences. point increase in NWEA reading scores.

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Personalized Learning Report Comparison Outcomes 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An experiment to create an inexpensive pathway for students to attend prestigious, four-year universities ended up costing one company a lot of money. Quad Learning , a company based in Washington, D.C. By comparison, the national 2-year community college graduation rate hovers around 11 percent, according to federal data ).

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Company Learning Comparison Trends 70

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Investors who are fond of analogies and comparisons to consumer technology successes are betting on one New York City-based company to find out. The company claims that the average Skillshare teacher makes about $3,000 a year, with top earners raking in as much as $40,000.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. For a quick summary, see our comparison chart at the bottom.). Here’s a breakdown, by order of their release.

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Microsoft Google Classroom Schoology 143

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

A flipped classroom is a teaching pedagogy which reverses old classroom teaching and homework through a form of blended learning using modern technology and practical application. [2] Biomimicry (also known as biomimetics) was coined by Otto Schmidt in the 1950s and describes the transfer of ideas and analogues from biology to technology. [3]

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Classroom Flipped Classroom Comparison System 189

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

The impetus behind the company can be traced to the frustrations that two of Pear Deck’s co-founders—all former classroom teachers—encountered while trying to keep their students engaged. The company claims “hundreds of thousands of users” across more than 40 states and 13 countries, according to co-founder and President Anthony Showalter.

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Haiku Learning Classroom Comparison Company 85

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

education technology startups raised over $2.2 billion in venture and private equity capital across 130 deals, according to the EdSurge edtech funding database. edtech industry. Many education entrepreneurs have long mused about how new technologies would usher in a “disruption” of the education market. In 2020, U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 195

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. education technology companies raised $1.45 edtech startups in 2017. For edtech companies able to show consistent growth and revenue, that should be welcome news.

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EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 145

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 16, 2020

Whether you are an organization that professionally holds training and lectures or a company undergoing digital transformation in education and development, incorporating active learning styles to engage students is highly important to execute effective learning. . Pre-K Learning: Enhancing Education with Digital Technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2022

The story of how educational technologies (edtech) make their way into our schools is very different. Understanding how these two approaches differ can help us see why our country urgently needs to change its approach to edtech if we expect this type of teaching and learning to succeed. Let’s look at three key differences.

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EdTech Comparison Learning Company 160

edWeb.net

AUGUST 5, 2022

Keep these tips top of mind during your edtech search: Just because tools are pretty doesn’t mean they correlate to academic achievement. Research should inform any edtech selection. Industry standards, urged the panelists, are critical to measuring the trustworthiness of product claims and completing product comparisons.

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EdTech Outcomes Company Comparison 77

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

I submitted a proposal for the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) convention. Rosenzweig found that the ISTE experience was “a sales environment” and a lost opportunity for educators to engage in deep conversation about how technology might improve teaching and learning. It was rejected.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Five PRIME Factors for EdTech Evaluation As someone who has evaluated and published findings on an edtech program for two decades, closely watching the marketing hype in the math edtech market in particular, I’ve come to believe something you may find shocking: All edtech programs work.

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Comparison EdTech E-rate Outcomes 52

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 16, 2023

Despite their novelty, avatars can appeal to a generation of students who have grown up using technology in almost every aspect of their day-to-day lives. Digital technology is integrated into almost every aspect of a modern student’s life, which is why students of this generation are often referred to as digital natives.

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