Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. And how is edX doing by comparison? It’s a tale of two companies in terms of strategy.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2022

This year’s report reviews multiple comparisons of readiness levels within several demographic categories, a four-year comparison to determine the impact of the pandemic on learner readiness, and specifically how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted learner readiness over the quarantine period. To download your own copy of the report here.

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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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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.

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Blended Learning Classroom How To LMS 200

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Machine learning algorithms support adaptive, personalized and spaced learning, while natural language processing technologies help with the extremely complex challenges associated with understanding and translating human language. Launched in 2015, Ponddy Education makes AI-supported language-learning products and services.

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Software Company Study Flipped Classroom 141

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Can a “Netflix”-like subscription model really work for online education platforms? Investors who are fond of analogies and comparisons to consumer technology successes are betting on one New York City-based company to find out. Skillshare has raised $28 million in a Series C round led by Union Square Ventures.

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Udemy lynda.com Company Course 72

Marketplace K-12

MAY 27, 2015

The Learning Accelerator has worked with between 25-30 companies to create the "pricing database.'.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to United States Census Bureau projections , by the year 2034, there will be 77 million people ages 65 and older in comparison to 76.5 In a recent study conducted by McKinsey & Company, statistical models based on academic studies estimated the potential influence of school closures on learning.

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Education Industry Training Strategy 190

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 16, 2020

Whatever reason you may have for turning towards the virtual realm of education, you can’t deny that online learning has become the norm. Research and Markets predicts that by 2026, the worldwide online learning sector will hit $336.98 Make learning more interactive. billion at a staggering CAGR of 9.1%

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System Strategy eBook LMS 72

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 16, 2023

The metaverse is being developed by several companies to enhance virtual experiences. In truth, there is still some debate about precisely how the metaverse should be defined because different companies have different approaches, while users also have varying expectations.

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How To Gamification Accessibility Technology 316

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

That’s not surprising in a red-hot job market, where many companies say it’s tough to find employees. I was flabbergasted to read that New Mexico was paying online tutors $50 an hour to tutor from their homes. Tutoring companies are a booming business. Hourly rates of $20 to $30 are fairly common in my reporting.

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Study Video Report Training 121

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

But these “action research” studies are often poorly designed without comparison or control groups and their conclusions — my idea worked! Ulrich Boser, founder of the Learning Agency, a consulting company, happened to be doing work with ASSISTments and was intrigued. — are colored by teacher subjectivity.

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Classroom Groups Comparison Study 137

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. This is the flip-side of the credit score comparison: students are not numbers, but complex individuals. That makes it easier for staff to make false assumptions.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2018

But then he pursued a career in business, first at a strategy consulting firm, and later working his way up to CEO of a tech company called Snapfish, which did photo sharing and hosting and printing and that kind of thing before Instagram existed. And that was really the point. We had to actually design an entire system [to do these].

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Meeting Course Technology System 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

But this investment, estimated at about $425 million only if every state were to take advantage of it, pales in comparison to the amount Americans, especially those who are more affluent, spend on commercial tutoring services. That market includes roughly $630 million in online tutoring services alone.

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Analysis Study Meeting Report 141

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

By comparison, so few students made the cut in Puerto Rico in either grade that year that the percentages rounded to zero. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. On the math test that children all over the U.S. In 2021, school officials announced that 13,000 students had failed all their classes.

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