Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

The Pearson Study In what was described as an effort to build transparency around their products, Pearson’s CEO, John Fallon, issued a directive for the company to run externally audited public efficacy tests on the firm’s third-party edtech applications.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

I think AltSchool—and I don’t think I’m saying anything that their founders would disagree with—started off as a tech company. They were interested in some type of a thesis around starting some type of edtech tool that could be kind of the operating system of [education]. But that’s not the focal point of the school.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

An intelligent learning platform (ILP) for schools and universities might be the tool you’ll start using soon if you’re a teacher, academic institution leader, student, or parent. Schools and universities have been leveraging the power of edtech for quite a while now.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I said, ‘Look, here’s what I expect you to learn, and here’s everything you need to learn it. Go learn it, but I’m not going to tell you to learn it by this date.’ Mastery- or competency-based learning is one of those fuzzy pedagogical terms that is open to interpretation.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 20, 2018

More and more companies are focusing on skills rather than degrees to hire talent. So as a result, we are now seeing more skill based educational practises in colleges. Disconnecting degrees from job requirements. People who chose to work in a different industry as to what they have studied in college are also common now.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

For-profit and nonprofit companies are also continuing to grow to fuel the microschool movement—from Wildflower School’s Montessori microschools to Acton Academy and Kaipod Learning. This post originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. It’s unclear at best.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Learn More About Kiddom Academy For Schools: 3 Ways a Company Can Personalize Its Support for Teachers. Learn more about Kiddom Academy. When I Buy Edtech Products, Our Teachers Don’t Use Them… What Do I Do? Apply to Kiddom's Pilot program. Kiddom Pilot’s 2018 Scope and Sequence. Digital Promise Ed-Tech Pilot Toolkit.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App. com ) & ( www.bvlp.com ) & ( www.schoolmint.com ) Hero K12 and BV Investment Partners announced SchoolMint will be joining their EdTech Platform.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “DeVos Abandons Plan to Allow One Company to Service Federal Student Loans.” Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy looks at the acquisition of EDMC – the parent company of the Art Institutes chain – by The Dream Center Foundation , a network of Christian missionary centers.

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