eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in early January announced 15 startup companies selected to participate in the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator. OneRange , New York, NY OneRange is helping companies to automate the management of individualized learning budgets. Oblio, Inc. Quizard AI, Inc.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

“A key to growing as an educator is to keep company mainly with educators who uplift You, whose presence inspire You and whose dedication drives You.” Now you need to take time for yourself and go on some learning adventures of your own! ” – Robert John Meehan. The school year may have left you exhausted.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2023

Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. All GFW educators now also enjoy access to the Discovery Educator Network. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Discovery, Inc.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 6, 2020

By Devishobha Chandramouli Virtual events have been rising in popularity steadily over the last few years, but the COVID crisis seems to have skyrocketed the popularity of virtual conferences, with several companies even canceling their annual place-based conferences and switching to virtual conferences.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You might think that your first step is to attend conferences. You set a goal to attend local conferences and sign up to attend a national conference such as ISTE , FETC , or TeachBetter. How Can an Educational Technology Company Enter the Classroom? How Should EdTech Companies Treat Instructional Coaches?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

gathered in Oakland this past weekend for the Network for Public Education ’s (NPE) national conference, where several sessions centered around a common theme: protecting public education amid an era of federal budget cuts and concerns over the increased presence of technology in classrooms. Educators from around the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2016

Open, personalized and adaptive—the latest trends in digital learning promise to help more students get to and through college. At EdSurge we’ve heard inspiring stories of faculty developing digital learning environments that take students to virtual medical labs and outer space and into the inner workings of cells.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Drop the company name Instructure on the average educator and you may get a blank stare in return. Now mention the company’s flagship product Canvas and be ready for a flash of instant recognition. This was the first Innovations podcast recorded in person, but it certainly won’t be the last.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with representatives from two edtech product providers about the challenge of interoperability and their companies’ decision to implement a data standard through the Ed-Fi Alliance , a nonprofit organization funded by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Gale, a Cengage company, is helping educators enhance skills for virtual lesson planning and online teaching. Cengage, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. About Cengage and Gale.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A global community of education professionals, the Discovery Education Community connects members across school systems and around the world through social media, virtual conferences, and in-person events, fostering valuable networking, idea sharing, and inspiration.? . Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

at the CoSN 2018 Annual Conference. With the theme of exponential change, thought leaders and presenters at the conference will focus on how to design learning for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “We Bookmark our CoSN 2018 Annual Conference landing page to stay up to date.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

Instructure is officially a publicly-traded company—again. Officials from the company, which makes the Canvas learning-management system used at many colleges and schools, rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange today, marking its IPO.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You might think that your first step is to attend conferences. You set a goal to attend local conferences and sign up to attend a national conference such as ISTE , FETC , or TeachBetter. How Can an Educational Technology Company Enter the Classroom? How do you do this?

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. The mLearn tour is sponsored by a company called Telco Technology Services who specialise in supporting teachers in New Zealand schools with technology training and provision.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. Such partnerships are crucial in preparing faculty to offer engaging digital learning experiences to students.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 27, 2018

Companies continue to explore the possibilities of education through robotics , like IBM’s Project Debater , which recently held its own against established human debaters over complex topics including income tax and antibiotics in food. public sector director of education, in the report.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

This post is part of a series of conversations with thought leaders deeply-rooted in dialogue about courseware for digital learning. Gates Bryant: Courseware is central to personalized learning, but the discovery and procurement process seems confounding. Other posts include. Why Research Fails in the Classroom.

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techlearning

APRIL 3, 2018

More than 7,500 educators from around the globe gathered in Boston to participate in ASCD's #Empower18 conference. Attendees attended Learning Labs and Poster sessions facilitated by educators. Ellevation is a software company focused on ELL educators and the students they serve. Read more of my ASCD takeaways @MatthewXJoseph.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

A few months ago, I attended a digital learning conference among other education colleagues here in Chicago. All edtech companies should maintain these critical conversations. Company Was Acquired. Confused Company Culture. Teachers Are Siloed.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Additionally, conference attendees discussed the need to adopt data standards to help teachers and district leaders make real-time decisions to best support student achievement. Alongside technical experts, vendors, and peers, the district leaders explored tangible next steps toward implementation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2022

Through this new collaboration, educators districtwide are now integrating Discovery Education’s award-winning suite of digital resources into science instruction for all students’ grades K-12. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. .

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

This week the university co-hosted its tenth annual conference on university and edtech innovation, the ASU GSV Summit. At the conference, the university announced the creation of a new for-profit spin-off, called InStride, to serve as a broker and tech platform for companies who want to offer college education as a perk to their employees.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

And even when students have the right gear, there can be a learning curve to new tools. Educators have been trying some of these new tools during their own professional conferences this summer. Arizona State University experimented with a different online social platform during its Learning (Hu)Man conference for educators last month.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic. So far, the digital learning plans have been a boon to educators looking for advice.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa's passion for education came early in her career when she was producing "edutainment" CD-ROM products for The Learning Company. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students and provide access to information and learning resources in a more convenient way.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

As it turns out, the company wasn’t done fundraising. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year. Companies like Coursera, which helps universities build and access online courses, have ridden the momentum from new registrations to secure a $130 million investment in July.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2023

When classrooms and conference rooms abruptly moved online three years ago, we all experienced moments of technical frustration. And I think it really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. This innovative approach has been working for well over 10 years.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. It proves that there is appetite among investors for helping education companies serving the European market.” Others are building language-learning apps and toys that teach kids STEM concepts. In the U.S., Wirz notes.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

As a side note: We’ve been fielding a lot of reader mail on the topic, and we’d love to hear more from you—particularly if you’re a science teacher covering the subject in class, or are working with consultants to shore up your digital learning plans. Or ping us if you simply have ideas for what you’d like to learn more about.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

It’s a brand new year, which means the rows of dates on your desk or digital calendar may be pleasingly empty. The PDF includes links to the event websites where you can find the most current information for each conference. Green events are oriented around a specific product or company. Think we missed something? Let us know.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2020

The pending $2 billion sale of one of the largest learning management systems to a private equity firm has raised questions about what happens to the trove of student data held in the company’s courses. Instructure, which is currently a public company, is in the process of being sold to Thoma Bravo, a private company.

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Doug Levin

MAY 19, 2018

Largely unexamined in the large-scale shift to digital learning in education are the accompanying ethical considerations. Indeed, the issues and tradeoffs that school leaders and teachers face in using technology in schools and for education — whether free or for a fee — are more complex than they have ever been.

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techlearning

MAY 21, 2018

By extending their 10-year relationship with Discovery Education, EducationPlus reaffirms its commitment to empowering their 58 member school systems to create dynamic digital learning environments with high-quality content from Discovery Education Streaming Plus. Inspired by the global media company Discovery Inc.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. That was the focus of the company for its first nine years—or “chapter one,” as Paucek described in a conference call with investors on Monday morning. The two companies officially signed the deal at 6 p.m.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2023

“We are thrilled to continue partnering with Mystery Science to ensure our teachers’ ability to create access to powerful digital learning experiences that engage students in the wonderful world of science.” Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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