Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

million in two companies: online bootcamp Springboard and Knowledge to Practice, a medical startup. Now, the publisher confirmed that it has spun off its Immersive Learning team, selling its assets to a new company, GIGXR , based in Venice, Calif. All 16 staff formerly on that Pearson team will make the transition to the new company.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2024

Each year without fail, ISTELive connects thousands of educators–from school and districts leaders to classroom teachers and technology directors–to education experts, industry leaders, and in-depth content sessions designed to improve teaching and learning. This year, ISTELive 24 lands in Denver.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2018

For those keeping count, the world is now entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But at last month’s WISE@NY Learning Revolutions conference, supported by the Qatar Foundation, panelists offered a surprising alternative for the skills that will be in most demand: philosophy, ethics and morality education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

I often find myself at Salesforce —a leading San Francisco technology company—looking out the window at the Bay, remembering the little girl who used to dream of this view. The booming technology industry presents many exciting economic opportunities for the next generation. Today we are facing a unique challenge.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student. colleges use at least one.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

It will take place in San Diego, one day before ASU GSV X Summit—the tenth annual investor conference. Not yet planning to attend that conference? Here’s the plan: MORNING: We’ll get an in-depth look at running an edtech company from startup through growth from the cofounder of Remind, Brett Kopf, and the company's CEO, Brian Grey.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

Many educational products are never shown to students until they have already been designed,” said Elliott Hedman, a consultant who works with edtech companies, in a talk this month at the SXSW EDU festival. He notes that there aren’t good incentives for edtech companies to spend the time and effort on more-detailed testing with students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2024

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. The fervor around AI was on full display at the SXSW EDU conference held in Austin, Texas, during the first week of March.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2022

“It's an employee market—employees are looking for something different from employers,” Catrina Ward, managing director of the nonprofit Jobs for the Future, told a panel this week at the SXSW EDU conference in Austin. Companies will ditch the classroom model in favor of a mobile education approach. Half of U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

When she was in the classroom, Jenny Herrera remembers feeling resentful whenever the school principal would email teachers telling them they needed to stay after school to give feedback to edtech companies. So from a company side, pilots can work, but I think it needs to happen much earlier.” What they got in return?

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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. Content Subtype. CDW Activity ID.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Anyone who is a teacher, school leader, learning designer, librarian or is involved in some way or another in creating and delivering education to students of all ages needs to stay on top of all aspects that are currently shaping up the industry. The best way to do this? The BETT Show will take place between January 22 and 25 in London.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Over the years, I have taken what teachers have requested and sent a ton of feedback to companies. But I was curious: What do the companies do with that feedback? All of the companies I spoke with noted that feedback from schools is extremely critical for the development and success of their tools. Most of the time.)

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

Six years ago, mixed reality game designer Jane McGonigal ’s keynote at the 2013 ISTE conference focused on how video games can boost resilience in real life. On the cusp of this burgeoning industry is cloud-based gaming, which TechCrunch calls the “new frontier.” K–12 Schools Find Educational Benefits in Cloud-Based Gaming.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 19, 2022

Our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," will be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

And, after steadily increasing for more than a decade, the proportion of top managers of companies who are women declined last year, to less than 12 percent, the credit ratings and research company S&P Global says. Eighty-seven women advanced in their companies, it found, for every 100 men. Szoo has plans to get a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

23-26): the companies who supply the tools, and the educators who use them; The Education Show (Jan. Perhaps one of the few areas of overlap was that three of the four conferences featured the similar talk by Andreas Schleicher, OECD’s education lead, who shared snippets from his team’s latest “Trends Shaping Education” report. (The

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education investing. and has recently invested in companies in India, Indonesia, Jordan and South Africa. Could Moe’s SPAC acquire one of GSV Ventures’ companies? Specifically, across the ocean.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 31, 2019

The conference floor was packed full with VR headsets, interactive products, incredible software, robots and anything you could imagine belonging in a classroom. The BETT Show is one of the oldest and largest events in the ed-tech industry worldwide. That was the general feeling I had while attending BETT just last week.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

What comes to mind when you think of the SXSW Conference ? And that’s a problem that’s bigger than this conference — it’s trouble for the economy at large. We don’t associate SXSW with HBCUs because professional conferences for technologists reflect our social struggles around race. The program is in its third year.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 30, 2020

Like many of you, I am a veteran of nearly one hundred education conferences and events over my lifetime. But one event, the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) , will always be on my agenda. LRP and their advisors have completely rebranded the conference, and feedback from the event is overwhelmingly positive.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

For many teachers, edtech conferences are a major highlight of the school year and a great opportunity to connect with fellow educators. From lesson creation to assessment and gamification, there is something for K-12 schools, universities, vocational schools, and so on depending on the purpose of the conference.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 24, 2016

British citizens’ narrow vote to leave the European Union left education companies on both sides of the pond asking, “What will this mean for us?”. There’s so much uncertainty,” said Gavin Cooney, a founder and the CEO of Learnosity, an Irish-based company with U.K. So far, there are more questions than answers.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 18, 2019

Edtech conferences are a great opportunity for everyone activating in the education sector to connect and network with fellow like-minded people and take the pulse of the industry. An edtech conference of such high caliber as ISTE can draw in hundreds if not thousands of exhibitors and tens of thousands participants! After ISTE.

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My Island View

MAY 2, 2023

My life has always been complicated by the fact that my wife, Joyce, has always been involved in the commercial side of education working for some leading industry giants, as well as smaller companies, and now as an industry consultant for emerging and growing companies in the education space.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

That left us at EdSurge to ponder, how are edtech companies making sure their products are working best for teachers, the people responsible for weaving them into lessons each day? And what—if anything—can we glean from the number of former educators in the leadership ranks of edtech companies? The short answer is—it depends.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 24, 2024

You could become a school leader, start a side hustle, become an organizer or an elected official, complete a summer fellowship, or present at education conferences. Some examples of such industries are government agencies, publishing companies, education services, nonprofit organizations, marketing, the legal field and human resources.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The education technology industry often gets flak for not seeking the perspectives of educators. So these days, companies, nonprofits and researchers make working closely with teachers and administrators as one of their main priorities. Dallas'] talents warranted us bringing him to our conference and he never asked us for money.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2021

It’s one of the first, putting the institution in the company of Drexel University and the Savannah College of Art and Design. I’ve been researching, going to conferences—sucking in everything I could, reading everything I could, watching everyone I could,” says Williams, who is now the director of the iEX Center.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2019

Foreign direct investment in the country has fallen by nearly 20% in the last three years, and the same period has seen British companies less likely to enter into foreign trade than before. To be one of the leading players in a $250 billion global industry would be a huge win. technology companies, and is projected to be worth £3.4

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

There are not too many education conferences that flip the script and let CEOs grill investors with questions. However, BMO Capital Markets’ 17th Annual Back to School Conference is the kind of event your boss’s boss attends. Based Education Technology Companies (2011-2016). billion in venture funding.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

Cybersecurity is an attractive job industry, offering a pathway for upward mobility and long-term job stability, with reportedly zero unemployment rate and an average salary of nearly $90,000 in the U.S. Also, a host of required certifications, skills and experience make it difficult to enter the industry.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 You taught courses at Lynda.com before LinkedIn bought the company. What are the skills that the industry at large has? And companies cannot afford to do that. Do you see that change?

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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. And surprisingly, without any research, most startups will discover how slow the education industry moves when they try and move their product to the market—especially without checking if their is even a need for the service.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Founded in 2014, the company has amassed a network of 70,000 educators and 31,000 industry professionals, all with the goal of showing different career paths to students as early as kindergarten. The Plano, Texas-based company can also count some more investors as part of its network. Kids don’t know what’s out there.”

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