Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

When Course Hero raised $10 million in early February, the amount seemed curiously small for $1.1 As it turns out, the company wasn’t done fundraising. The deal pushes the company’s Series B round to $80 million. (It Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For learners to qualify for work that pays well and for companies to source the talent they need, the market around skills-based education needs to evolve quickly to train students in the technology platforms now required for the jobs they seek. They’re going to need the help of the platform companies themselves.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Their course inspired both the term “MOOCs” and a whole new industry.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

It didn’t align with the structure of her course. But OER advocates think open access course materials hold another kind of promise for students, too. Every course should be better every time it’s taught,” he says. I’ve been able to customize my version of the Lumen courseware to better match my course,” Greenlaw says.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Online and blended learning have become powerful solutions to improve students’ access to a high-quality education, regardless of their life circumstances, socioeconomic status or zip code,” said Thom Jackson, President and CEO of EdisonLearning. “As

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2021

EdisonLearning a premier provider of digital learning solutions for grades 6-12, and Pointful Education, a leading publisher of career and elective courses, today announced a partnership that expands EdisonLearning’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) and elective offerings with the integration of Pointful Education’s online courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2021

As professors are redesigning a lab unit for an introductory biology course at Arizona State University, they’re getting advice from Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood veterans on how to help students form emotional connections with fictional “frog-cats.” We want to eliminate the notion that these are hard courses.

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2021

According to a December 2020 survey, more than 70 percent of teachers in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools reported feeling prepared for distance learning, with 93 percent crediting the program with making aspects of remote instruction easier to implement. The Halo Award is not the only recognition the program has received this year.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

That appears to be the hope of officials at the two companies, which have both been trying for years to shift the focus of their businesses from selling print books to shipping software and other online tools, and have recently been experimenting with subscription models. Only about 20 percent of courses in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

We are just getting started with voice technology in education. Voice, after all, is one of the most natural ways to interface with technology, says Coursera’s Alexander Sanchez. We are just getting started with voice technology in education. What do you see as the future of voice technology in education?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When Barbara Ciaramitaro joined Capella University in 2018, she and her fellow faculty members faced a dilemma—what sort of course work could the online, for-profit university assign students that would also appeal to potential employers. says company CEO and co-founder Dana Stephenson. It gets them real-world experience.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa Mierow It’s no secret that voice-enabled technology is taking off in the domestic sphere, but how is this increasingly robust technology impacting education? Marissa's passion for education came early in her career when she was producing "edutainment" CD-ROM products for The Learning Company.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This course was meant for anyone interested in becoming a future software engineer or data scientist, not someone who is already one.” A still shot from an online course about the Python programming language, created with the help of a generative AI tool. For this generation of students, an avatar is one of the tools that would work.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 25, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. Free Distance Learning Resources. PBLWorks has created a resource site to provide teachers with ideas, examples, and free tools to facilitate PBL remotely.

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Neo LMS

JULY 29, 2021

Despite claims that technology is negatively affecting learning schedules, edtech is a valuable tool for students. With this understanding, the edtech industry should ensure that technology and remote learning are essential aspects of PD (professional development). Provide technology for effective teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And now, the company that helps groups of colleges—a “consortium” in Acadeum parlance—share online courses has raised a new round of funding to support its marketing efforts and woo more schools to its digital course-sharing consortia. Our goal is to be the biggest open network,” says Pierce, the company’s CEO.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The college counseling company at the heart of the “Varsity Blues” cheating scandal did more than just help students get into college through fraudulent means. It also had its employees pose as students to take online courses for them once they were enrolled, to make sure they passed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

In response, Coach throws up explanations, summarizes lessons, links videos and suggests further courses for the learner to check out. And it’s not the only high-tech strategy that Coursera employs to shepherd users through courses. Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Dozens of colleges and universities are taking courses in healthcare and medicine online—and making them free or low-cost—with massive online course platforms. More than a dozen universities are offering Coursera’s new healthcare courses. Courses in healthcare and medicine have been available online for years.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It may not seem too surprising that one of the best-funded edtech startups in the past year of pandemic has been a company that piggybacks on the success of Zoom to add tools for running online classes. The plan when the company started was to start with higher education and K-12 and later expand into the corporate learning market.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and this month they announced some answers.

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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. The program will culminate with a virtual Emerging Technology Showcase in collaboration with OMNIA Partners to increase visibility with education customers. Oblio, Inc. Quizard AI, Inc.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Today’s faculty is also tasked with something the school’s Jesuit founders could not have imagined: deciding not only which courses are taught but how to teach them—in person, online, or through a combination of both. Evenchik knew that delivering top-notch, online graduate-level courses required finding the right LXD team.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Chaudhary is co-founder of the education technology provider ClassDojo, which enables kindergarten through eighth grade students, teachers and parents to share content, schedules and feedback — an obvious and critical need as education abruptly became remote. This story also appeared in Ozy. Credit: Araya Diaz/Getty Images for TechCrunch. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2019

In the fall, Cooper will leverage those college partnerships to serve about 2,000 students on the platform by her company, Pathstream , which offers career-based certifications to college students. On a superficial level, they earn a certificate from a software company. They want career-oriented skills,” says Cooper, 30. “On

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

The leader of a company known for light-hearted lessons from celebrities is moving into more academic topics—and starting to offer college credit. Aaron Rasmussen, co-founder of MasterClass, this week announced the launch of Outlier, an online provider of university-level courses. Cudd told EdSurge in a statement.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

What does it mean to be human in a digital age? Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Two of the fastest growing and most highly valued education technology companies are going down the alphabet as they raise subsequent rounds at higher and higher valuations. This latest investment gives the Pittsburgh-based company a valuation of $2.4 To date, the company has raised $183 million in outside capital.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 17, 2021

A version of this post was originally published in Education Technology , on April 14, 2021. Covid-19 has given a boost to edtech and digital learning, and I believe this will last well beyond the pandemic. Besides the actual learning experience of students, there are aspects that affect more educational community stakeholders.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Tracy Mitrano , an attorney who used to be the director information technology policy at Cornell University , holds an opinion on the issue that’s common among academics. She believes there’s a lot at stake for higher education if net neutrality is reversed, especially when it comes to distance learning and hybrid education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

In the survey, chief online officers predicted that by 2025, programs and courses that mix on-campus and online learning experiences will become the norm for undergraduate students, graduate students and adult learners. It may also mean doing more to truly prepare students for online learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

When we focus our attention with laser precision on the edupreneurs who start new companies as the primary source of change, what do we miss? Much like slide projectors once replaced chalk as top-of-the-line educational tools, today’s intrapreneurs aim to shift our dependence on legacy technologies such as the standard LMS.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 16, 2020

The advent of the internet and the popularization of digital devices brought a new context for teachers and school administrators, since students started to bring technology to the school routine. The school, in turn, cannot turn its back on this new reality, but must incorporate educational technology into pedagogical practices.

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