EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There are a growing number of ways to help students push their technology interests further by earning industry-recognized certifications or using their digital schools for community service projects. Administrators should learn more about original equipment manufacturers’ certifications and self-maintainer policies.

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Digital Learning Digital Citizenship Mobility Learning 150

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. Vernier Software & Technology is providing free remote learning solutions to keep students engaged in STEM during school closures.

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STEM Resources Learning Software 370

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.” Lots of surveys out there show that the latest generation prefer to learn through video, through YouTube and TikTok.” If you have no idea what any of that means, that’s perfectly fine, good and normal.

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Tools Software Robotics Company 209

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Promethean® , a leading global education technology company, today at TCEA 2021 announced its ClassFlow platform had received iKeepSafe certification renewal. Our award-winning interactive displays and lesson delivery solutions transform learning and workspaces into creative, connected environments to foster collective success.

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Student Data Privacy Data Software Assessment 114

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today one of the largest providers of course-management software for colleges and schools, Blackboard, announced that it plans to merge with Anthology, a company formed last year from the combination of three other edtech companies. Blackboard is one of the largest LMS providers.

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Blackboard EdTech LMS Software 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This lack of interoperability results in a frustrating and fragmented experience, much like the challenges faced during our hypothetical movie night, and teachers and education leaders end up spending time on rostering rather than learning. It’s not just about allowing our companies to communicate with each other.

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Skyward EdTech Pearson Company 113

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Released at an October event on Capitol Hill, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the leading trade association for the business of information, released Principles for the Future of AI in Education , which will help the edtech industry as it works alongside educators during AI-infused learning.

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Pearson Education Industry Guidelines 118

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. The company says its tools are used by more than 30 million people across the education and corporate learning markets. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S.

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LMS Company Software Blackboard 151

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2022

According to researchers from the foundation, the participants in the study described problems with online trainings that were incompatible with screen-reading software or visual adjustments like changing the font size, with quizzes that didn’t work with a keyboard and with educational images and videos that weren’t verbally described.

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Online Learning E-rate Training Software 164

ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The metaverse is most commonly associated with extended reality technology (virtual reality and augmented reality), as well as with social media capabilities and the use of digital avatars controlled by users. Additionally, the use of avatars within the metaverse delivers something akin to student-centered learning.

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Learning Smartphone Accessibility Social Media 330

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Ideas to Promote Creativity in Your Classroom – Show Notes 1 – Make a Digital Learning Launchpad Hyperdocs.co Ideas to Promote Creativity in Your Classroom – Show Notes 1 – Make a Digital Learning Launchpad Hyperdocs.co Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it.

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Classroom Libraries Software Guidelines 272

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 13, 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. Vernier Software & Technology is providing free remote learning solutions to keep students engaged in STEM during school closures.

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STEM Resources Learning Software 195

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Even if you are just a beginner these products are easy to learn and implement. These companies did not pay me or ask me to write about them. Some charge for their software or are expensive to fix. These products also come with a great support team, support materials, lesson plans, and activities.

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STEM Learning Software Libraries 195

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Back in 2017, a startup named Coursetune began selling software tailored to a very particular niche: designing curriculum. How that company has grown and changed says a lot about the growth of online programs in higher education. The price of the sale was not disclosed.)

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LMS Company Software Course 143

Neo LMS

JUNE 25, 2019

Learning is more digital than ever and it will only continue in that direction. But along the advantages and immense potential of digital learning, threats are lurking in the binary universe as well. Digital security threats can come from new and unexpected sources. Today’s students are digital natives.

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Symantec Software Data Smartphone 334

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

For instance, it is filled with advertisements and there is no statement about how the advertisers impacted or influenced the study – but we know that they sponsored it, and they are edtech companies and commercial publishers, and therefore not uninterested parties. We have taken issue with other reports for similar issues.

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EdTech Survey Software Report 156

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Combine that with some of the dislocations triggered by COVID and students could be in for some radical changes in the tools that help them learn. The privately held company, which has raised $2.7 The privately held company, which has raised $2.7 Byju’s ambition: build “the biggest learning brand in the U.S.”

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EdTech Khan Academy Company Libraries 212

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This report isn’t about the software—it is about better practices to bring more robust engagement to our classrooms. Their research is intended to help us understand how to better use digital learning and teaching tools to maximize students’ success, which I’m sure many of you can agree has had its challenges this year.

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Student Engagement Report Policies Company 423

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2022

March 11, 2022 – Linewize , a division of Family Zone (ASX: FZO), a rapidly growing education technology company, announced today the acquisition of Cipafilter , a web filter and firewall dedicated to educators nationwide. K-12 market for over two decades, the company supports more than 400,000 students. SAN DIEGO, Calif.,

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Company EdTech Report Industry 102

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A growing number of companies now let students outsource their homework to a bot—or, more specifically, an algorithm that writes term papers for them based on chosen keywords. And some companies may be outputting low-quality papers on purpose in an effort to upsell the students to a human essay writer, she adds.

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Robotics Software Company Technology 178

Doug Levin

MAY 19, 2018

Largely unexamined in the large-scale shift to digital learning in education are the accompanying ethical considerations. are we teaching students to bend technology to their own goals – via coding or domains of their own – or to to merely dutifully click-through others’ software apps?)**. Transparency.

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EdTech Software Equity of Access Report 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2023

Just as colleges and universities have found themselves adapting to this environment in recent years and embracing digital learning, employers are increasingly rethinking their business strategies as technological changes impact how they think about, acquire and develop their employees.

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Data Digital Badges Trends Assessment 132

techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018

JUNE 26, 2018 In a move that enhances its mission of supporting education institutions and libraries, Education Networks of America ® (ENA) today announced that Dallas-based education technology company CatchOn, Inc has joined the ENA family of companies. For more information about CatchOn, follow @getcatchon or visit [link].

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Company Education Broadband Libraries 40

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S. started as a publishing category, where people would pay small amounts of money for books or CDs to learn a language.

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EdTech Chegg Mobility Company 161

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Companies that have been in the game for a while have been courtside in watching EdTech explode over the past 35 years. Even as schools and districts rushed to buy the new, hottest thing, to me the question has always been whether a given piece of tech actually held enough substance to improve student learning. By Tyson Smith.

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Education Software EdTech Comparison 147

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. There’s nothing glitzy about the software itself.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

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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Online Learning Blackboard Technology Learning 155

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. The company has subscription packages that reach $1,500 a year available for its asset libraries.

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Training Sony Robotics Company 106

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

No More Predictions One of the assumptions behind the Gates’ prediction is that the growth of instructional software will replace textbooks. When I told you about this type of software in previous letters, it was mostly speculative,” Bill Gates wrote in his annual letter this year. K-12 software will reach around $4.5

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 159

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2014

In this second installment, software engineer Ben Slivka finally ships his educational software but finds his real customer base isn’t what he expected. CHAPTER 20: Slivka’s Sci-Fi Software Gets Shipped. But digital learning doesn’t work that way. They were software writers, and good ones.

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Software Education Microsoft Company 62

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Hobsons , which offers a suite of software for college and career planning, admissions and enrollment, and student success and advising, will be broken up and sold in a pair of transactions totaling approximately $410 million. based company claims it serves more than 45 million students in more than 80 countries.

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Schoology Company Strategy System 159

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say. They’ve never been very strategic.

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 173

Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 7, 2022

Developing your own in-house software solutions can be a difficult proposition, considering the costs of IT infrastructure and resources involved. More and more organizations are now relying on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to provide them with the software solutions they need. What is Uptime and why it is important?

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Technology eBook Software Policies 52

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. Blackboard, a Reston, Va.-based LTG will pay $31.7

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Blackboard LMS Moodle Student Data Privacy 83

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And it's just another thing that you can have in the classroom that just kind of sparks a bit of interaction and kind of collaborative learning. But you point out that these days there’s plenty of software driven by artificial intelligence that has the flavor of a robot teacher. It's just part of what the software does.

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Robotics Software Google Examples 167

Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 7, 2022

Developing your own in-house software solutions can be a difficult proposition, considering the costs of IT infrastructure and resources involved. More and more organizations are now relying on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to provide them with the software solutions they need. What is Uptime and why it is important?

Technology 52

Technology eBook Software Policies 52