Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 Still, companies looking to do business in China face a “tangle of issues.”.

Company 74

Company Coursera EdTech E-rate 74

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

28, children’s media company Moonbug Entertainment partnered with Outright Games to launch CoComelon: Play with JJ on Nintendo Switch. That’s part of a troublesome trend that may require more adult vigilance. The number of console games is a fraction of that, and console games for learning represents an even smaller slice of the pie.

Video 171

Video E-rate Mobility Tablets 171

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

On February 25th Casey Green and I met online for the third Future Trends Forum. We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Possiblye the FCC will extend E-rate funding to poorer areas. Providers are growing more features, each company or project following or leapfrogging the others.

Trends 40

Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. Unstable Economies Impact E-Learning Market. percent and negative 1.1

Report 70

Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Employees pay $1 a day to participate, and the company covers “tuition, books and fees,” according to an explanation of the program on the retail giant’s website. Gallagher says that past studies show that about five percent of employees take advantage of tuition benefits by companies. Walmart, the largest private employer in the U.S.,

Study 101

Study Pearson E-rate Training 101

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Imagine how many customers a company could get running 10 miles of fiber somewhere else. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

E-rate 54

E-rate Broadband Laptops Company 54

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms.

Software 100

Software Trends E-rate Coursera 100

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Good and Jere E. In recent years, we’ve been reading the headlines about how tech companies have dismally low numbers of women and minorities. Although companies readily acknowledge that they need more diversity, their stats aren’t changing. We do it all the time: A study from 1970 by Thomas L.

E-rate 81

E-rate Company Outcomes Analysis 81

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. There is still a digital divide in classrooms based on what technology is being used and how. Weekly Update.

E-rate 52

E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

Education 215

Education Learning Software Knewton 215

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

But experts who watch trends in teaching say that something is different now. B: increased respiration rate C: Decreased tidal volume D: Decreased diffusion of O2 across alveoli E: Increased carbon monoxide F: None of the above" Many students took a picture of the screen so they could refer to it as they thought through the answer.

Laptops 204

Laptops Smartphone Course E-rate 204

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. CMS is implementing Essential Physics in all 19 high schools that offer physics or honors physics courses.

CMS 65

CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 65

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

Online Learning 125

Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 125

Tech Helpful

APRIL 5, 2018

E-parenting is not an easy task. We live in a world where the access to technology is virtually ubiquitous. Recently I attended an e-parenting workshop at a local school here in Chattanooga and the speaker shared a great social media rating guide: This can be found at www.safesmartsocial.com.

Social Media 58

Social Media E-rate Android Company 58

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

(Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). Mike Fisher, associate director of education technology at Futuresource, said that the U.S. educational devices sold run on the company’s operating system, up from 51 percent during the third quarter last year.

E-rate 40

E-rate Chromebook Microsoft Tablets 40

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2017

Since then a slew of security breaches and malicious data hacks have hit educational institutions, including K-12 districts and their technology providers. Most recently, one of the most widely-used education technology companies, Edmodo, had records for. over 77 million users compromised. LeeAndra Khan, Middle School Principal.

EdTech 82

EdTech Data Edmodo Company 82

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven. Apple backed down. classrooms.

iPad 84

iPad Broadband Software Company 84

EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The marketing tools used to promote a company online are a significant component of the approach adaptable to companies of any size and operating in any sector. If your company uses software to help it find and categorize its social media followers, you must go deeper into your customers’ profiles.

Tools 26

Tools Social Media Data Industry 26

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. References Bjork, E. This requires aiming to be much more than the "Netflix of Education."

Education 60

Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Broadband 94

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 94

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. For some people, the policy shift had immediate consequences, as fortunes fell when stock prices for China’s giant edtech companies crashed. Photo by jianbing Lee / Shutterstock.

EdTech 149

EdTech Company Industry E-rate 149

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Among its recommendations, New America calls on policymakers to “expand the E-Rate Program so that libraries and schools can get discounts on the technology services that patrons and students need to get online from home.” Zoom-ing Out the Door The teacher shortage has been well documented. 2,200), U.S.

Libraries 142

Libraries Survey E-rate Report 142

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Photo: Meghan E. They gave each student access to technology that helps teachers customize their lessons. The shift has coincided with improved test scores and graduation rates. “I A fifth grader works on a digital lesson as part of a blended learning program. People associate repeating grades with disastrous consequences.

Trends 40

Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Thanks to — or because of — technology change happens at a faster rate than ever before, and education makes no exception. Edtech trends come and go. But any of what currently happens in edtech couldn’t be possible without the driving passion for education and technology of people. Edtech is always changing.

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Trends Microsoft 150

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (4th ed.). Networked Digital Technologies, Sharing, and Education.

OER 60

OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

On twitter, I also ponder the trend of tech-savvy teachers increasingly resembling NASCAR drivers, proudly wearing digital uniforms on social media full of sponsored messages as proof of expertise: Why do some in K-12 define #edtech expertise by # of tech company certifications acquired? Doug Levin (@douglevin) April 9, 2017.

EdTech 191

EdTech E-rate Data Android 191

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

EdSurge: In your opinion, what was one of the biggest education technology stories that readers might have missed last year? And there were a lot of questionable financial activities going on at the top, including the fact that the school's founder had started his own for-profit management company and gave it a no-bid $5 million contract.

Report 96

Report E-rate Technology Education 96

Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

On twitter, I also ponder the trend of tech-savvy teachers increasingly resembling NASCAR drivers, proudly wearing digital uniforms on social media full of sponsored messages as proof of expertise: Why do some in K-12 define #edtech expertise by # of tech company certifications acquired? Doug Levin (@douglevin) April 9, 2017.

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Data Android 150

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

they do boost graduation rates.). Via Campus Technology: “ CUNY to Train, Hire 2,000 Students in Free Coding Bootcamps.” Via Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy : “These Colleges Have The Worst Student Loan Default Rates In The Country.” ” More on the topic on his website , e-Literate.

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company.

EdTech 115

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 115

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. Edtech companies that fail to prioritize accessibility will be left behind. billion by 2022.

EdTech 145

EdTech Learning Data Classroom 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ’s CTO, Brian Pinkerton , is leaving the company.

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. National) Education Politics.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold.

E-rate 44

E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” The reason given: the registry used “‘rapidly aging technologies’ that do not mesh with other systems” – which is odd for what I thought was largely a metadata project. Tutoring company Knack has raised $1.5

Education 52

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 52