EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Some companies that produce monitoring software report sending tens of thousands of alerts about cyberbullying, violence, sexual content and other concerns. Those trends also include questions about how increased monitoring affects student privacy. . Striking a Balance Between Security and Privacy.

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Digital Citizenship E-rate EdTech Software 181

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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Education Company E-rate Industry 218

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the previous posts on this topic our examination found that technology can and does help when it comes to improving completion rates , reducing tuition costs and helping universities to bridge the revenue gap. It seems that technical training is less relevant here than e-learning course design.

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Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

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

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

On February 25th Casey Green and I met online for the third Future Trends Forum. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. Here is the full recording and my notes.

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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.,

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2022

Getting a jump start on career thinking in middle school, when academic performance often drops, is part of a growing trend. The efforts come at a time at a time when fewer Indiana students are going to college, part of a national trend. A recent report found Indiana’s rates at their lowest in recent history.

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E-rate Secondary Report Trends 102

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.

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E-rate Company Outcomes Analysis 83

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.

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Software Trends E-rate Coursera 102

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.

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Laptops Smartphone Course E-rate 205

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. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 48

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.

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 79

Brainscape

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The makings of great salespeople Companies hire salespeople because they’re go-getters, charismatic, can talk the talk, and bring the deals across the finish line. Salespeople waltz into their positions without the right product knowledge training, and the company’s sales funnel suffers. The result?

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Training Study Company E-rate 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

Tech Helpful

APRIL 5, 2018

E-parenting is not an easy task. 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. The green apps are made by companies that are working to look at for underage users.

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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.). educational devices sold run on the company’s operating system, up from 51 percent during the third quarter last year. Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds. million shipments from 5.7

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E-rate Chromebook Microsoft Tablets 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.”

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 126

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

Funds For Learning announces that the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) opened the E-rate filing window on January 15, 2021, and will accept applications until March 25, 2021. The 24th year of the E-rate program enters a new phase of regulations intended to increase equity and streamline the application process.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The most common goals for any project are: Attract more customers: these strategies should focus on increasing conversion rates and getting users to take a specific action (download an app, buy a product, subscribe to your newsletter, etc.). Especially in the field of e-commerce it’s a great help. Ease of use.

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Strategy Social Media E-rate Meeting 52

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2017

Most recently, one of the most widely-used education technology companies, Edmodo, had records for. Often they read about these incidents on the news before receiving official notice from the district or company. “We Fortunately, the company confirmed that no one else had accessed that data. over 77 million users compromised.

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EdTech Data Edmodo Company 84

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."

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Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

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. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 80

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.

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Tools Social Media Data Industry 26

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

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.

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EdTech Company Industry E-rate 151

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.

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Libraries Survey E-rate Report 146

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. At the leading edge of this national trend is San Francisco.

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E-rate Elementary Education Report 116

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Photo: Meghan E. The shift has coincided with improved test scores and graduation rates. “I And various technology companies — from no-name startups to behemoths like Pearson — boast of new programs meant to facilitate this style of education. A fifth grader works on a digital lesson as part of a blended learning program.

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

eSchool News Guides are full of resources, tips, trends, and insights from industry experts on a variety of topics that are essential to the classroom, school, and district. You also can find a complete list of digital and mobile learning partners and companies in the guide.

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Mobile Learning Mobility E-rate Robotics 40

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].

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

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. All the trends and all the advancements in education are based on living breathing people who want to make the world a better place. Edtech is always changing. Rebecca Stromeyer.

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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.). Pearson agreed. Reiser & J. New York, NY: Pearson Education.

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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? Being watched never does."

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EdTech E-rate Data Android 191

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? Being watched never does."

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EdTech E-rate Data Android 150

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

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. Have you followed the trends as far as people trying to do STEM education, and how legislation going into that?

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Report E-rate Technology Education 98

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.”

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Education E-rate MOOC Data 44