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Google Discreetly Acquires Edtech Analytics Company BrightBytes

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Google has silently acquired a widely-used K-12 data and analytics company. BrightBytes has a powerful platform that can securely integrate various data sources effectively and efficiently to provide useful visualizations and real time data for education leaders,” a spokesperson for Google said in the company's email to EdSurge.

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Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials

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These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. from the MIT Media Lab and has been working on design of educational materials for more than a decade, said it’s not that edtech companies don’t do any testing.

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How learning science informs edtech product development

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It’s no secret that the pandemic shift to remote learning resulted in boom times for edtech. Market intelligence firm HolonIQ expects global edtech spend to reach $300 billion in 2022 and up to $404 billion in 2025. We’re learning companies – we need to be receptive to constantly changing and learning.

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A Proctoring Company Tried to Sue an Edtech Critic. He’s Fighting Back in Court.

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The hearing will test what critics of the case say was a suit meant to silence concerns about a controversial edtech service. In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. Don't be a Proctorio partner.

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As Number of Edtech Providers Grow, Some Say Student Privacy Needs a Reset

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The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. Keeping a Safe Distance The companies that work with schools are aware of this concern. “Our

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How edtech supports teacher work-life balance and wellbeing

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One of the greatest lessons I learned as a former educator turned e-learning company leader is that an organization is only as successful as its employees. Why edtech is needed for teacher work-life balance and wellbeing. One of these changes is edtech. Read more: How edtech strengthens parental engagement in online learning.

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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. CLAS.U), a special purpose acquisition company headed by CEO Michael Moe, raised $225 million in its IPO. At the top of the iceberg, above the water, are the public companies, and that’s pretty limited.

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