Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

From idea to scale, Catapult helps companies shape, develop and deploy innovative, proven solutions to meet critical educational challenges. After the pandemic, the edtech market exploded with new products and services, and investment flowed freely. Global edtech funding plummeted 49 percent from 2021 to 2022, falling to $10.6

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Companies like to talk about their journey in raising money and growing over time, and one waypost for such journeys is to reach the ringing bells of a stock-market debut. heard those bells today, as the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange—though the initial price ended up on the low end of expectations.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher’s 19-page two-lesson plan bundle to teach about Martin Luther King (click for more information) is 66% off January 12, 2024 through Jan. If you’re an edtech company interested in helping spread Ask a Tech Teacher resources to everyone, contact us at askatechteacher@gmail.com. We love sponsors!

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2023

When teachers pack up their classrooms for the last time to start their edtech careers, where exactly are they going? Former educators told us they had moved on to become UX designers, part of sales teams and founders of their own edtech companies. Edtech is not going to be the solution for every teacher,” she says.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2023

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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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

Keeping it simple and to the point makes it easier for parents to cut through the noise of information overload. For example, if you need to communicate factual information , do it via email. 4 Great ideas for boosting parent engagement through edtech. Edtech tools need to be intuitive and easy to use.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Navigating this evolving landscape, edtech founders are confronted with many challenges in taking their products to market. Edtech startups rapidly launched and scaled solutions, ranging from mental health supports to online proctoring tools. Virtual classrooms became the norm. Evidence-based solutions.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. Taking a more critical look at edtech. We need to make a change.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2021

I’m the CTO of a tech company and for more than five years I have been busy with teaching programming courses and sharing my expertise with novice specialists. 6 Edtech Trends to Keep an Eye On. That’s vital for some organizations and companies to keep the level of the workers. Provide 24/7 assistance to the students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

based Interfolio aims to help simplify the workflow for faculty with software it dubs “faculty information systems.” And the idea has caught the attention of investors: Insight Venture Partners is slated to acquire the DC company for more than $110 million, the Washington Business Journal reports. Washington D.C.-based

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Where edtech steps in While the student population speaking languages other than English within the U.S. Now, edtech can support bilingual education in a way impossible before. Thankfully, we are at a place where edtech can significantly reduce the cognitive load placed on teachers.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This blog post is the second of a two-part series discussing relationship building in the edtech purchasing process. In our first blog post , we addressed how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. As an edtech vendor, you should do the same.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Seven years ago, as more software companies began offering Software as a Service, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey jumped on the emerging cloud trend. That first app led to another, and then another.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 24, 2023

Last month, a lawsuit was filed by California parents alleging another online monitoring software company illegally collected students’ personal data, including location data, without their consent and sold it to third-party vendors. COPPA applies to the online collection of personal information by persons or entities under U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When did October become awards season in the world of edtech? “Now in its third year, the Supes’ Choice Awards have become known in the education industry as one of the top honors recognizing forward-thinking edtech companies,” said Doug Roberts, founder and CEO of the Institute for Education Innovation (IEI).

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

Unsolicited and ill-informed advice on how experts should do their job rarely lands well. Just because edtech companies work outside of the classroom doesn’t mean they can’t position themselves as a support system inside the classroom. This allowed team members to better understand teachers’ challenges.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. What are the projections for edtech? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This week on the podcast we’re talking about cybersecurity at schools—and how secure, or in some cases how vulnerable, the tech systems in school systems are these days. Essentially these are the computer systems that store grades and the student records of his school. At least he tried to.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2020

Two private equity firms are combining three education technology assets into a new company—one that its CEO jestingly likens to a “greatest hits album” of software for higher-ed institutions. At least the company’s name, Anthology , is fitting for that description, says Jim Milton, who will serve as its chief executive.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Endless Network , a global organization dedicated to promoting equity and accessibility, invests strategically in companies worldwide to address challenges such as limited access to quality education. This article focuses on one of those organizations, Learning Equality. billion people worldwide without internet access.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Its goal is to not only provide schools the resources they need to pick equitable ed tech products, but also to hold ed tech companies accountable for tools that could negatively affect historically underrepresented students. Hebbar said tech companies’ claim that they don’t track race because of data privacy issues is a cop-out. “If

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

The company’s newest feature, Classroom Alerts, is a powerful solution in the event of an emergency. With Classroom Alerts, schools can broadcast emergency alerts to classroom wireless presentation systems like Airtame, and interactive flat panels like SMART, Clear Touch, Newline, ViewSonic, and more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Last summer, when I was working for ThinkCERCA, which helps students develop critical thinking skills through reading and writing, the edtech startup was facing a big decision: should it try and break into the lucrative Chinese market? company that has eyed Asia as the next big market. ThinkCERCA is definitely not the first U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. In an email sent Tuesday morning, the company notified customers to plan for a replacement for the Illuminate Student Information product, also known as ISI. Illuminate , based in Irvine, Calif.,

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N2Y

JUNE 8, 2021

Huron, Ohio— Business Wire n2y, the leader in special education, today announced Unique Learning System ® has been selected as the winner of the Overall EdTech Solution of the Year award in the third annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program. About EdTech. For more information, visit EdTechBreakthrough.com.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

The “attempted security incident” this month knocked out many of Illuminate Education’s digital services, including an online gradebook, Skedula, and a related parent-focused platform, PupilPath, which are used by New York’s public school system. And companies have not always been candid when they’ve experienced a significant attack.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

But as someone who has long helped entrepreneurs enter and grow within the edtech space, I can say that turning a good idea into a working innovation that helps educators and students remains a challenge. The local ecosystem we grew our companies within changed as families and institutions became unmoored and fragmented.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2024

But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson. He says his team spent about five years trying, and along the way they helped build some small-scale attempts into learning products, such as a pilot chatbot assistant that was part of a Pearson online psychology courseware system in 2018.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2024

Charlotte, NC — Arizona’s Apache Junction Unified School District (AJUSD) today announced a new collaboration with global edtech leader Discovery Education supporting innovative teaching and learning in the district. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2019

There is a vast array of platforms available to schools and educators, which can make it difficult to stay abreast of protocols for disclosing personal information, especially when using third-party applications. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how data privacy concerns are expanding with education technology use.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Zywicki has more than a decade of experience leading, scaling, and building education companies. Before that, Zywicki co-founded the software company Ranku in 2013, which built two-sided marketplaces for state systems to increase student enrollment. . For more information, visit [link]. Chamber of Commerce.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

supporting ChalkTalk’s investment in EdTech ecosystem integrations which will expand its product offering from 11th grade ELA & Math all 12-grade levels. Unlike other systems that are solely focused on asynchronous learning, our personalized learning solution mirrors existing class flow which is teacher-led instruction.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2021

For educators, finding high-quality products in an enormous edtech market is challenging. Educators’ plates are already full, which can make the time-consuming task of vetting edtech tools feel overwhelming. Product companies need third-party, external validators to be trusted by edtech decision makers, purchasers, and users.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 21, 2019

Quick Take: Getting an accurate view of where your school is in terms of readiness for EdTech innovation is important. Is your school ready for the EdTech revolution? Edtech promises to bring learning from chalkboards to slick computer screens and more. In the US alone $1.45 How will your school adapt? How ready is your school?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 6, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Post-pandemic, districts are looking to eliminate the edtech bloat and determine which products they should keep and which ones to scale back. Of course, educators and administrators could look at past success stories, research data, etc. But what about how the programs are impacting current students?

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