Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

ISTE is traditionally known for its annual edtech conference, which draws as many as 15,000 people each year. In addition, the organization has announced a new platform to review technology tools and a framework for implementing edtech in the classroom.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Some of them are developing their own courses to train workers in the skills the company needs. Go with a company that offers great customer support. Take some time to analyze the morale of the company that’s serving you, and see if they will be there when your team needs help. In higher education, a lot’s at stake.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. Rethink Education , an edtech investment firm based in White Plains, N.Y.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? At least, in theory. And that raises questions. Could both answers be true? That includes higher education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2021

Udemy has become one of the best-funded companies in edtech, having raised another $80 million earlier this year, bringing its total raised to nearly $300 million. The company lets anyone create and offer an online course on its platform, which has become the largest of its kind. First, some background.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Parent builds edtech. We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. Pandemic closes school. Students go home. Remote classes falter. Child is disengaged. That vision has investors feeling stoked.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! It’s the eighth startup project for CEO Cy Megnin, who’s raised $500,000 for the company so far. Based in London, SAM’s 28-person team raised $4.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

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. He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

They were incredibly hardworking people, but the ones creating the most significant social impact in the world were also often too busy to finish a MOOC. A few companies are heading that way. I could hardly blame them. University campuses are integrating Kaltura into their LMS platforms to enable students to capture and upload videos.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

Like tech stocks in general, edtech has taken a nosedive over the past six months or so. The news might lead you to think edtech’s future is marked by doom and gloom. It showed the industry, Batra says, that consumers have become agreeable to purchasing edtech. Just in the U.S., The tight labor market seems to be easing up.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

And so he began building a prototype for an automated online grading tool that today has grown into his company, Gradescope. Other efforts such as MOOC platform edX’s Enhanced AI Scoring Engine have similarly tried to use automation to reduce the time educators spend on grading. Singh’s company takes a slightly different approach.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Almost all of those companies went out of business. Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. The list goes on and on.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Almost all of those companies went out of business. Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. The list goes on and on.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype? EdSurge 4:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

The first step is, of course, designing and building better systems to capture this sort of data, which really isn’t being done at scale. More importantly though, as we build these systems, we need to keep the end-goal in mind — better learning, and constructive and actionable feedback for students. Technology #edtech assessment'

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

While online education companies offer engineering, programming and business skills, one company wants to make sure that the fine arts isn’t being left behind. based company offers 50 classes from flagship schools like Columbia and Stanford. Launched in June 2015, the Valencia, Calif. Launched in June 2015, the Valencia, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I first became involved in edtech as CEO of Xythos, a content repository system that was one of the first solutions that allowed universities and K-12 systems to have cloud based file sharing and storage. It was also licensed as the core of Blackboard’s content management system. It allows me to put the ‘Ed’ in NovoEd.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

education technology companies raised $1.45 edtech startups in 2017. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. For edtech companies able to show consistent growth and revenue, that should be welcome news.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

In its current form, our higher-education system amplifies and solidifies national inequities, when it could do the opposite. Products: Our current Edtech Index catalogues mostly products designed for the K-12 community. To tell stories about how edtech can support a broader transformation in institutions and in the higher-ed system.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But that hasn’t stopped us from asking a number of experts in education and technology to gaze into their crystal balls and share their thoughts on one major EdTech trend we can expect to see lighting up learning and one major challenge that education will face in 2016. Technology and the classroom – major trends and challenges.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Edsurge : “ Sir Ken Robinson ’s Next Act: You Are the System and You Can Change Education.” million total.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Some of these courses are offered through the university system, but many others are made available outside of traditional academia. Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

How to learn more about edtech options. When it comes to professional development for educators, it’s vital to learn about the edtech options available. Read more: 8 Edtech organizations every teacher should know about [INFOGRAPHIC]. Sample popular edtech tools. Enroll in an online program. Attend an annual event.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In fact, if you Google “rainbow starburst bracelet” and the official video from the company has been viewed a fraction of the times. As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. However, in the last few years, higher education has listened to the world of MOOCs and started changing.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. And it has.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Dreamit Edtech network to get their “lemon lists” of concepts, statements, and business models that edtech entrepreneurs may want to think twice—or thrice—about. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. These developments will have important implications for colleges and universities, training and skills providers, edtech firms and investors and other stakeholders in the education ecosystem.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” It’s like the MOOC crap all over again. ” asks The Atlantic.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. A Wi-Fi system. Raise $146.1

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via Mother Jones : “How the Justice Department Is Trying to Dismantle Georgia ’s Segregated Special-Education System.” Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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