Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Enterprise, a battle droid, or a replica of the Elder Wand emblazoned with a slick company logo? No one would deny the coolness factor of the wand, but that’ll only take a product so far (and will probably bankrupt the company in legal fees). Or is it geekier swag—perhaps something that resembles the U.S.S. That may be a mistake.

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EdTech Survey Schoology Industry 103

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

My favorite example of the power of blended learning happened this winter, when snow forced Portland schools to close 10 days over two months, threatening to undermine learning. We turned to Padlet for collaborative, online work, FaceTime and Google Hangouts for discussions, and Schoology for sharing video and audio assessments.

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STEM Robotics Blended Learning Schoology 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

And with certain established companies like Pearson pulling out of the LMS ranks , where do you start? An example of a "narrative stream" on the Schoology LMS platform. A major function of most LMSs is that more than one type of person has access—educators, students and administrators, for example. We use Schoology.

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System LMS Schoology Social Media 100

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In late April, more than a month into COVID-induced school closures, Matt Goodwin, senior director of product management at Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, explained how the pandemic was upending his company’s development process. “We Learn more about this EdSurge Research project.)

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Company EdTech Course Schoology 183

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.) The idea that MAPLE exists to help LearnLaunch-affiliated companies sell products to schools “couldn’t be further from the truth,” says Klau. Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a. The fox is guarding the henhouse,” the MTA letter reads. This is wrong.”.

Personalized Learning 75

Personalized Learning Learning Moodle Secondary 75

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Exactly how many schools are actively engaged in iZone projects is unclear: The NYCDOE press office disclosed that 50 schools abandoned the iZone’s iLearn program between 2015 and 2016 to develop their own blended and online learning materials or to use outside resources including Google Classroom, Schoology, or Canvas.

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iLearn Policies Blended Learning Schoology 64

Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Within educational technology, tech companies can acquire data via multiple routes. BetterLesson is an example of a site like this - a teacher creates an account, and only teacher data gets collected. A very incomplete list of examples here include Knewton, Infinite Campus, eScholar, Schoolnet, Learnsprout, or Clever.

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Data Edmodo Policies Knewton 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A recent New York Times investigation found that many companies receive such precise, extensive data on their users that they—and anyone else they share this information with—could easily identify a single individual and pinpoint their location. If we want to raise the bar, we need to make sure these companies understand,” he says.

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Tools Policies Data Android 127

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Twelve years ago, Amplify CEO Larry Berger and I wrote about the “ pareto distribution ” of companies in the K-12 sector. Most revenue was generated by a few winner-take-all companies, then there was a long tail of subscale operators. And a new, growing class of companies may soon join us. We broke through in different ways.

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 83

edWeb.net

MARCH 22, 2023

One site, for example, might have tables, desks, and chairs. For example, one side of the room might be for technology, where students can use interactive panels or find Chromebooks and iPads. For instance, are instructions clear in Google Classroom or Schoology?

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Technology EdTech Schoology Learning 76

Edthena

APRIL 14, 2021

Our families, our local government, our business partnerships value education and so we know, especially being in a highly tech-savvy area with lots of startups, lots of entrepreneurial tech companies, that our students needed those skills. Let’s do an example. Do you know what I mean? Kevin Hogan: Yeah.

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Video Training iPad Technology 59

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For example, Nidy produced how-to videos to help educators use Schoology for setting up quizzes, assignments, etc. For example, principals shared school and community video updates with parents, and more parents participated in parent-teacher conferences because they were online. Communication and Parent Engagement.

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Video Learning Schoology EdTech 52

Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

A fabulous example of our healthy capitalist economy working its magic. Or maybe the company it’s using for its predictive analytics programs – EAB, I think – does and that’s why we’re hearing all these stories. ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology.

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Education Kaplan Robotics Schoology 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. You might read the signals of the health of ed-tech startups in the departure of their founders – both from leadership positions and from their companies altogether. Daphne Koller left Coursera this year.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40