Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

With coronavirus cooping people up in their homes and disrupting businesses across every industry, buckle down for leaner times. On the flip side, investors like Sequoia have plenty of “dry powder,” the industry parlance for cash on hand. This is a good time for companies to build goodwill. Conserve cash. Reduce spend.

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Technology Education Company Industry 106

Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Here is an excellent example of an EdTech company that produces valuable content for educators.

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Software Classroom Coursera EdTech 195

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator. Real change can come from our unanimous stance against ineffective edtech, including predatory companies who make baseless claims in order to sell their products. We need to make a change.

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EdTech Dropout Advocacy Outcomes 299

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Providing courses to companies, and adults not enrolled in a full-time degree program, has long been a way for universities to extend their reach (and pockets) beyond the physical lecture hall. In 2013, MIT began offering online programs for working professionals to meet learners across the globe.

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MOOC Company Course Trends 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Next Wave 2017 was the latest in an annual, invitation-only meeting series run by Ithaka , the nonprofit group behind JSTOR, ArtStor, the PORTICO digital archiving and preservation service, and Ithaka S&R, which conducts research on higher ed and technology. We’re completely in charge of admissions.

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Meeting Libraries EdTech Conference 92

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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Coursera Course MOOC Company 116

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Transfr uses virtual reality to develop immersive career and workforce training simulations for industries such as manufacturing, carpentry, public safety, hospitality and automotive. In 2021, the company started working with several Boys & Girls Clubs in Washington State and Montana to tailor that training to K-12 students.

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Industry Training Company Trends 91

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. In essence, these opinions reflect what many people in the hospitality industry thought before AirBnB, or what taxi drivers thought before Uber. Skills gap.

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Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

In a recent study conducted by McKinsey & Company, statistical models based on academic studies estimated the potential influence of school closures on learning. Additionally, institutions must adjust their previous approaches toward the assessment of learning outcomes to meet the realities of today’s environment.

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Education Industry Training Strategy 192

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Pearson , the world’s leading learning company, today announces the creation of a new direct-to-consumer division as it looks to further strengthen its focus on building a direct relationship with learners around the world. ESPN/Disney and Turner Broadcasting.

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Pearson Company Strategy Industry 80

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses. This move to online learning is here to stay. Related: Colleges and universities are outsourcing services to for-profit companies.

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Education Coursera Trends Online Learning 123

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 97

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2019

This week for the podcast, we’re talking with someone who’s trying to build more “connective tissue” between academia and industry when it comes to reinventing college. That guest is Mitchell Stevens, a Stanford University professor who is the director of the Center for Advanced Research Through Online Learning.

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Industry Data System Meeting 135

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA). It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Related: Could the online for-profit college industry be a ‘winner in this crisis’?

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

edWeb.net

MAY 25, 2021

During the edWebinar, “ Educators Have Spoken… This Is What Industry Partners Need to Hear,” the speakers presented trends and observations from edWeb’s recent edFocus Industry Summit and offered advice for vendors on building and maintaining connections with their customers. Virtual sales meetings benefit both educators and vendors.

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Industry Trends Pearson Professional Learning 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Who Does Online Education Really Serve? Monday, March 4, 5 p.m.

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Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 103

eSchool News

JULY 7, 2020

With the purchase of Hoonuit’s courses and learning delivery system, Infobase meets educators where they are, providing the knowledge they need to take action and help their students—and themselves—excel.”. Closing Learning Gaps and Using Technology to Enhance Learning.

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Training Libraries Professional Learning Assessment 81

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2021

BURLINGTON, VERMONT, August 4, 2021 – InSpace , a leading online communication platform built by educators for educators, is announcing a full integration with Canvas, the industry-leading learning management system (LMS) by Instructure , which serves 30 million teachers and students worldwide. AA, WCAG 2.1 About Instructure.

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LMS Classroom Guidelines Mobility 67

Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

3D printing is already being utilized in a number of fields today, including aerospace and defense, the automotive industry and healthcare. For an education-focused 3D printing company, check out Printrbot, which wants to bring an affordable 3D printer to every school. It offers discounted pricing for educators to meet this goal.

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EdTech Khan Academy Tools Classroom 70

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Moody’s said students who might have otherwise transferred from a community college to an in-state institution might be enticed by the cheaper tuition, the convenience of online learning and the easy credit transfer policy and enroll at Southern New Hampshire instead. “It’s a dynamic, challenging environment.”

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Industry Report Secondary Course 71

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Across industries, demand for talent was booming. Early reports indicate that many blue-chip companies have begun to freeze or rescind hiring offers to graduating students. Consistent with past recessions, many companies are being forced to cut or freeze benefits such as 401(k) contributions. As 2020 kicked off, the U.S.

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Coursera Training MOOC Course 115

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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Data MOOC Conference Guidelines 122

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Jackson went on to say, “Through this partnership, millions of students will immediately have access to a state of the art platform that delivers our accredited, robust and rigorous curriculum in a way that is accessible and personalized to meet their learning needs.

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Learning Analytics LMS Schoology Learning 58

The Electric Educator

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Over 1,900 educators interested in online learning were in attendance. K-12 Online learning is in a state of great flux. Vendors have given large school districts what they asked for-- turn key solution for online programs. The problem is that these solutions are not meeting the needs of smaller programs.

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Online Learning LMS Chromebook Data 56

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

After all, these institutions embrace intimacy as central to their mission, with close, mentoring relationships between faculty and students, and deep, comradely connections among students—essential ingredients of highly engaged learning. For many, online fails to meet these crucial education ambitions.

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LMS Strategy Facebook Digital Learning 119

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI in education is used to enhance personalized learning experiences, streamline administrative tasks, and provide valuable insights into student performance. AI-powered adaptive learning platforms analyze individual student strengths and weaknesses, tailoring educational content to meet specific needs.

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Education Adaptive Learning Personalized Learning Gamification 52

Bryan Alexander

JULY 8, 2019

Cybersecurity threats, aging IT systems, increased demand for online learning and classroom technology, and difficulty attracting and retaining IT talent are putting pressure on many colleges, not just WCC. In addition, Teresa Hartman points to one process problem : Hospitality industry struggles with this.

Trends 107

Trends Laptops Technology Industry 107

Learning with 'e's

MAY 29, 2013

Industrial society eroded the tribal gatherings of more primitive societies and redefined community. Post-industrial society saw the emergence of personal computers, the Web and a global communication network of mobile phones. Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures: Cybercultures in Online Learning. Wheeler (Ed.) Wheeler, S.

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Social Media Facebook Industry LMS 64

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. Thousands more work for transportation companies that contract with public schools, colleges and private employers. Morton wipes the handrails after each student boards, and uses an industrial disinfectant on most of the bus once its empty.

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Guidelines Analysis Elementary Secondary 133

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. There are still a handful of timber companies in Onalaska, but the timber industry in Washington has been declining since World War II. That’s why everyone paid attention.”.

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Company Report Trends Study 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Her coalition of advocates in Nashville now meets remotely, every Friday morning. Having to shift to online learning because of the pandemic “has definitely affected our motivation,” said Emmanuella Agyemang, a 16-year-old junior at University Heights High School in the Bronx who plans to go to college and wants to be a journalist.

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 140

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. NovoEd raised $4.8

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Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 100

My Island View

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

There was no mention of follow-up research to determine how effective the PD was in improving or even affecting student learning in the classroom. I carried my concerns to another conference in NYC, The Software and Information Industry Association’s Education Business Forum (SIIA EBF).

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Conference Assessment Course System 51

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Candace, you're an early pioneer of using AI and adaptive-learning tools with the online learning initiative that you started at Carnegie Mellon University and now lead at Stanford. As Mark mentioned, this kind of approach is revolutionizing every other industry. To just say "Trust us.

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Data Adaptive Learning System Company 77

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. Eduverse.com is a revolutionary online learning environment providing a safe and secure ‘metaverse’ for K-12 schools.

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EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 138

Bryan Alexander

JULY 8, 2019

Cybersecurity threats, aging IT systems, increased demand for online learning and classroom technology, and difficulty attracting and retaining IT talent are putting pressure on many colleges, not just WCC. In addition, Teresa Hartman points to one process problem : Hospitality industry struggles with this.

Trends 40

Trends Laptops Technology Industry 40