Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

That disconnect—between the importance of those early years, and the shortage of capital available for supporting programs—was part of what drove Neal Shenoy to launch BEGiN, an early-education media company, in 2012. To date, the New York-based company has raised $93 million. There is some research to support their popularity.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

The Tech Team also offers ongoing resume writing workshops, which allow learners to communicate their job skills and experiences through writing in a digital platform. Lorena explained, “Micro-credentials offer a way to legitimize your skills when breaking into a new role, company, or industry.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

There’s a high-stakes exam that’s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies. A new company is angling to bring online tutoring services to the skilled trades. The companies also double as bookstores.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The company has launched Gale Community For Educators , a new Facebook community designed with K-12 educators in mind. About Cengage Group and Gale Cengage Group, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

We called on industry experts and collaborated with different tech companies to provide technical support and workshops for students. To support this, I also collaborated with tech companies to fund the AI projects. Developing AI projects also required specialized skills, expertise, additional time and funding.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Japan has earned a reputation for exporting successful products and services from different industries. But when it comes to the education technology industry, few people outside the country can name Japanese companies off the top of their heads. A handful of Japanese edtech companies have managed to do that.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Their hope is that these programs will help pave the way toward the kind of supportive environment that education technology companies need to survive. Many of the most eager entrepreneurs were first timers—often very young people with little experience in building companies or even in teaching—but driven by a passion for education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Recent forecasts point to a growing industry. Aside from a handful of large operators like Bright Horizons, a publicly traded company, most programs are small businesses and home-based operations. In exchange, these companies take a cut of providers’ proceeds. In 2019, total U.S.

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techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Not only have the companies on the 2018 Inc. If your company is on the Inc.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Each company received $75,000 from Village Capital and $50,000 from ETS. One of these problems that ETS has identified—and invested in—has been popular among the edtech industry and its investors: Knack, based in Tampa, Fla. These two companies were identified through a competition that Village Capital has organized since 2009.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Happy Black History Month video : In this new video from Sesame Workshop for students in grades PK-2, Elmo, Gabrielle, Tamir, and Abby come together to celebrate the contributions of Black and African American communities. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

Air Force, DynCorp Aerospace, and the Boeing Company. Known for her industry expertise and no-nonsense approach in the classroom, Karen adeptly helps her students develop skills to succeed in the workforce. Coulombe delivered a workshop session at CERTIFIED 2023 titled, “Get MORE Value from Your Certification Investments.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Joining them are professionals from other industries who teach at nontraditional educational programs. That issue led to a class-action lawsuit and settlement involving General Assembly and two former instructors, who alleged that the New York City-based education company misclassified them as independent contractors.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

To do that, it is partnering with Games and Learning , a for-profit company, to build a new marketplace for online educational materials, particularly games. Last week, the company received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation and Research program to put that idea to the test.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

Exasperated school leaders request workshops to cope with widespread distress and disillusionment, which are spurring a mass teacher exodus. To do so, we can learn from other industries. It wasn't going remote that made these companies succeed in the face of adversity. Of course, educators can’t, and shouldn’t work from home.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

And we’re running one of our own: Immersion , a workshop for edtech entrepreneurs on the day before ASU GSV, on Mar. Green events are oriented around a specific product or company. Red events focus on the business and industry side of edtech more than pedagogy. Come by and say hello!)

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2019

This biannual conference calendar highlights the most popular stops in the higher education world, from the industry-friendly ASU GSV Summit to the practitioner-focused EDUCAUSE and WCET gatherings. EdSurge also regularly hosts meetups and workshops on online learning and higher education technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

Investing is humbling because we inevitably miss out on or pass on companies that go on to achieve great success in realizing their mission. based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. For Reach, they include Sesame Workshop and TAL Education, a Chinese education company. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2023

Yet those who have landed new positions — as all six former teachers interviewed for this story have — have been pleasantly surprised to learn their classroom skills are, in fact, quite transferable to other roles and industries. She continues to teach private music lessons and participate in workshops around the state. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For example, Margie’s company partnered with Sweet Briar College, which has faced dire financial straits in recent years, to facilitate alumni-to-student and alumni-to-alumni career networking support, including advice, mentorship, internships and jobs. Another initiative, Bridges Alliance , operated by PeopleGrove, plans to follow suit.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JULY 15, 2016

The only training or workshops I attended were those I got a grant for, applying on my own. I’m looking at how we as company can offer PD that resonates (and attracts buyers). At ISTE, I attended a Software & Information Industry Association breakfast focused on PD. I think about PD very differently.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At Sloan-sponsored summer workshops in upstate New York, some 20 years ago, I listened eagerly to pioneering faculty who imagined that virtual classes would be taught with radical education methods that had been proposed earlier by giants in progressive education—John Dewey, Jean Piaget and Paulo Freire, among others.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The job of preventing cheating at colleges can be especially tough when there is an aggressive industry selling students a variety of unethical assistance. You can read part one on the aggressive tactics used by companies, and part two on the response by colleges, and look for part three later this week.) That's not happening.

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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. Join us for a slice of the action! Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010. Indeed, $2.3 All Common Core testing will be done online.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

To date, the New York-based company has raised nearly $16 million. To be sure, Silver’s critique of the bootcamp industry centers around the fact that other providers have tried to expand brick-and-mortar locations to provide in-person training. million in Series A funding from Owl Ventures and Tribeca Venture Partners.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

What was once a sleepy conference at Arizona State University that charged $50 for attendance has now become ground zero for dealmaking in the education technology industry. (A It’s very easy to feel FOMO, across all the panels, keynotes, workshops, receptions and serendipitous meetings in the hallways. Investors: 65 to 400.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In the last several weeks, some tutoring companies, such as GoGoKid, have shuttered completely. What happens when a $120 billion industry disappears overnight is anybody’s guess, but companies and tutors are already scrambling to make contingency plans. She has since cleared out all of the props and extra lighting.

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Industry Company Training Facebook 169

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

Michael Simpson, the CEO of equitable hiring company Pairin, called it “microdata” while others referenced data that was more personal, but the point was the same. Panelists pondered how companies and researchers can get facts to education professionals on how these tools work. Can evidence even keep up with edtech?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. education industry has not become so dependent (yet). To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Based Company.

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EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 91

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The city of Pittsburgh, once defined by its steel industry, has built bridges with Carnegie Mellon University to equip its next generation with the necessary skills to keep the local economy thriving. As a result, venture capital in the region is at an all-time high and companies like Ford and Uber are setting up major research facilities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Over the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been delivering competitive advantage to businesses across a wide spectrum of industries. We encourage them to ideate and play around with some of the free tools that are out there,” says Sahota, who invited Anaheim’s school board to attend his final workshop.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2017

She entered Hackbright with almost no coding experience—something she thinks is becoming more rare in the for-profit bootcamp industry—and with little funds to pay the school’s tuition, which today is $16,570. We only find our students through [coding] workshops we put on with other community organizations,” she says. “I

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Accessibility Company Training Industry 81

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Companies] are trying to cut and paste solutions they built for one industry and sell them to teachers and administrators because they feel the market is hot. Virtually all of those companies, along with thousands of other venture-backed outfits during that time, turned into doo-doo. This approach won’t work. Here’s why.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

It also claims that the participants in its classes and workshops are 45 percent female, 48 percent underrepresented minorities and 47 percent on free and reduced-price lunch. Code.org Hadi Partovi believes that, to diversify a company, changing hiring practices and company culture are good starts.

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Facebook Education Industry Training 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

With less than a week until the storytelling-themed keynote kicks things off, we combed through the sessions, workshops and talks that will be filling our heads, and our Twitter feeds, in the days to come. Here’s his look at the five major trends impacting these companies—and why countries are launching their own platforms.

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MOOC EdTech Company Trends 79

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Gender is just one part of the diversity problem confronting many technology companies today. As diversity reports from companies like Alphabet, Apple and Facebook reveal, the employee headcounts—especially in senior and executive positions—are overwhelmingly male and white. And I want to run a video game company.”.

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