Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

“With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. In the first half of 2020, U.S.

EdTech 195

EdTech PresenceLearning Company Trends 195

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

While I taught one group of students how to find the main idea of a text, the others applied reading skills they had learned with me by completing assignments in Google Classroom and adaptive software that allowed them to advance at their own pace. But there is some research supporting its impact on learning outcomes when executed well.

Learning 218

Learning Software Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 218

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Instruction that aligns with districts’ standards, scope, and sequence. Standards-aligned, high-quality instructional materials to support grade-level learning. Carnegie Learning’s high-dosage tutoring services include: Live tutors who are all certified teachers with deep content and pedagogical knowledge.

Learning 111

Learning Instructional Materials Professional Learning Meeting 111

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Four, we must ensure that all instructional materials – no matter their form or medium – remain available for public inspection and review. There simply is no room for instructional black boxes in public education. Students should not have to trade their privacy in exchange for a free, high-quality public education.

Instructional Materials 150

Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. It proves that there is appetite among investors for helping education companies serving the European market.” As a result, companies that focus on selling to schools are not seeing as much growth as their counterparts in the U.S., In the U.S.,

EdTech 127

EdTech Coursera Company Industry 127

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For her Schoolzilla company to continue to grow, it needed a larger sales division. based company up for acquisition talks. Schoolzilla, the company perhaps best known for its Mosaic dashboard product, has found a new home with Renaissance Learning , a Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc. The company claims to service a third of U.S.

Data 83

Data Assessment Company Learning 83

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ClassVR, the company’s solution, is a full turnkey VR and AR offering for classrooms, teachers, and education. With itopia Labs, educators can provide anytime, anywhere, any device access to software applications that students commonly use for Career Technical Education (CTE) and various certification programs.

EdTech 136

EdTech Tools Resources Robotics 136

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

She emailed the company to learn that it was not. “It Horton, who teaches math and writing to fourth- and fifth-graders at Fremont Elementary School in Springfield, Missouri, says this is the first program that she and a coworker have found that meets their needs for math and writing instruction.

Tools 90

Tools Company Instructional Materials Tablets 90

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. By Kenna McHugh.

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Training Instructional Materials Blended Learning Groups 153

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Some states, such as Nevada, also restrict the use of state supplemental academic intervention funds to programs that meet federal research standards and are elevating the importance of evidence-based and high-quality instructional materials. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

Policies 140

Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 140

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2018

In other words, as the business reaches more students, the company generates higher revenue and more value—financially and with social impact. Schools were unhappy with both the cost and the quality of the instructional materials available. Sometimes a CEO has to take a company in a new strategic direction.

Outcomes 78

Outcomes Education Company Broadband 78

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

And edtech companies cater to this fragmentation in their product design and marketing. Curriculum and instructional materials live on websites, in the cloud, on paper, in LMS’s, in Google Drive or OneDrive. It’s as if you’re furnishing your house one piece at a time with no thought to how they fit together.

EdTech 160

EdTech System Data Company 160

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Absent checks on real and potential biases, errors and omissions, students’ future educational prospects are being shaped by software. Leave this field empty if you're human: We need to ensure that all learning materials — including software — are subject to public inspection by taxpayers and parents of students assigned to use them.

Software 51

Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 51

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

in English literature and was the lead reviewer in a December 2019 study of online instructional materials. “But you have to have the excitement of digging into the text. ” Teachers Pay Teachers is one of the most popular sites for all kinds of materials. teachers use it, according to the company.

Study 111

Study Common Core Company Differentiated Instruction 111

techlearning

APRIL 19, 2018

NYSE: RST) Company, today announced that Lexia Reading Core5® has been named by the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) as an approved provider of early interactive reading software for literacy instruction and assessment for grades K–3. BOSTON (April 19, 2018) – Lexia Learning, a Rosetta Stone Inc.

Assessment 40

Assessment Education Software Differentiated Instruction 40

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. See also: Fast-Growing Private Education Companies Make Inc.

Kaplan 40

Kaplan Company Data Industry 40

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

Educators agree that all students deserve access to all instructional materials. A screen reader is an accessible technology device used by people with vision impairments to navigate computer software. Faculty are the ones in the trenches developing content and activities for students.

Accessibility 60

Accessibility Course Learning Company 60

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, April 25, 2018 — Summit™ Math , a curriculum of adaptive online math courses from Fuel Education ®(FuelEd®), and Stride ™, FuelEd’s supplemental learning solution for skills practice for students in PreK–8 grade, were both selected as winners in The ComputED Gazette ’s 24th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES).

Adaptive Learning 40

Adaptive Learning Instructional Materials Course Blended Learning 40

Marketplace K-12

JULY 26, 2016

. “This will be more true than ever going forward,” Hoverman told more than 125 education business leaders attending the event sponsored by the Education Technology Industry Network of the Software & Information Industry Association.

Differentiated Instruction 40

Differentiated Instruction Industry Instructional Materials Google 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Safely getting back to the classroom requires many new precautions, and in 2021, innovations in technology such as digital signage software and content management will play a major role. Justin Reilly, CEO, Impero Software. John Wheeler, CEO, Vernier Software & Technology. Mike Teng, CEO and Co-Founder, Swing Education.

EdTech 145

EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Software & Online 3DBEAR AR INNOVATOR PROGRAM ( 3dbear.io/product/ ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement.

Tools 52

Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Most educators and students are not technology professionals and prefer classroom solutions that are simple to use and easily work with the various programs, software and other hardware which educators have grown accustomed to. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

Trends 144

Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 21, 2016

The market for digital instruction materials will likely grow by $1.1 Last year, funding for ed-tech companies in China doubled, for instance. Gates Foundation to Keep Betting on Software to ‘Revolutionize’ Learning. . “We have to see why,” he said. Billion Market Predicted. alone, Gates predicted.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Industry Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

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.

Industry 89

Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 89

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Artificial intelligence/augmented reality: It seems everywhere we look companies and products are announcing their new integrations with AI or AR/VR. In talking to these companies, there seems to be a moment of opportunity and flexibility as the number of educational AI tools that are out there multiply.

EdTech 136

EdTech Industry Data Tools 136

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Most educators and students are not technology professionals and prefer classroom solutions that are simple to use and easily work with the various programs, software and other hardware which educators have grown accustomed to. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

have received billions of dollars in combined donations and gifts from private companies and individuals. Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S.

Technology 182

Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 182

Doug Levin

MAY 6, 2017

This is how everyone should want companies to respond – in education and beyond – when presented with evidence of a potential security incident. After all, all software has bugs and can be exploited, and one test of the mettle of a technology company is how well it monitors and responds to incidents.

Google 150

Google Microsoft Education Software 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies churned out crisis plans for remote instruction in hopes of carrying on, at the very least, until summer break. When COVID-19 forced the mass closure of schools across the U.S. But this goes well beyond simply capturing attendance data.

Data 214

Data LMS EdTech Accessibility 214

The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I receive countless emails during a given week from vendors of software, textbooks, and other instructional materials. Recently, a vender sent me an email for some redial reading software and in that email was the claim to be “research-based.” The truth is, I can’t help but be skeptical.

Instructional Materials 40

Instructional Materials Software Study Company 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

A growing number of peer-reviewed studies and other research reports are demonstrating that when faculty who previously used commercial products as their core instructional materials replace them with OER, student learning either stays the same or increases. But who chooses the core instructional resources students will use?

OER 60

OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2017

This could really truncate a lot of decisions about buying technology, software or subscriptions.” To survive shrinking school budgets education companies must, now more than ever, make a robust show of their product’s efficacy—something that few have been able to demonstrate convincingly.

EdTech 94

EdTech Education Company STEM 94

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

She agrees to use their products in her classroom and give the companies feedback. To reporter Singer, Delzer is an instance of the blurred boundaries that tech gurus like this teacher face in helping students, other teachers and districts to integrate software and hardware in creative ways and, at the same time, earn extra money.

Social Media 78

Social Media Facebook Instructional Materials Report 78

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Texas , a Prized K–12 Market , Approves Wave of Instructional Materials.” Rather Harvard has outsourced instruction to the for-profit company Trilogy Education. Short-term-jobs-for-students company Student Pop has raised $3.4 ” But it’s not Harvard.

Education 54

Education MOOC Report Data 54