Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into higher education to address challenges such as personalized learning and operational efficiency. While AI has the ability to enhance personalized learning experiences, there are concerns about the quality of education delivered through AI-driven platforms.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. Having the technology necessary to access online learning opportunities isn’t enough.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Online and blended learning have become powerful solutions to improve students’ access to a high-quality education, regardless of their life circumstances, socioeconomic status or zip code,” said Thom Jackson, President and CEO of EdisonLearning. “As

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

This will take many forms, from institutions evolving their operations to students optimizing their learning with technology to caregivers connecting directly with their children’s education through edtech services. Forrester estimates that data-driven businesses are growing at an average of more than 30 percent annually.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This week’s newsfeeds are stuffed with announcements for finalists and honorees for both educators and vendors on the best and brightest developments for teaching and learning. The winners: Of course, we need to start with the most prestigious!

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, for its remote learning classes, the Paris School of Business is using software called Nestor to track students’ eye movement and facial expressions through their laptop webcams. Her firm helps companies develop technology for young people that is compliant with safety and security concerns. “If

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In recent years, the nonprofit has invested in several education technology efforts around learning analytics and adaptive learning. million investment in Smart Sparrow , a company that offers a platform used by many higher-ed faculty members and instructors to develop online, adaptive courses and simulations.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

EdisonLearning provides digital learning solutions, including core and elective eCourses for grades 6-12. This partnership expands its ability to support more schools and districts nationwide, increasing delivery of personalized learning and supporting equitable achievement for all students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2018

But they hope to create a process that others can use, and to push edtech companies to more closely follow standards so that there’s less cleaning work needed. Handing Over Datasets The first hurdle has been convincing tech companies to share the data at all. One is going to shape the other,” he argues.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

These are computer screens, akin to a dashboard in a pilot’s cockpit, that visually depict students’ progress as they learn online and flag areas of concern that a teacher can address. If only teachers can be more informed during class about things they can’t normally easily monitor, then students might learn better.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

Renaissance Learning , provider K-12 cloud-based assessment and learning analytics, announced a major new alliance with ClassLink , provider of single sign-on and rostering solutions for schools. Renaissance Learning is a standout among cloud-based assessment and learning analytics providers.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

During an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate , Eric Butash, Director of Education Technology and Data Integration for the district, discussed how they used data analytics to build their personalized student learning pathways. First, the district built a data governance team. About the Moderator.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. While students may have an almost subconscious ability with social media, many are quite dysfunctional when it comes to leveraging online tools for hard, in depth research and learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

School leaders expect students and teachers to be using their licensed apps all the time, says Ryan Baker, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Learning Analytics. Many apps, independent of how long or often students use them, have no relationship to learning outcomes. A new report that analyzes 1.48

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 29, 2019

The book is aimed at those working as learning and development professionals in industry, but will also be of interest to any, and all, those working in the world of learning technology, knowledge and education. The promotional text is below: Technology holds vast potential for learning and development (L and D) practitioners.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those developers, whose company TeacherGaming pivoted sharply after Microsoft took over MinecraftEdu two years ago, are facing tough times—and laying off staff—as they try to craft a niche in a crowded educational gaming landscape that has struggled to attract broad interest from schools. That marked a momentous turning point for the company.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. 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.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The acquisition represents the value that Renaissance, one of the largest assessment and learning analytics companies in the K-12 market, places on a relative newcomer. Assessment Ed-tech Renaissance Learning assessments instructionalmaterials jacklynch renaissancelearning taggingcontent uclass zakringelstein'

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IAD Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Our adaptive learning and e-Learning analytics product, IADLearning, got featured on an interview at E-LEARN magazine given by our Research and Development Director, José Antonio Omedes. These elements are the main drivers of the interview by E-LEARN magazine which focuses around adaptive learning technology.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Udemy, the world’s largest destination for learning and teaching online, today announced that the recently launched LenovoEDU community by Lenovo will offer Udemy content and pathways to course recommendations for specific careers. Udemy for Government is designed to upskill workers and prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. based company wants to thwart. The company, however, does not want students to use its site to get tutors to do their work for them. And it’s what the Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

It’s also a time when companies of all sizes and ages announce their latest updates and tools. Our bread and butter has always been middle school ELA,” a representative from the company explains. “Our Our bread and butter has always been middle school ELA,” a representative from the company explains. classrooms. “As

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

The post The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Right now, tech companies own AI. These companies have HUGE data mines, which will only make AI more powerful. Providing personalized student learning is wonderful, but at what cost?

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

And that’s forcing companies and colleges around the globe to reevaluate their data policies and practices. The law also requires that companies get explicit consent from users before sharing data, and includes many other data protections as well. residents honor the right of individuals to have their information removed. institution.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A pair of consultants who run a popular edtech blog plan to start offering events—in hopes of getting people at colleges and companies who don’t usually talk to each other to join forces on innovative teaching efforts. Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.”

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

Meanwhile, McGraw-Hill Education and AT&T unveiled plans to offer new resources and opportunities for ed-tech start-ups: McGraw-Hill Education Partners with LearnLaunch: McGraw-Hill Education and Boston-based LearnLaunch are partnering to promote innovation in education through the development of learning technology.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The rise is also due to people''s desire to develop their learning informally. There are formal contexts for mobile learning, but it is in the leisure time/travelling/down time that mobile learning still comes to the fore. Such large data sets can conceivably be sold on for a sizeable profit to companies who are interested.

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Neo LMS

MAY 26, 2016

Online education comes with higher interactivity between students and teachers and learning materials, and also more feedback. The success for entry-level employees is based a lot on their ability to gain in-depth knowledge of new subjects, research and analyze data, and apply learning in real world situations.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.). This should not come as a surprise.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

From textbooks to tests and from research papers to group projects, public education is in the midst of a sea change in how it provides learning opportunities to its students, in the tools it offers, and in what it expects its educators and students to use.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. Despite these drawbacks, the company has an interesting repository of technology usage from roughly 400,000 students, kindergarten through high school, across 26 states. Apps are increasingly common in U.S. BrightBytes Inc. That’s less than a half hour a week.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The next best option, typically, is to be acquired by another company, in exchange for cash or stock options. For curriculum management startup UClass , which was acquired last year by Renaissance Learning , the relationship has been less than symbiotic, demonstrating there are growing pains even after a company has “exited.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Researchers at the K-12 learning analytics company produce the report, which provides the comprehensive review of students’ reading habits and achievement.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

Schoolie’s school quality data will be incorporated into GreatSchools’ website in the coming months, and “will help parents more efficiently compare and evaluate academic rigor and understand how well schools provide access to a well-rounded education,” the companies noted in the statement. The amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

In addition, investment company Weld North Holdings acquired Performance Matters , a student assessment and data-analytics company that it will merge with K-12 ed-tech business Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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