Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Because it is from their mouths that these lies form the basis for policies and expenditures that have proven to be deeply damaging to education -- public education in particular. Cengage and McGraw-Hill announced a merger that would make the new company the second largest textbook publisher in the US. Good work, Adam and Rebekah.

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Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.) LearnLaunch’s Rudden says that since MAPLE is a partnership with the state department of education, it is subject to the state laws and must operate according to strict conflict of interest policies. Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a. This is wrong.”.

Personalized Learning 71

Personalized Learning Learning Moodle Secondary 71

The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

was about Schoology, a cool company I visited at the Illinois ICE conference. Lately, these moments seem to get lost under the sea of politics, budgets, and policy. There are companies that are leading the charge with innovative Web tools for teachers. This week my post on EdReach.us Why EdReach?

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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.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Within educational technology, tech companies can acquire data via multiple routes. Because these apps are built to be used outside of schools, the data collected by them is not considered an educational record under FERPA, and is therefore covered by the privacy policies and terms of service put in place by the app vendor.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “ School-Security Companies Are Thriving in the Era of Mass Shootings.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Office led by President Trump’s son-in-law holds a series of meetings on higher education policy, signaling high-level attention from the administration.” The company has raised $24.1

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E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. The US Department of Education announced it was launching “a pilot to test rigorously the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via Education Week : “ DeVos-Backed Company Makes Questionable Claims on Autism , ADHD.” ” “Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company , Filings Show,” The New York Times reports. ” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

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

JUNE 1, 2018

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. The assessment company has raised over $52 million total.

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