Optimize EdTech ROI with the 2024 EdTech App Report
Lightspeed Systems
APRIL 25, 2024
Lightspeed Systems’ 2024 EdTech App Report provides data insights to benchmark digital learning acquisition and evaluation processes.
3 SEO Strategies for Edtech Business
EdTech4Beginners
JULY 21, 2023
The Edtech industry is worth over $340 billion , and its value will keep rising as digital learning becomes even more common. Owning a successful Edtech website means learning optimization tactics that can help increase web visibility and create opportunities for revenue generation.
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The EduJedi Report Podcast – EdTech Chaos
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 1, 2020
In this episode of the EduJedi Report Podcast, Host and Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen discusses the general education tech chaos with Tricia Kennedy, Executive Director of Instructional Development and Support at Gwinnett County Public Schools in Atlanta.
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Choosing Edtech: Three Learnings from Five Districts
Digital Promise
JULY 13, 2021
How might districts find edtech to support learning? Fortunately, educators can leverage learnings from some leading-edge K-12 districts who have developed thoughtful processes for making edtech decisions despite limited available evidence. Districts will have access to the nearly $190 billion which the U.S.
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3 Ways edtech can help education get back on track
Neo LMS
JULY 29, 2021
A recent report shared by Google and KPMG reveals that the education tech industry would cater to about 9.6 Despite claims that technology is negatively affecting learning schedules, edtech is a valuable tool for students. Online learning gives proactive measures that make learning continue amidst calamities.
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3 Key Findings on the State of Digital Learning in K–12
EdTech Magazine
MAY 6, 2019
3 Key Findings on the State of Digital Learning in K–12. But what is the actual state of digital learning when it comes to accessibility, implementation and effectiveness? Schoology recently released a report on the 2018-2019 state of digital learning in K–12 schools. eli.zimmerman_9856.
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Five EdTech Story Ideas for Education Reporters
Doug Levin
JUNE 1, 2017
This week, education reporters from across the nation are gathering at the 2017 Education Writers Association National Seminar in Washington, DC. Among the topics they will focus on is technology in education (AKA "digital learning"). To that end, I suggest five story ideas for reporters interested in the topic.
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The benefits of using a web filter for digital learning
Hapara
MAY 8, 2023
Amy Traynor uses the reports in Hāpara Filter to share weekly statistics with the administrative team. This is helpful, too, if students are learning remotely due to school closure. Does your school or district web filter software do enough to help digital learning? Want to learn more?
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How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S.
eSchool News
MARCH 21, 2024
Where edtech steps in While the student population speaking languages other than English within the U.S. Now, edtech can support bilingual education in a way impossible before. percent of the population reports speaking a language other than English at home. In fact, 21.6
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15 edtech startups selected for the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator
eSchool News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Announced in October 2023, the AWS Education Accelerator supports edtech startups who are innovating to enhance the teaching and learning experience and improve educational outcomes. The participating edtech startups are focused on a wide range of solutions for PK-12, higher education, and workforce education customers.
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How Effective Is Your Edtech Tool? Five Questions to Ask
Digital Promise
AUGUST 13, 2019
We all want to help students learn. When it comes to education technology (edtech), school leaders and developers alike want to provide the best tools—ones that truly make a difference. To identify effective digital learning tools, we have to know what kind of impact we are looking for. What makes a learning app good?
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Prioritizing inclusivity in game-based learning
eSchool News
APRIL 22, 2024
Designing for Inclusion, Designing for All: A mindset shift and practical approaches to further your journey toward inclusive design in EdTech , illustrates how inclusive design practices can improve any edtech solution by providing educational experiences that are more flexible, customizable, and meaningful for all students.
What keeps edtech leaders up at night?
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Among the key findings in the report and survey: Cybersecurity Tops the List: The report underscores that “cybersecurity” is now the paramount concern in K-12 education–an increase in priority since 2022. The report highlights the urgent need for comprehensive AI strategies at the federal and state level.
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Reaching edtech harmony in your classroom
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
While diverse edtech products promise innovation, they simultaneously pose challenges. Educators, learners, instructional technology coaches, and IT/edtech staff are grappling with the complexities of managing an ever-expanding arsenal of disconnected digital tools.
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What Keeps Edtech Leaders Up At Night?
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Among the key findings in the report and survey: Cybersecurity Tops the List: The report underscores that “cybersecurity” is now the paramount concern in K-12 education–an increase in priority since 2022. The report highlights the urgent need for comprehensive AI strategies at the federal and state level.
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New Report: Equity, Cybersecurity Top List of State Education Technology Priorities
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
As students return to another school-year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report sheds light on how state education agencies and policy-makers are adapting to an increasingly digital, post-pandemic world. However, 57% of respondents report that their states provide very little funding for school cybersecurity efforts.
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7 Edtech Trends to Watch in 2022: a Startup Guide for Entrepreneurs
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. Data is abundant and the key to today’s edtech solutions Data is critical to unlock the potential of edtech solutions.
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Crunch the numbers: The latest edtech data you can use right now
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
K-12 schools to simplify and secure digital learning, announced last month its Classroom of the Future Report 2023 , a new survey of school administrators, teachers, and edtech vendors highlighting five trends shaping classrooms of the future.
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Adult Learners Need Their Own EdTech Tools, Ed Department Report Finds
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
To help adult learners, edtech tools should be designed for their needs and goals, support them in virtually communicating with instructors and classmates and offer them a smooth mobile experience, according to a new report published on behalf of the U.S. It’s a sticking point for a lot of adult learners that we elevate in the reports.”
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Filtering Current Events to Promote Safe Digital Learning
Lightspeed Systems
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Review Most Accessed Websites Use reporting from Lightspeed Filter to determine what potential harmful websites are most frequently being visited, and recategorize or block completely as needed. The post Filtering Current Events to Promote Safe Digital Learning appeared first on Lightspeed Systems.
64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024
eSchool News
JANUARY 1, 2024
As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. What are the projections for edtech? This begs the question: What’s next for education?
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Best practices for managing web filtering in a digital learning environment
Hapara
MARCH 13, 2023
Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning environment offers students all kinds of options for research, class projects, collaboration, activities and assessments. So how do you manage web filtering so that it protects students but doesn’t restrict learning?
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Are College Students Comfortable Using Edtech? Maybe Not
Edsurge
AUGUST 4, 2021
A new survey shows that college students’ attitudes correlate with their personal experiences with online learning. In contrast, students who reported that they struggled to learn to use new technology had more-negative experiences with online learning—and they were also more likely to consider the use of such tools in class to be invasive.
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New EduJedi Dictionary Gives Meaning to the Language of EdTech
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
By Learning Counsel Staff Reports The power and depth of digital curriculum and its ability to reach and engage students continues to evolve. There are tens of millions of digital learning objects including massive numbers of items that are in the free and open education resources sites.
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Why “offline” digital learning is critical to impact children worldwide
eSchool News
JUNE 10, 2022
Glaringly missing from the landscape are adaptive, digital learning solutions that are offline. While we work to increase universal access to the internet, the edtech ecosystem cannot ignore the hundreds of millions of children currently without connectivity but who are eager to learn.
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EdTech Success in LAUSD
eSchool News
AUGUST 9, 2023
Click through to listen for some big-picture analysis of the survey results you can scroll below: Project Tomorrow recently released data on how connected digital learning devices have benefited families in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Commissioned by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,
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Blackboard to Merge With Anthology, Forming a New Edtech Giant
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Today one of the largest providers of course-management software for colleges and schools, Blackboard, announced that it plans to merge with Anthology, a company formed last year from the combination of three other edtech companies. Blackboard is one of the largest LMS providers.
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Not Just Classroom Supplies: Teachers Also Buy Edtech With Their Own Money
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. Recent studies by Deloitte and the Gates Foundation have shed light into how educators engage with edtech.
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10 findings about K-12 digital learning
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Digital learning itself is expanding in schools, but access to classroom and home technology still remains a major obstacle, according to a new study from Schoology. Nearly 42 percent of study participants say lack of student access at home is their biggest obstacle to student learning.
Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.
Edsurge
JULY 28, 2021
It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.
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Do You Know the Edtech Adoption Rules in Your State? SETDA’s New Guide May Help.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 10, 2017
A new report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) aims to clear up the murky waters surrounding the adoption of digital learning materials, a process that varies wildly between states. Tracy Weeks, Executive Director of SETDA in a statement.
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Discovery Education’s EdTech News Roundup – April 17
Discovery Education
APRIL 16, 2023
For this edition of the DE EdTech News Roundup, we’ll cover: EdTech Trends ESSER Funding Insights from Education Leaders ICYMI EdTech Trends Education technology (EdTech) combines teaching and learning strategies with digital tools. This is our moment.
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Hype, Hope and Humblepie for Predictions About Digital Learning
Edsurge
AUGUST 6, 2019
That forecast was rooted in a sense of optimism—that as digital learning tools and opportunities proliferated in schools, educators would increasingly be able to tailor their instruction to meet students’ different needs. Thirty-five percent of teachers say they use edtech daily, and another 23 percent say they use it most days.
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EdisonLearning Joins with Digital Learning Collaborative to Improve Online Education
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
The EdTech Trends You Might Be Missing
Doug Levin
JULY 5, 2015
I also have to be right up front about a few biases I have in my scan of the morning news, borne out of my interest and experience in advising education leaders about the use of technology to improve education: Yesterday’s reports, studies, and new stories may already be too dated to be actionable. Is this helpful?
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6 things to prepare teachers for Digital Learning Day
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Digital learning plays an integral part in helping students build the skills they need for academic and personal success. In fact, it’s so important that it has its own day, and this year, Digital Learning Day is on February 28. school district laid out a careful plan to be “digital from day one of learning.”
10 things to know about digital learning
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Digital learning itself is expanding in schools, but access to classroom and home technology still remains a major obstacle, according to a new study from Schoology. Related content: 30+ digital learning tools and services.
The EdTech Genome Project: Talking Implementation with Elizabeth Birie
MIND Research Institute
JULY 27, 2021
In our latest episode, I welcome our Massachusetts Professional Learning Designer Elizabeth Birie to the show for a conversation about edtech implementation. Elizabeth reflects back on her firsthand experiences with edtech as a teacher, and some of the challenges educators face when implementing programs. You can download here.
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Seeking Integrity in EdTech Research – Again
ProfHacker
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
However, there were some other things right from the start that bothered us about the report. We have taken issue with other reports for similar issues. Additionally, they surveyed “Digital Learning Leaders” to see how they felt about some (but not all) of the items in the survey.
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Is There Still Time to Build Equity into Virtual Reality Edtech?
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
For their first installment, the group published a report based on a roundtable discussion held with leaders from community colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and historically Black colleges and universities. Because the technology is in its early stages, Ray argues it’s not too late to disrupt old habits.
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The Role of Digital Learning Platforms in the Academic Growth of Students
Kitaboo on EdTech
AUGUST 8, 2023
What is a Digital Learning Platform? Gone are the days when learning was restricted to the classroom, with the instructor being the primary source of knowledge. A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS).
From the classroom to the office: What we can learn from educators entering the edtech workforce
eSchool News
MARCH 9, 2023
Many educators have left the school environment to join edtech companies, seeking new ways to serve students while solving for the shortcomings they felt in the school-based workplace. How has it worked out, and what have we learned? Now, I have the ability to grow by moving into different roles.”
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The 5 Strategies States Should Pursue Now to Make the Most of Future EdTech Investments in ESSA
Doug Levin
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Now, Title IV is a complex, layered program and marks a significant departure in structure and operation from past federal edtech investments. This post summarizes my current thoughts on the issue in the hope that it may be useful to others in – or who work with – State Departments of Education.
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Bringing Edtech in Rural Education
eSpark
APRIL 13, 2022
Many teachers worry that they will need to spend hours learning how to use new edtech before being able to successfully implement it in the classroom. Furthermore, Hanson noted that high quality edtech helps students, teachers, and administrators by making it easier to use student data to differentiate learning.
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