eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. What are the projections for edtech? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2021. The past six months have reaffirmed that engagement is central to student learning, regardless of the instructional environment. Justin Reilly, CEO, Impero Software.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 139

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Using results from a student placement test, ChalkTalk’s machine-learning software generates a standards-aligned curriculum customized to fit within existing class schedules. supporting ChalkTalk’s investment in EdTech ecosystem integrations which will expand its product offering from 11th grade ELA & Math all 12-grade levels.

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Company EdTech Instructional Materials Exercises 92

Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

. – I want to focus instead on one aspect of how we are shifting from print to digital: the procurement decision schools make about whether to license digital instructional materials or purchase them outright, because I think ownership of instructional materials matters.**. Image credits. Image credits.

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Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Broadband 387

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.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Often, these pitches entail free or discounted software for products ranging from instructional materials to virtual conferencing tools. Not all company executives are offering software. Among them are companies directly reaching out to teachers and administrators, offering to help ease that transition.

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Company Software Instructional Materials Assessment 212

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.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 128

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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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

In 2013, TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in a deal that was greeted by the edtech industry as a sign that major technology giants were serious about expanding into education. The impending shutdown of TenMarks marks the latest pause and setback for Amazon’s efforts to develop and sell digital instructional services for the K-12 market.

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Tools Company Instructional Materials Tablets 82

EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It doesn’t matter whether you’re searching for an engaging “Crash Course” on the United States Constitution or a film to help your pupils comprehend the carbon life cycle; YouTube’s instructional material may assist in implementing any curriculum. YouTube has more instructional videos than the LC.

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Classroom Khan Academy Smartphone Video 162

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).

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Adaptive Learning Instructional Materials Course Blended Learning 40

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.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 49

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

At this stage of the edtech revolution, most educators are focused on using tech to enhance lessons rather than on the tech itself. They researched trophy designs, used software to create the trophies, and printed them on the 3D printer. She used the school’s design software and vinyl cutter to develop and print her stickers.

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Personalized Learning Learning OER Broadband 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Helping Learners Find Their ZPD Understanding what “tailoring instruction” means and what it takes to make it happen is critical when implementing a personalized learning model. For Reyes, it’s about using purposeful groupings, choosing relevant instructional materials and modifying content to align with learning interests and needs.

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Personalized Learning Meeting Differentiated Instruction Instructional Materials 97

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2018

Schools were unhappy with both the cost and the quality of the instructional materials available. Retention is key in any software-as-a-service business, he noted, and “it’s easy to underestimate the exponential power of churn.” Products that are actively used are generating value for teachers and learners.”

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Outcomes Education Company Broadband 72

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Home may be the new classroom, but instructional approaches are slower to change. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. One key finding in the report and the full survey : Teachers’ instructional materials didn’t necessarily change to meet the needs of remote instruction. What About That App Behind the Curtain?

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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.

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Differentiated Instruction Industry Instructional Materials Google 40

eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

i-Ready continues to be a standout in the edtech space, in part, because it is always improving to meet the changing needs of educators and students alike,” said Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates. Recently, i-Ready won a 2022 Tech & Learning ISTE Best of Show Award and a 2022 EdTech Digest Award.

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Assessment Instructional Materials Differentiated Instruction EdTech 85

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. Our products leverage a wide variety of technical open standards to make edtech interoperability seamless, simple and secure.”

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Data LMS EdTech Accessibility 214

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g. State Funding States vary drastically in the funds they make available for K-12 technology.

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 170

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. Tackling the $6 billion instructional materials market almost always requires displacing a product, program or service already in use. billion or so.

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 83

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2017

This could really truncate a lot of decisions about buying technology, software or subscriptions.” If you are building new charter schools you need new hardware, new instructional materials, and new school supplies. They have to train new staff, and that’s a great target for edtech companies,” she explains.

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EdTech Education Company STEM 86