Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. Most people would be fine if Pearson offered either option to all users?software

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

based edtech startups in 2017 saw a resurgence of investment capital. edtech investments in 2011. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. edtech companies. edtech startups hit almost $1.7 billion across 126 deals.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). Now “Sand Hill is waiting to see the outcome of some of their previous edtech investments,” says Shauntel Poulson, a general partner at Reach Capital.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out opportunities for schools to apply for personalized learning funding! MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms! MORE FROM EDTECH: See how adaptive learning is driving change in K–12 education! by Eli Zimmerman.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

Today, the average US teacher uses 148 different EdTech products and the average US school district uses over 1,400 EdTech solutions. Offering Strategic Hardware Solutions: ClassIn X transforms traditional classrooms into outcome-driven hybrid learning spaces through an IoT hardware package that digitizes the physical classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how FERPA has changed over the years and what updates mean for K–12 schools. Lawsuits are one potential outcome, but educational institutions could also find their public reputations irreparably damaged. . In-house storage requires both situational awareness and strong encryption , Clyde tells EdTech.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

MORE FROM EDTECH: Read this Q&A with a VR expert on how to implement AR/VR in the classroom! Research shows VR is not just a gimmick, but instead it can change the way students’ brains function in the classroom, Jaime Donally, founder of ARVRinEDU and a mixed reality professional development consultant, tells EdTech.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. Yet selling against the proposition of improved learning outcomes is dangerous.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

AIM is developed by Glimpse K12 , a startup that wants to help school districts manage their spending more efficiently, and align investments and purchases with returns on student outcomes. A survey from LearnTrials, another edtech company, came to similar conclusions. The idea is that buying in bulk can save money.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We have a discussion at Pearson about this shift in society from a digital desert to a digital ocean,” said John Behrens, vice president of advanced computing and data science at Pearson. For all the talk about data and learning, Essa offered this blunt assessment: “Pretty much all edtech sucks. So what’s missing?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Earlier this week representatives from Pearson, the Bill Gates Foundation, the Center for Education Reform, American Public Education, Inc. Around 100 attendees representing edtech startups, the New York City Department of Education, venture capitalists, teachers and administrators listened carefully during the event in midtown Manhattan.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

Question: What do we learn from a study that shows a technique or technology likely has affected an educational outcome? Early evidence suggests that many edtech companies are following the same path. Answer: Not nearly enough. But researchers rarely interpret the meaning of these figures. And the figures can be confusing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

EdSurge’s managing editor, Tony Wan, will pose these questions to Bill Fitzgerald (New Knowledge), Doug Levin (EdTech Strategies), Courtney Goodsell (Impero Software) and Stephanie Cerda (administrator at Austin Independent School District). But how much surveillance is acceptable, and what are the implications for students’ privacy rights?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The company has also begun partnering with other companies such as Pearson and Microsoft. Even so, Ramirez described the edtech environment as “extremely challenging.” His advice to other edtech entrepreneurs? Incumbants have an advantage, he pointed out. Stay close to the problem they are trying to solve. Ramireze said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

If ASU+GSV Summit is the edtech industry’s playground for dealmaking, this is the VIP club for its financiers. Should these companies aim to list on the public markets, “public investors are going to be looking for outcomes-based metrics, because today you have to prove that you’re improving outcomes,” says Silver. “If

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

When edtech companies approach Kara Monroe, they all tout how their product is different from everybody else’s. There’s huge amount of money coming into the edtech market for adaptive learning, personalized learning, competency-based materials, open materials. So much is coming at us,” Monroe says. What’s Next?

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

The “oligopoly,” as we called it, was the natural outcome of a highly decentralized system and fragmented demand. The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson. Now there’s a large and growing edtech investment industry. Venture funding was scarce. That’s no longer the case.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

From left: Kelly Fuller (BMO), John Rogers (The Rise Fund), Elizabeth Chou (Leeds Equity Partners), Waseem Alam (Weld North Education), Adriel Sanchez (Newsela) “Before, you used to concede 90 percent of the market to the Big Three,” said Scott Kinney, president of K-12 Education at Discovery Education, referring to Pearson, McGraw-Hill and HMH.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

If edtech is to help improve education research it will need to kick a bad habit—focusing on whether or not an educational intervention ‘works’. Are there, however, reasons to think edtech companies might be incentivized to abandon the current NHST paradigm? Consider a product owner at an edtech company. We think there are.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2021

The OnRamp Education & Workforce Innovation program was developed as a partnership of gener8tor and ECMC Group’s Education Impact Fund to seed innovation that promotes accessibility and positive student and worker outcomes. More than 500 one-on-one meetings will be facilitated today at this year’s conference.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

Edtech companies, many of which already partner with teachers and students early in the product design process, are uniquely suited to facilitating the type of research necessary to bridge the gap between academia and the classroom. Surveys reveal that purchasers of edtech products rarely make decisions based on the rigorous evidence.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. prefer instructional formats that produce inferior learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

It’s become known as the edtech industry’s rendezvous for investors and bankers—although it wasn’t always this way. “It The ASU GSV conference stands out for being unabashedly capitalist, in the sense that everyone believes that delivering on profits and student outcome can go hand-in-hand. Pearson is launching its own.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That reasoning has some similar undertones to the explanation given by Pearson when it sold its student information system, PowerSchool, in 2015. The publisher said then that the sale would “enable us to focus more directly on learning outcomes.” “As Illuminate , based in Irvine, Calif.,

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. The small amount of research to date on how adaptive learning technology impacts student outcomes is inconclusive. Students gived these course packages mixed reviews.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Arati Nagaraj is an education consultant, edtech advisor and school board trustee in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a 25+ career in education, Arati has used her curriculum design skills to create unique learning experiences in education and nonprofit sectors at Pearson, EdSurge and Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

-based company wants to help K-12 schools and districts tackle an age-old problem: leverage data from disparate sources to help educators better align their spending and resources to improve student outcomes. The company charges districts on a per-student basis, and currently has six of them paying to use the platform.

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2021

Outcomes, Impact and the Future. Michael has held leadership positions in sales and marketing with Learning Bird, Follett Software Company, ETA hand2mind, Pearson, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Smith noted that the Oak Meadow experience is not just about some good pandemic lessons learned. Join the Community.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

These partners range from household names such as Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to upstarts like Waggle. Never one to be bashful, Ferreira believes his work has steered the edtech industry to see what’s possible with data—even if that means introducing jargon that irk educators, researchers and reporters. “At

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 29, 2016

Pearson also recently formed a partnership with Teaching Channel , an online community for teachers. Million: Edtech startup KickUp has raised $1.54 The move “positions VIF to deliver best-in-breed technology to enhance and expand professional learning and collaboration opportunities for educators,” VIF said in a statement.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

.” You’ll often hear its advocates invoke Benjamin Bloom’s 1984 study on “ the 2 Sigma Problem ” and claim that one-on-one tutoring is radically effective at improving student outcomes. “EdTech fails to pay, again,” The Financial Times chuckled. Microsoft bought three companies in 2018.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Long known for building learning solutions from the ground up to be used successfully in a blended classroom and online learning environment, Savvas, formerly Pearson K12 Learning, set out to further enhance its content and advanced technologies for more optimized remote teaching. New Products Available This Fall .

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The letters went to 2U, Academic Partnerships, Pearson Learning, Wiley and Bisk. According to the letters, OPM contracts have colleges share half the tuition revenue from students and suggests the arrangement could break federal law, which prohibits universities that receive federal dollars from paying commissions on student recruitment.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

.” The publishers in question are Cengage , McGraw-Hill , and Pearson. Testing, Testing… Via Chalkbeat : “Calculator mix-up could force some students to retake ISTEP, and Pearson is partially to blame.” ” The testing firm in question: Pearson. The History of Pearson. Billion By 2050.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

” Via EdScoop : “Edtech and industry leaders say they’re stuck if they can’t scale.” ” Via Edsurge : “What’s Next for Pearson ? ” Via Education Week : “ Pearson Tested ‘Social-Psychological’ Messages in Learning Software, With Mixed Results.”

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