Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

The “attempted security incident” this month knocked out many of Illuminate Education’s digital services, including an online gradebook, Skedula, and a related parent-focused platform, PupilPath, which are used by New York’s public school system. The uptick is happening at a time of record spending on U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. Even its digital education assets, including PowerSchool, a student information system, was sold because it didn’t fit with Pearson’s focus on learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2024

But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson. He says his team spent about five years trying, and along the way they helped build some small-scale attempts into learning products, such as a pilot chatbot assistant that was part of a Pearson online psychology courseware system in 2018.

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Knewton Khan Academy Robotics Company 216

Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Here’s a look at the biggest edtech business stories of 2019—the ones that captured the most attention, and the ones that should have your attention. A $157M Fundraise for Guild Education Births Edtech’s Newest Unicorn by Tony Wan Unicorns don’t exist, except when they’re of the billion-dollar valuation variety. Coincidence?)

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Now one of its most high-profile content partners and investors, Pearson , is pulling back. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. The retrenchment delivers a setback to Knewton, for whom Pearson was the first—and most visible—partner.

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Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 76

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

JANUARY 6, 2017

Can edtech improve the quality and usefulness of educational research? We may be biased (as colleagues at a large and scrutinized edtech company), but we aren’t naïve. Incentives for edtech companies to adopt better research practices already exist and there is early evidence of openness to change.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Over the years, Byju’s has acquired several assets to shore up its offerings, including Edurite and TutorVista, from Pearson in 2017. These businesses are not really supporting the formal education system. Brothers notes that “with some of these mega rounds, the capital is immediately deployed for acquisitions.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

In the past, experts have made big projections for the global edtech market, with some groups estimating as much as $252 billion pouring into the market by 2020. Because of limited edtech providers in Mexico, Najera relies on products from the United States and Spain. You know education is not a big business in Mexico.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. decided to shut down the system to focus on services that are more directly aligned to “student achievement,” according to the email. Illuminate , based in Irvine, Calif.,

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! This also lets staff use mobile devices to update, operate and monitor digital signage systems.). The tools make communicating with students, staff and parents easier, more effective and even less expensive. How Schools Use Digital Signage.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

CourseGateway reviews existing courseware products according to five criteria: equity, efficacy, functionality, systems capacities and privacy, data protection and rights. The platform launched in June with reviews of 16 products, including tools made by OpenStax, Wiley, Lumen Learning, Pearson and Labster.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This indicates a complementary relationship between AI and traditional support systems in the college application journey. Collaboration with traditional guidance: While AI tools are gaining popularity, the survey reveals that seniors also seek guidance from traditional sources, with 57.5% consulting a college counselor and 48.3%

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

That strategy paid off over 10 years ago when, as a graduate student at Brigham Young University, he found that his peers were disgruntled with the learning management system used on campus at the time. Pearson spokesman Scott Overland pushed back against the idea that publisher software is outdated. I hope this will remain low cost.”

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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 16, 2023

2023 CODiE AWARD EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY FINALISTS Best Administrative Solution Lightspeed Digital Insight, Lightspeed Systems Qwickly Attendance, Qwickly, Inc. Shift iQ, InSite Information Systems PowerSchool, PowerSchool Realityworks, Inc., Details about each finalist are listed at [link]. The category winners will be announced June.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

That’s why we’ve also highlighted a few here that we don’t want you to miss, from complicated community college turnarounds to where IKEA and edtech overlap. Beyond Design Thinking: Why Education Entrepreneurs Need to Think in Systems. What’s Next for Pearson? What Do Edtech and IKEA Have in Common? Persuasive Design.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Over the past 10 years, new learning management systems (LMSs) have sprung on the scene to rival the Blackboards and Moodles of old. And with certain established companies like Pearson pulling out of the LMS ranks , where do you start? On the EdSurge Product Index alone, 56 products self-identify and fall into the LMS category.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

A survey from LearnTrials, another edtech company, came to similar conclusions. For school leaders, Bundle offers “a real opportunity to stretch dollars to solve more problems,” Glimpse K12’s co-founder and CEO Adam Pearson said. According to Pearson, Bundle will cost districts about $3,000 a year, depending on the number of licenses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. Rethink Education , an edtech investment firm based in White Plains, N.Y.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

He’s been involved in six edtech acquisitions over the past seven years, on both sides of the table. From an edtech standpoint, start your M&A pipeline early on.” There, Bencivenga helped orchestrate IO’s purchases of assessment platform Eadms in August 2016, and of eSchoolData, a student data management system, in September 2017.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Earlier this year Ferreira stepped aside as CEO, replaced by Brian Kibby , a veteran of major textbook companies including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Early on, Pearson had embraced Knewton’s technology and even invested in the company, but this year that publisher decided to pull back on the use of Knewton’s platform.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

So far 30 such content creators have been green-lighted, ranging from high-school teachers and college professors, to brand-name publishers including Kaplan, Penguin Random House, Oxford University Press and Pearson, which is selling a handful of English vocabulary materials. Collecting a lot of resources is easy.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

We’ve tried to make this event much more broader just another ‘edtech conference’ and to encompass learning and talent development,” says Li Jiang, Vice President of GSV Asset Management. The answer options range from tech giants—Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft—to publishers (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Scholastic).

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Edtech, I believe, is going through a similar rebuilding moment powered by three trends: widely available infrastructure, the catalytic impact of spending by both the government and philanthropy in education, and—finally—the embrace of edtech by educational institutions and educators themselves. Not yet convinced?

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

The winners of the 2023 EdTech CODiE Awards serve as prime examples of exceptional products, services and groundbreaking innovation that enables learners of all types to connect with educators and educational materials,” said SIIA President Chris Mohr. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products.

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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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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 30, 2016

The large publishing companies ( Pearson , McGraw Hill ), technology players ( Google , Amazon ), and more well established ed tech ( Edmodo , BrainPOP ) all have a lot of real estate, including about a dozen people on the floor, and presentation theaters. I spoke with several start-ups to see how they were heard over the noise.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Dr. Trautenberg recommends using a “systems approach” that includes forecasting budget decreases and then aligning the expenditures to meet instructional, health, and learning needs regardless of which educational model may be used currently or in the future. Arati has an M.Ed. Join the Community.

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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. Netflix just wants you happy and watching more movies. References Bjork, E. & Bjork, R.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Andrew Peek, the Canadian company’s chief operating officer, says Delphia’s system has been trained to make these recommendations based on survey data from recent university graduates. And if users doesn’t like the suggestions, they can let Delphia know, and the system will recalibrate its recommendation system.

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Technology Education Company Pearson 110

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2017

Many new CEOs face a learning curve when they enter the edtech industry. But at Kickboard , an online school culture system management system, it’s a straight dive in for Stefan Kohler, a former teacher and executive at companies including Scholastic and Pearson.

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. Once the industry’s poster child for adaptive learning, Knewton boasted working with dozens of publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

They’re looking for the answers to easy administrative questions, and they have similar type of questions regarding their subjects each year,” says Erik Bøylestad Nilsen, an advisor in edtech and innovation at BI Norwegian Business School. Chatbots help get rid of some of the noise. Assisting the Teaching Assistants.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Get a question right, and the system will likely offer something more difficult or advanced. Get it wrong, and the system attempts to finds whether there’s a gap in pre-requisite knowledge, and provide review materials. Sample screenshot of what students see in Alta.

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