EdTech Magazine

JUNE 13, 2018

More professionals and students use Software as a Service (SaaS) on a daily basis. SaaS adoption is growing for a wide range of industries. SaaS information should be held to the same industry-regulated standards as finances or healthcare. Strategies to Protect Vulnerable Student Data.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 5, 2019

Quick Take: Covering the 6 key elements in creating the right foundation for modern education with the arrival of the 4 th industrial revolution and the changing educational environment. VR technology like Google Tour Creator will allow students to create and take virtual tours anywhere around the world in an immersive 360-degree environment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Getting hired can feel like a game of chance, but it’s actually one of strategy. Or they’ve put in the time and effort to network with people who might become useful connections, usually through in-person informational interviews or attending industry conferences. Now, you can pay strangers on the internet to refer you for jobs.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

Educators can’t imagine a world where their industry isn’t able to stay the way it’s always been. Strategy Years. For schools, the strategy years are characterized by a real concern about devices and networks. In the Strategy Years, a school needs an advance guard of enthusiasts and leaders.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

By engaging and partnering with community stakeholders and organizations such as service providers, cable companies, and software companies and seeking grant opportunities, school districts will have access to digital equity resources and possible subsidized funding. Innovative Approaches. Connect with Regina at on Twitter @reginaschaffer.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Also, these programs don’t build the soft skills industry increasingly demands. Kenzie Academy is a unique bootcamp, where students with little to no coding experience learn highly sought after UX Engineering or Software engineering skills in just one year. That’s because our industry in some sense is countercyclical.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves? If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Today’s guest, Enrique Cachafeiro talks about the hardware, software options, and future of virtual reality. We were trying out Google Expedition with a full classroom kit. Vicki: Help me understand the differences between web VR experiences and like, Google Expedition. What’s the difference between web VR and Google Expedition?

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

“If we deliver some value to them in this crisis, we hope we become an essential part of their mathematics strategy and practice,” says DreamBox CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Many of the investors are new to the industry, Brothers notes. Coronavirus really changed that.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 23, 2024

On the market front, the eBook industry is expected to generate more than $15 billion by 2027. To combat these threats and meet the demand, digital platforms like KITABOO have come up with DRM protection software. What is DRM Software? How Does DRM Software Protect Your eBooks? The End Note What is DRM Software?

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google all had yet to be imagined. In former positions, I worked in the software industry and then as a publishing executive in the education technology news media sector. Our largest companies didn’t exist yet. Telephones were all tethered by wires. Only millionaires had car phones.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 19, 2022

You need to take responsibility, devise a strategy to communicate with your ideal customers, and position your company to achieve its goals by gaining a more profound knowledge of the industry. Google Analytics. Many other analytics tools are available, but Google Analytics is the most popular.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The conversation around how technology can enhance education can be a controversial topic, and that carries over into the tutoring industry as well. Clark is software for your tutoring business. More than just software for tutors, Clark simplifies the logistics around tutoring sessions for parents and students. Google Calendar.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Over the weekend Christine Peterson published an essay on opensource.com describing the emergence of the ideas behind “open source software” and how she coined the name twenty years ago. In a few days, on February 3, the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the term “ open source software ” is upon us.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 26, 2016

Ed-tech products that have achieved traction in the market—generating revenues above $100 million a year—must fit into existing teacher workflows, Dave Hoverman, a managing director at Parthenon-EY, said Monday in his keynote speech here at the Education Industry Symposium. Google for searches, Google Classroom and Google Docs.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

Even the biggest names in the education technology industry, awash in private capital, are seeking public support during the pandemic. Already the nonprofit has received $3 million in grants from AT&T, Google and other corporate donors earlier this year. ISTE, the parent organization of EdSurge, was also approved for a PPP loan.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

The Google campus in Mountain View, California. Businesses like Google, IBM, and Accenture have also made high-profile moves to boost skills-based hiring and remove bachelor’s degree requirements. In February, Google announced a $100 million partnership with Social Finance to help as many as 20,000 workers earn IT certificates.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2016

It is critical to have a well thought-out, go-to-market strategy in place to demonstrate the value of your edtech product. In some industries, these marketing functions can be separated from sales functions. The first step of that approach is deciding which sales strategy best suits your product. In edtech, that is impossible.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Just beneath the surface, however, Burlington has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

askMyClass This Menlo Park-based startup seeks to offer teachers classroom management strategies, lesson support and social-emotional support for students via voice technology. Aparna is a doctor, and Deepak previously worked at Google. Cofounder James Lin likens it to an “SAT for software engineers.”

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

We primarily used Craigslist for all hires except sales and software development. We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. Our onboarding included a walkthrough of our mission, vision, strategy and tactics. More importantly, it included a thorough overview of the K-12 school market.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Technology companies—in all industries—make users anxious when they describe their work with the vagueness of a magician. Let’s, for instance, take how companies like Google and Facebook “personalize” a user’s web browsing experience through search results, ads and content—and then apply that to instructional experiences.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In each case, IT executives were neither incompetent nor clueless – they simply prioritized short term features and functionality, rather than connecting the dots between today’s needs and the trends that would define their industry for years to come. So how will the role of video on campus evolve?

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Video LMS Flipped Classroom Industry 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The intervention is a direct response to the fact that the shortage of data and computer scientists “isn’t being handled” by universities and colleges, said Charles Eaton, executive vice president for social innovation at the Computing Technology Industry Association, or CompTIA. Some academics take a dim view of this development.

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Sony Microsoft Industry Company 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. A growing number of businesses are listening. A ‘1-percent market’.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

It is already happening not just in companies such as Google and Facebook, whose business model is to advertise on the back of free products in a pay-per-click strategy. I pointed out that some major players in the gaming industry are participating. It gives them a competitive edge over their rivals. Unported License.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). In the past couple of years the company has hired hundreds of software engineers, from the likes of Chinese internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, to make that happen. That’s the strategy for. The strategy has helped EduLab source bigger deals. Last month.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Long a staple of industry, fab labs have recently been popping up in affluent high schools and middle schools. Elizabeth Rood, vice president of education strategy, Bay Area Discovery Museum. “We Another challenge has been finding computer-aided design software suitable for kindergartners. That worked; Jack beamed.

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The Electric Educator

AUGUST 23, 2009

In this bold article Frey claims that a radical shift in education will occur due to the emergence of standard course-ware software so that companies, universities and school districts can quickly and easily create content that can be accessed from around the world. blue ocean strategy disrupting class future of education on-line learning'

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 8, 2015

I can remember the genuine excitement of the movement to use Free and Open Source Software in schools. Google came in with their free email services, and it turned out that no matter how compelling the philosophical and pedagogical arguments were for Open Source, it was actually the "free" aspect that carried the day. It was magical.

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Maker Movement Software Industry Company 28

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. The edtech industry made big strides during this era. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Launched in 2000, it developed Study Island, a computer-based test-prep software tied to state standardized tests. Time will tell how these strategies play out. Google Classroom has instead emerged as the de facto standard platform, fueled by the runaway adoption of Chromebooks. So what is the state of the industry?

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

In Silicon Valley, the non-profit Zero 1: The Art and Technology Network , places artists in large tech companies to work alongside engineers designing products and software for the future. Forwarding looking enterprises like FaceBook and. Related: Can the arts get students to college?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. There is some thought that a certain percentage of instruction must be digital to qualify as “blended learning,” but there is no clear industry standard.

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