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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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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. Students across the country have pushed back against the use of test proctoring software, citing the mental toll of constant monitoring and concerns over privacy.

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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

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educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. In the past, publishers such as Pearson and McGraw-Hill were counted on to be the exit strategy. Source: EdSurge. In this annual year-end analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Remember Edmodo? If so, what are they?

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Where School Safety, Security, & Surveillance Meet Happy hour will have to wait, as we kick our sessions off with a sobering and important conversation that warrants your attention.

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Storage Wars: Choosing a Secure Student Data Solution

EdTech Magazine

In a recent lawsuit, an Illinois woman and her daughter accuse Pearson, the multinational publishing and education company, of exposing the information of more than 1 million students when it failed to detect or respond to a 2018 data breach. . The impact of storage security failure is substantial. But security doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

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Twelve Years Later: How the K-12 Industry and Investment Landscape Has Shifted (Part 2)

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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. Launched in 2000, it developed Study Island, a computer-based test-prep software tied to state standardized tests.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. ” 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. Yuanfudao (tutoring): $250 million. billion. .”

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