Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Zoom is hiring folks with years of experience in education technology. Before that, she founded education advisory company Quantum Thinking, was an entrepreneur-in-residence and senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, and worked for Kaplan, Pearson, Ellucian, Blackboard and Oracle. “I Here’s what we learned. I like early market.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2021

June 17, 2021 — MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — gener8tor , a concierge startup accelerator program, and ECMC Group , a Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization with a mission to help students succeed, have selected five startups to participate in the inaugural OnRamp Education & Workforce Innovation Accelerator.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2021

Minneapolis June 22, 2021 – Edmentum (edmentum.com ), a global pioneer in education technology, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Apex Learning, a Seattle-based industry leader in digital curriculum and virtual learning with over 20 years of deep expertise providing high-quality, rigorous, and teacher-centered programs.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

College and university leaders are increasingly willing to work with technology and services partners and various “enabler” firms that are much more integrated into their operations—not only at the margins of their value chain, but at the core. The Rise of Enablement Businesses.

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Brainscape

MAY 18, 2022

AND, on top of all of this, the app is built for collaboration , which allows you to share notes and documents with a study group. What can you do with BARBRI’s Study App? Watch or listen to lectures, access outlines, work on assignments (anytime and anywhere), and take multiple-choice practice questions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. And the European Union, numerous individual countries, and various NGOs – as well as industry groups and educational leaders in the U.S. – are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

Let children build on class initiatives for programming by picking an option that works best for their learning style rather than the group. Technology. So much of learning today is about technology. Take the stress out of technology by letting students use typical tech tools (like Excel or Google Sheets) to play a game.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Dev Bootcamp, a Kaplan-owned coding bootcamp pioneer, announced last week that it will be closing its doors in December. The Iron Yard (formerly an accelerator program) is a for-profit coding school, and its owner, Apollo Education Group, also owns the University of Phoenix and other institutions, according to the Upstate Business Journal.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

The former Kaplan executive, who served as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, oversaw 67 acquisitions that turned the test-prep business into a global education services provider. Overall, nine of the 16 companies purchased by Weld North are part of the group now owned by Silver Lake. Yet that’s not all.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

And by the same logic, he says, no one can make a blanket statement that boot camp programs as a group can’t work. Some academic critics of boot camps argue that the companies represent a shift to requiring workers to pay more of the bill for their own training, and one that falls disproportionately on low-income or underrepresented groups.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

So his group proposed a revenue-sharing agreement, where it would develop and run the programs in exchange for a percentage of the revenue for a number of years. He found little appetite for the necessary investment and risk from the academic leaders who held the purse strings.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Finding herself with more time on her hands since clinical rotations have been suspended, Robinson organized a group of her classmates into a tutoring corps that provides online help to students in four high-poverty neighborhoods near campus. BROOKLYN, N.Y.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Using technologies that took a huge leap forward during the pandemic — most notably, the delivery of education online — course sharing generally teams up universities and colleges that have extra space in online classes with partner institutions that want to add new programs but can’t afford the time or money to develop them alone.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

When New Markets Venture Partners first began fundraising for its second education technology investment fund, Barack Obama was in office, Brexit for up for debate and iPhones still had headphone jacks. To date, New Markets has invested nearly $30 million across 23 education technology companies since its founding in 2003.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

“The number one thing that stood out for me is the TPG/Rise investment in EverFi,” says Jason Palmer, a general partner at New Markets Venture Fund, referring to the private equity group that led EverFi’s round. These triple-digit rounds feel “disproportionate to where the market for education technology has been,” he says.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL focuses on the spectacular rise in interest in pod schools--small groups of students studying with one or more teachers in an environment that is both similar to, and different from, traditional school. My data stories at Earnest have been covered by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Fortune, Inc.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 25, 2022

Speakers: Virginia Walden Ford (Miss Virginia movie & Board Member, EdChoice) Kerry McDonald (Senior Education Fellow, Foundation for Economic Education) James Lindsay, PhD (Author & NewDiscourses.com) Michael Strong (CEO/Founder, SocraticExperience) John Papola (Founder, Emergent Order Foundation & Dad Saves America) Matt Barnes (Founder, (..)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The latest round of deals in the school marketplace underscores investors’ and ed-tech providers’ burgeoning interest in data analytics and instructional technologies. TAL joins Knewton’s latest round of funding, which is led by Sofina, a Belgian investment group. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Living digital equity involves thinking of each child and their individual and communal needs and actively seeking to provide access, resources, opportunity, standards, and support to all children, “especially groups that are and have been historically marginalized.” A student at William J. Palmer High School calibrates the VR system.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2015

But the move from STEM to STEAM can also impact the way students synthesize abstract mathematical concepts and make new brain connections, according to Denise Douglas-Faraci an associate professor at Kaplan University’s college of education who frequently works with teachers at the intersection of art and math. ”

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal? Speakers from University of Virginia, University of Maryland, MIT and University of Pennsylvania will share what works, what doesn’t and how they have built structures to support technology initiatives on their campuses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

work with Best Buy, Kaplan and Khan Academy. Aza Tulepbergenov, a third-year undergraduate at Boise State heads up a Google Developer Group chapter on campus that provides mentoring and support for young developers. Universities, as well as online education programs like Udacity or technology bootcamps, have.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Technology is changing the way almost all industries work beyond recognition. Technology itself is changing rapidly, and so too are the accompanying necessary skills. Technology has to be applied to deliver better learning, not to simply be “cool.” It’s also changing the nature of what skills humans need to succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Nearly 400 now offer credentials in cybersecurity , for example, for which demand is growing three times faster than for other IT jobs , according to the labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies. When Steve Thorsett crunched the numbers, things looked grim.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

In his new position as president, Singer will have more time and freedom to stoke the “technology transformation” that the College Board has undergone in recent years, he says, and will play a more active role in helping the organization embrace innovation across new and existing programs. There’s a ton that’s in the works,” Singer says. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Later there might be a story read aloud or a group activity mixing paints to make new colors before Jones dives into another round of one-on-ones. That’s not unlike what many TV producers already know when they write television for this age group,” Hirsch-Pasek says. You’ll notice they do it in 15-minute segments.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Teachers and the Future of Education" (the importance of teacher voice in education discussions, "Hack Your Education" (thinking about self-directed learning--Audrey''s in this proposal), and "Technology, Pedagogy, and the Silver Bullet" (addressing the myopia of some ed tech business ventures). decreases from the fourth quarter of 2010.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

You end up with a tutor and a group of 12 [students]. That’s what the continuing education group at most schools do, for the most part. You don't see that many degree programs in continuing ed groups. Even the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue University represents a different competitive approach. What does that mean?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

There are many unanswered questions about the unprecedented sale of Kaplan University, a for-profit institution with several online programs but falling enrollments, to Purdue University, one of the top public universities in the nation. Is Kaplan now essentially competing with companies like 2U and other so-called ‘enabler’ providers?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My And pregnancy is more common among Hispanic teens than among teens in any other racial or ethnic group, except American Indian and Alaska Native teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

General Assembly, one of the pioneers of the “bootcamp” model for coding and technical-skills training, found a buyer : the Swiss HR firm Adecco Group. education technology investors is creating a new fund to support deals overseas. The Biggest Deal of the Week….happened The all-cash deal: $412.5 Going Global One the most prolific U.S.

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Higher-Ed Groups Warn Against Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students.” ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes. More on the Kaplan news via The Chronicle of Higher Education. ” Via Campus Technology : “BYU Researchers Aim to Stop Robots from Eating Tables with Wikipedia.” Via Campus Technology : “ Education Data Breaches Double in First Half of 2017.”

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