eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For some industries, 2020 was a boon to business. One of them is education–specifically online learning and virtual schools. Online learning is growing rapidly and is well-positioned to be the next big thing in education. Wall Street approves, industry sees cash infusion from investors.

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MindSpark

JANUARY 24, 2024

As industries evolve, so do the skillsets needed to be successful. At the heart of bridging the gap between education and industry lies career literacy – a tool that helps students navigate the workforce. It's not just about education; it's about forging a vital connection between the classroom and the changing industry landscape.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This used to mean enrolling at your local college or online institution. You may find a program that meets some of your requirements but not all and wonder if you should settle. The catalog include topics relevant to today’s K-12 education offered in a variety of approaches that meet teacher needs. Blended Learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

It’s the seventh edition of the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report. In the survey, chief online officers predicted that by 2025, programs and courses that mix on-campus and online learning experiences will become the norm for undergraduate students, graduate students and adult learners.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Home Is Where the Homeschooling Is Could greater public approval of homeschooling be an unexpected result of the pandemic’s forced experiment in remote online learning? parents with kids ages 4-18 who experienced online learning during the pandemic. And the pandemic year has taken a toll on U.S. percent to 11.1

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

Across the country, local networks known as Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are bringing together partners and resources to meet urgent needs and envision a new future for teaching and learning. Their collective efforts are meeting a range of needs—from internet access to devices to social-emotional supports.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Next Wave 2017 was the latest in an annual, invitation-only meeting series run by Ithaka , the nonprofit group behind JSTOR, ArtStor, the PORTICO digital archiving and preservation service, and Ithaka S&R, which conducts research on higher ed and technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Their course inspired both the term “MOOCs” and a whole new industry.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2021

It is a good start to give them a suitably modern laptop that can cope with the rigor of running Zoom meetings, wrangling Teams catch-ups and interfacing with the cloud-powered educational resources that are vital to remote learning at the moment. Mix things up with online learning resources & special events.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With school systems competing with industry employers for talent, many schools already struggled to hire enough CTE teachers to meet their needs. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), 28 states and territories have reported CTE teaching shortages to the U.S.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 23, 2024

Mobile learning platforms allow organizations to accommodate a growing workforce without significantly increasing expenses. They can scale to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes, making them a cost-effective and scalable solution for corporate training.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator. Like any business, the edtech industry includes actors that prioritize profit. This is not a condemnation of edtech as much as it is an acknowledgement that edtech is a business.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Here is an excellent example of an EdTech company that produces valuable content for educators.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. In essence, these opinions reflect what many people in the hospitality industry thought before AirBnB, or what taxi drivers thought before Uber. Skills gap.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Many of the jobs were in the retail and restaurant industries, which typically afford flexible hours to students but have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic closures. Meeting Student Needs Shifts in employment due to the pandemic created an increase in students seeking basic needs resources on their college campuses.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

WOBURN, MA & SAN FRANCISCO – JULY 20, 2022 – FEV Tutor (“FEV”), the K-12 market leading research and evidence-based online tutoring platform, today announced its partnership with Alpine Investors (“Alpine”), a people-driven private equity firm that is a Certified B Corporation committed to building enduring businesses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2019

This week for the podcast, we’re talking with someone who’s trying to build more “connective tissue” between academia and industry when it comes to reinventing college. That guest is Mitchell Stevens, a Stanford University professor who is the director of the Center for Advanced Research Through Online Learning.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 21, 2019

Many life-long learners have families, jobs, or other obligations that make online learning quite attractive. For these people, online courses can be an excellent alternative to a traditional classroom. There are hundreds of courses that one can pick and choose from in all types of industries.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2022

Access to online learning materials helps students manage their work/study schedules more effectively. Mathnasium Mathnasium is a website where you can find offline and online math tutors. Kids can get ahead in math by catching up, learning new concepts, and applying what they have already learned in real-life situations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

With the looming threat of students taking advantage of gap year opportunities for the 2020 to 2021 school year, and the unknown of just how long COVID-19 will last, colleges must commit ample resources to ensure high-quality learning for the students who decide to brave the unchartered waters of online, remote education for the fall 2020 semester.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

With coronavirus cooping people up in their homes and disrupting businesses across every industry, buckle down for leaner times. On the flip side, investors like Sequoia have plenty of “dry powder,” the industry parlance for cash on hand. Conserve cash. Reduce spend. He says his team usually fields about 100 inquiries each month.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

New York’s Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI) is part of a network of Montessori-inspired middle schools, inheriting fifteen former students of AltSchool and its proprietary learning management system. Online learning benefits more students used to independent work, but it limits learning for all.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Online learning has come a long way since its early champions saw it as a supplement to classroom learning. And while online learning has more than proven itself to be both an alternative to and complementary offering for traditional classroom instruction, some misconceptions still persist.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The e-learning industry is booming and the technology that made this possible is constantly evolving. The latter are forced to look around for new options that promise to meet the needs of the modern learner and the modern school or college better than their obsolete counterparts. At least not any more. Cloud-based LMS.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Transfr uses virtual reality to develop immersive career and workforce training simulations for industries such as manufacturing, carpentry, public safety, hospitality and automotive. Taylor said the program has been a great fit for the Indiana clubs’ students because the simulations introduce them to industries they hadn’t thought about.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses. This move to online learning is here to stay. We’ll never rubber-band back to the old days.”.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 21, 2019

In her book The Consumerization of Learning , author Leilani Cauthen points out that education is becoming “consumerized.” Like every other industry, education consumers now expect an experience and consumer-like choice online. These are things that were missing in the early stages of online learning.

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edWeb.net

MAY 25, 2021

During the edWebinar, “ Educators Have Spoken… This Is What Industry Partners Need to Hear,” the speakers presented trends and observations from edWeb’s recent edFocus Industry Summit and offered advice for vendors on building and maintaining connections with their customers. Virtual sales meetings benefit both educators and vendors.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

But the course won’t be offered through a university, like many of the other online classes on Coursera. Instead it will be offered by Deeplearning.ai , an online learning company founded by none other than Ng himself. (He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The online learning platform offers extensive mental health support through an integrated curriculum. Online mental wellbeing service Kooth and online learning platform eduu.school, in partnership with Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust, GLUU and Hodder Education Group, today announced a co-curated mental health-focused curriculum.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 18, 2019

In her book The Consumerization of Learning , author Leilani Cauthen points out that education is becoming “consumerized.” Like every other industry, education consumers now expect an experience and consumer-like choice online. These are things that were missing in the early stages of online learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Andy Bird, Chief Executive of Pearson, said: “With the accelerating interest in digital learning across the globe, we need to meet consumers where they are. The opportunities that digital learning present in a world going through radical change and transformation are immense. ESPN/Disney and Turner Broadcasting.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2021

Rudy Blanco, their director of entrepreneurship and gaming programs, said, “Virtual counselors, moderators and online mentors will be the community builders of tomorrow. By training a diverse team of gamers that come from underrepresented communities, we can change the narrative and direction of an entire industry.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2021

BURLINGTON, VERMONT, August 4, 2021 – InSpace , a leading online communication platform built by educators for educators, is announcing a full integration with Canvas, the industry-leading learning management system (LMS) by Instructure , which serves 30 million teachers and students worldwide. AA, WCAG 2.1 About Instructure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Stachowiak suggests including at least three polls or opportunities to interact during each online class session. In fact, a lot of it's getting really critical, like, “What you're doing, that's not online teaching—you're not in the cool kids club.” What can I do in the next two days to be able to meet the needs?”

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2020

With the purchase of Hoonuit’s courses and learning delivery system, Infobase meets educators where they are, providing the knowledge they need to take action and help their students—and themselves—excel.”. Closing Learning Gaps and Using Technology to Enhance Learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

If you have an LMS you love, Google Classroom often won’t work well with it because it isn’t well-aligned with industry standards. a flexible curriculum planner that allows teachers to modify individual student learning pathways. workshops and online meetings. various online webtools that sync with Moodle.

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