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Two Discovery Education Services Win 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards

eSchool News

Through expanded, lasting partnerships with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Brightspace, and Clever, integrating Discovery Education’s K-12 learning platform into existing IT architecture is easier than ever.?. Congratulations to all of this year’s CODiE Award winners!”.

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PowerSchool to Acquire Kinvolved, Expanding K-12 Platform to Provide Critical Messaging and Communication Solution

eSchool News

PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinvolved, a leading provider of K-12 communications, attendance, and engagement solutions supporting over 250,000 students and used within three of the top four school districts in the U.S. FOLSOM, Calif.

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When Education Giants Stumbled and Data Ruled

Edsurge

Todd Brekhus’ industry experience dates as far back as the early 2000s at PLATO, and later at myON. Companies that aim to provide student data in a usable fashion, like Schoology , still provide value. Another problem the industry has created stems from those monolithic all-in-one systems the big publishers created.

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Learning Management Systems: Who are they for?

Reading By Example

Google Classroom , Schoology and Edmodo fall into this category. eLearning Industry. Facebook Helps Develop Software That Puts Students in Charge of Their Lesson Plans. Now, students can submit their work electronically through the LMS. The teacher can assess learning online. The excuse “My dog ate my homework” ceases to exist.

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Learning Management Systems: Who are they for?

Reading By Example

Google Classroom , Schoology and Edmodo fall into this category. eLearning Industry. Facebook Helps Develop Software That Puts Students in Charge of Their Lesson Plans. Now, students can submit their work electronically through the LMS. The teacher can assess learning online. The excuse “My dog ate my homework” ceases to exist.

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

Edsurge

Launched in 2000, it developed Study Island, a computer-based test-prep software tied to state standardized tests. The second includes the “platform” players—Schoology, itslearning, Canvas, and other LMS-like platforms. So what is the state of the industry? Now there’s a large and growing edtech investment industry.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

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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