Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A less frothy but steadily growing edtech market is emerging in Europe, where investment check sizes often have fewer zeros. Case in point: Brighteye Ventures, a Paris-based edtech investment firm, has raised $54 million in the first close for its second fund. Source: Brighteye Ventures: “ The European EdTech Funding Report 2020.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

With COVID-19 jeopardizing in-school learning, we expect the widespread adoption of edtech software to continue, and this is not a short-term trend,” says Jeff Lieberman, a managing director at Insight Partners, a private equity firm that has backed nearly two dozen education companies. And that has private investors piqued. In the U.S.,

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2021. The past six months have reaffirmed that engagement is central to student learning, regardless of the instructional environment. Lupita Knittel, President, 7 Mindsets.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

i-Ready continues to be a standout in the edtech space, in part, because it is always improving to meet the changing needs of educators and students alike,” said Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates. A midyear and end-of-year Diagnostic help students and teachers measure growth and engage together in data chats.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 3rd most-read story focuses on immersive and interactive learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies churned out crisis plans for remote instruction in hopes of carrying on, at the very least, until summer break. Under circumstances such as these, attendance data becomes increasingly important. When COVID-19 forced the mass closure of schools across the U.S.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

If we’re being honest — and we’ll look at the data in a second — most of them fall woefully short of any kind of meaningful change for students. Sixty-three percent said the use of video helped increase the relevancy and quality of instructional materials. And change is desperately needed. How is that represented?

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2022

The report, Student Growth during COVID-19: Grade-Level Readiness Matters , analyzes data gathered from the edtech company’s i-Ready Assessment tool for reading and mathematics from more than two million Grades 1–8 students who used i-Ready Diagnostics during the last three school years, using student testing location (i.e.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The first report, The State of Student Learning in 2022 , analyzes reading and mathematics data gathered from nearly two million Grades 1–8 students during the 2021–2022 school year via the edtech company’s i-Ready Assessment tool. About Curriculum Associates.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2022

With a proven ability to build solid relationships, Coleman is in charge of creating and supporting new and ongoing partnerships with school district leaders and educational stakeholders in the implementation of assessment, instruction, and professional development products and services. To learn more about NABSE, visit NABSE.org.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

they will be producing the “Best of ISTE” podcast live on site featuring interviews with leading edtech presenters, educators and creators. Visit CA’s booth to learn about their research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools, including i-Ready and Ready Classroom Mathematics.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

One of the great promises of the increased adoption and use of technology in public education is the availability of new tools to collect and analyze data about how best to meet the individual needs of students, support educators, and allocate scarce resources.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Some states, such as Nevada, also restrict the use of state supplemental academic intervention funds to programs that meet federal research standards and are elevating the importance of evidence-based and high-quality instructional materials. That data is then fed into program and budget review cycles.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. As a result, edtech scholars and educators express concern about growing corporate influence in the public-school sphere. But these options, too, come with a catch.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

With support from ED, state leaders, and new platforms for curation and discovery, there has never been a more exciting time to rethink traditional, static instructional materials. From proposed rulemaking, to information on open data, this is a great first stop for your information gathering. Stories of EdTech Innovation.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. These gains led the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to single out Johnston County as the most improved school district in the state.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Digital Promise’s Research-Based Design Product Certification recognizes the edtech products that incorporate research about learning into their design and development. We design rigorous research studies, multifaceted data analytic reporting, and dynamic content to disseminate insights. Visit www.LXDResearch.com.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms—can and do actually work. Digital Promise sought to isolate one “signal” of high-quality edtech products—as CEO Karen Cator puts it—and zero in on that.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

He has also won the Northeastern US Regional YPO Social Impact Award and EdTech Digest ’s CEO of the Year. Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. To learn more about ATP, visit TestPublishers.org.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Buoyed by examples of new and significant commitments to OER by companies large and small, governments of all levels, and schools, it is easy to see that the future of instructional materials over the next decade will look very different than it has over the last decade. K-12 OER Movement appeared first on EdTech Strategies.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Full-service VTTC members, like FEV Tutor, will provide end-to-end services, including instructional materials, tutoring platforms and trained tutors. “We Those findings are regularly shared with teachers to help them evaluate student growth and course success as well as deliver data-driven instruction. About FEV Tutor.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

What are the benefits of using an edtech tool for formative assessment? Formative assessments are generally used for planning future instruction and for helping students drive their own learning. In terms of future instruction, how you use assessment data most depends on what kind of results you get.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst of Simba Information, all of these could impact the instructional materials marker. Mickey said that there have been bursts of interest in SEL programs in the past, but she thinks their longevity depends on integrating them with other subjects rather than as stand-alone materials.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Teachers cite the challenges of remote instruction as a top reason for leaving their jobs during the pandemic. And kids double down on digital reading—all in this Edtech Reports Recap. Every year, Renaissance Learning publishes what it calls the world’s largest annual study of K-12 reading habits, the “ What Kids are Reading ” report.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

Benemann: There’s so much more data than ever before. For us at EruditeAI, data is more precious than revenue. With better data, we can better train our algorithms. Kireyev: We’re seeing a data explosion in education content—both data for and from students. Transparent data collection is incredibly valuable.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 7, 2024

Today, the shift towards digital content as the primary instructional material is undeniable. Teachers are now creating interactive academic course material with the help of learning management systems such as Moodle and distributing it to students at large.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The privately-held education company used to focus on making print instructional materials for K-12 schools. How did you transition from a traditional company focused on providing workbooks to an edtech company? We used the success of that and actually the learning of that—from the Common Core—to start on the edtech side.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Teachers won’t ask for help even when student formative data shows they need it if their request for help is misunderstood or even worse – used against them. However, with a few exceptions, edtech seems to dominate the teaching videos available on YouTube. Just In Time Resources.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

The curriculum also provides teachers with access to student progress data to help determine which students need intervention and where, thus supporting their unique needs. Real-time data and in-depth reports help teachers track student performance and provide details that let them know precisely where students need interventions.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2023

That’s why I have compiled a list of what I think, based on my long experience of reviewing hundreds of edtech apps, are some of the best apps for schools! Whether you need to present complex data in an interesting format for school or work, these infographic making apps are great: Adobe Express Desygner Design Lab 8.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. Tackling the $6 billion instructional materials market almost always requires displacing a product, program or service already in use. billion or so.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

More likely, they’ll encounter these materials as recommended purchases. The company claims it can predict what users may need or want to study next, based on data collected about their study habits. Today, the graveyard of K-12 edtech marketplaces is littered with stalled attempts, many from companies that are no longer around.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

As internet users, we implicitly understand that if we’re not paying for a commercial service, our data — and the content we create — are being commodified and sold to others. Revelations about the privacy practices of Facebook only serve to underscore the stakes surrounding the capture and use of personal data. Related: Psst!

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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