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And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Public and private edtech companies felt the pain of these poor results, announcing more than 8,000 layoffs in an industry that only employs about 100,000 people. It’s a tough time to build or invest in an edtech company. Students across the U.S.

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JULY 31, 2024

The company was an edtech “unicorn” at its height — worth billions — and characterized as a “giant” in the space. Department of Education proposed regulations to increase oversight over distance education programs, including requiring additional reporting to better enable the government to monitor student outcomes.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

For Evangelina Mendoza, a chief information technology officer for San Antonio Independent School District in Texas, the impending end of federal pandemic relief money is forcing tough choices. Education Department is greenlighting extension requests. But how that’s impacting these districts seems to vary.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Using an array of digital communication technologies, messaging platforms and learning management systems, institutions were able to continue operations and maintain their student market share.

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MARCH 25, 2024

In the realm of education, it means breaking down barriers so that educational technologies and data systems can collaborate effectively, ultimately enhancing the educational experience for leaders, staff, specialists, teachers, students and parents. million students in over 880 LEAs.

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JUNE 2, 2023

For edtech firms, this partly means figuring out how to prevent their bottom line from being hurt, as students swap some edtech services with AI-powered DIY alternatives , like tutoring replacements. Primarily, for instance, it stresses that humans should be placed “firmly at the center” of AI-enabled edtech.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

However, a meaningful and useful picture is only possible if school systems can support educators to bring that data together securely. In most places, student data exists in silos, separated by the multiple edtech platforms within the schools’ data ecosystems.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

They were also concerned that access to Facebook data by third parties like government and police agencies may violate laws meant to protect student privacy. As an example, they pointed to a warning the Federal Trade Commission issued to edtech companies last year that stricter enforcement of a student data privacy law is on the horizon. “We

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Blair Levin, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro , formerly of the Federal Communications Commission, says that the government has effectively connected schools to what they need for internet access, leaving homes the next frontier of the digital divide in education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This will require action from all sides — policymakers, education leaders and education technology developers themselves. When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. I now also chair Ireland’s first A.I.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

edtech market recently. If you listen to the company’s chief executive, it’s thriving because it runs a hybrid model for its entrepreneurship training programs that, the company argues, keeps it growing when a lot of edtech companies have had to struggle with the return to in-person learning. edtech market.

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APRIL 22, 2024

According to edtech consultant Phil Hill in a recent blog post , most revenue-sharing ventures have either lost money or barely reached breakeven. government is worried it will go belly up soon, leaving students stranded. It’s a $4 billion industry, with about 550 U.S. When faculty gained experience, online was demystified.”

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Since generative AI disrupted the growing mix of educational solutions, academic researchers and transparency experts have emphasized t he urgent need for governments to fund systems that independently assess education technology tools for their safety, educational quality and potential to drive equitable student outcomes.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Being a government teacher and teaching about political elections, I'm really excited to apply what I’ve learned in my classroom. This will help me educate students on spotting deepfakes and discussing the possible implications. In government class the other day, we used AI to gather background information on past political parties.

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MAY 2, 2024

And we also talked with edtech experts to try to better understand this new tool and how it compares to other approaches for using AI in education. James Wiley, a vice president at the education market research firm ListEdTech. The stakes here are going to be pretty high if you get it wrong,” he says.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

Another report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education calls for more work to engage states on effective testing and implementation in their schools, and for the federal government to put more detailed guardrails and guidance in place.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the higher education setting, a lot goes into the governance structure around creating course content. As an edtech organization whose background is in standards and interoperability, 1EdTech is positioned to contribute here.

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MAY 4, 2022

To Coursera, the online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” that went public last year , this may represent an opportunity to serve as an institutional bridge for some of these universities in the struggle to stop the bleeding. The company’s latest quarterly results showed a much faster enterprise growth rate than consumer growth rate.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The op-ed, by longtime online education watcher Dhawal Shah, noted that according to the group’s most recent tax return, Axim is sitting on $735 million and had expenses of just $9 million in tax year 2023, with $15 million in revenue from investment income.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Due to the way current education systems are structured and how governments, philanthropy and others choose to invest their resources, these children will not get access to the quality early learning they deserve. Sachdeva: With any edtech initiative, there are barriers to access and digital literacy.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

When it comes to shifting views on edtech, district leaders’ outlooks weren’t particularly rosy. One of the report’s recommendations calls on the federal government to extend the deadline for emergency fund use , coming up soon in January 2023. Can they speed up their work to get older students ready for careers and college?

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Quarter after quarter, the results of a growing roster of publicly traded edtech companies—including Udemy, Coursera, 2U, and Duolingo, for example —symbolizes the market demand for lifelong learning and upskilling. According to a new national survey of C-suite executives that we recently conducted, 70 percent said that U.S.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

And government leaders are also pushing the trend: many state governors , for instance, have adopted skills-based hiring for state positions, and the U.S. House of Representatives’ Education and Workforce Committee is giving the approach attention. Department of Labor reported a near-record 9.5

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. The American Council on Education has agreed to be the kind of neutral referee host of it. And we've got a number of major-scale players.

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JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). LearnLaunch has graduated 31 #edtech companies and has 120 mentors.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

The pandemic also increased the adoption of online courses from corporations and governments around the world. And edX, feeling they couldn’t compete with Coursera without additional resources, decided to get acquired. In 2021, MOOC providers are looking beyond universities to create courses.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Some edtech companies are turning their efforts to mental health, and mental health tech is turning its attention to students. The organization gets its funding primarily through nonprofit and government grants, with some money collected via membership fees.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Noting that the Chinese government is very conservative, Wang remarked that the ministry is likely fearful that its academic reputation will suffer if it approved online degrees prematurely. With no experience teaching online, neither is the faculty ready.”

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

What this means for education is that there are more dollars to fund education technology, such as computer-generated lessons tailored for each student, and online learning. “We’re attacking really important systemic issues in education that I don’t think the school system or the government can,” said Young.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

The story of how educational technologies (edtech) make their way into our schools is very different. Understanding how these two approaches differ can help us see why our country urgently needs to change its approach to edtech if we expect this type of teaching and learning to succeed. Third is the risk of lawsuits.

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MARCH 1, 2022

By this point, calling edtech big business is probably an understatement. spent $100 billion on edtech during the last decade–with companies raising up to $8 billion in 2021 alone. But despite explosive growth in edtech spending, there’s still very little that’s known about which educational products actually work.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That shortage has become so desperate at times that state governments have even started letting their employees take paid time off to plug in the holes in missing staff, in an effort to keep schools from shuttering in-person learning. Schools across the country are dealing with a severe teacher shortage.

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JUNE 23, 2022

And it hasn’t been conducted because, at least so far, there’s been very little incentive for education technology providers to prove their products do what they say they do. It may well be that many of the 9,000 or so edtech products on the market work just as intended. Some could even be “transforming” education, as promised.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There’s growing interest among schools in looking for evidence of how effective edtech products are before making purchases, but leading advocates for efficacy research say more needs to be done. Right now, for example, the federal government doesn’t enforce its “tiers of evidence” framework which is meant to establish best practices.

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