ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the founder and CEO of the tutoring platform Outschool points out, there’s quite a big difference between a 17-year-old user and a 3-year-old user. But families wanted their younger kids to have access to age-appropriate classes on the tutoring site, too. In that case, why not increase the lifespan of their product? Can he join?”

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Part of that is ruthlessly reevaluating the edtech purchases that San Antonio Independent — a large urban district that serves almost 45,000 students — made during the pandemic. That means that while the edtech industry took off during the pandemic, it’s now coming down. Education Department is greenlighting extension requests.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. But Jeff Bezos is known for playing the long game, and public education is very much part of it, opines Dominik Dresel, a school administrator and edtech entrepreneur. “I

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

Similarly, interoperability standards like Caliper Analytics and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) ensure that edtech tools can work together without disruption when institutions switch vendors or adopt new technologies. What work still needs to be done?

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

If I’m in need of a tutor, or an editor, or a professor’s help, is that not “receiving assistance from another person”? AI As On-Campus Tutor Perhaps one of the most potent examples I’ve heard is that challenging concepts often stop students in their tracks. Technologists have long dreamed of this vision of a “computer-assisted” tutor.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Summer and after-school programming, tutoring, truancy intervention, teacher hiring and training, and improved data systems are all part of the solution. Edtech plays an increasingly important role in the classroom. But some doubt whether funds are being spent on the most impactful edtech.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Scale Tutoring for the 1:1 Experience Scaled tutoring strategies can save teachers from needing to be in 30 places at once delivering 30 unique and personalized lessons.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

There’s a push among AI developers to create an AI tutor , and some see that as a key use case for tools like ChatGPT. But one longtime edtech expert sees an even better fit for new AI chatbots in education: helping educators design course materials for their students.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

When it comes to AI in education, one edtech company stands out as a sage leader and trailblazing pioneer. Since we spoke with Malkin when he became CEO seven years ago, Carnegie has added 500 new employees, 500 part-time tutors, four new adaptive AI products, countless research projects and a new Canadian headquarters.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Even online tutoring companies like Tutor.com may see a decline in business thanks to the arrival of algorithm-generated writing, says edtech columnist Phill Hill. Chegg might actually become a lucrative customer for ChatGPT, says Matt Tower, an education industry analyst who writes a newsletter about edtech. Bad for Business?

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently posted a video demo of him using a prototype of his organization’s chatbot Khanmigo, which has these features, to tutor his teenage son. Even so, the video went viral and sparked debate about whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For example, through a research partnership with the University of Toronto, the Puerto Rico Department of Education’s project implemented the Spanish version of the AI-powered personalized tutoring tool Khanmigo in two schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For businesses, artificial intelligence has proven immensely profitable, by some accounts even lifting the overall amount of funding flowing to edtech last year. But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism.

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ED Surge

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. EdSurge recently sat down with the developers of the tool, custom-made for the district by Boston-based AI company AllHere, for a demo, to try to find out.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

million , and the company has shed other assets—including its popular tutoring business, TutorMe, which it sold to GoGuardian for $55 million in May. That fits a pattern of universities reasserting control over functions previously outsourced to OPMs, says edtech analyst Matt Tower, a principal at Workshop Venture Partners.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. So it’s helpful if each voice-based edtech company offers every tool these educators might need. Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed. This is a big game changer, especially for teachers who create content, do virtual tutoring, hold virtual office hours or interact with parents online. No prototype. It made such a difference!

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Bleak Staffing Numbers To make accelerated learning possible, schools needed enough staff to provide small-group student tutoring. To execute its vision of providing high-dosage tutoring , one district hired full-time tutors to work during school hours.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

LeSiege believed his prewritten hints and explanations were helping his students and Heffernan wondered if all students might benefit from having a virtual tutor hover over their shoulders during homework time. To build the crowdsourced hint system, the researchers paid 13 teachers to write hints.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Why must we replace opportunities to interact with teachers and tutors with artificial intelligence and adaptive systems? The answer is that caring doesn’t scale – and given the choice between the two, mainstream edtech chooses to scale.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 9, 2024

Imagine a new educational paradigm: virtual tutors provide real-time assistance, ensuring no students are left behind. Interactive simulations and virtual reality experiences engage learners in immersive educational adventures, making lessons come alive.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Since behavior is highly context specific, we can’t reasonably expect to generalize across different games, virtual environments, intelligent tutoring systems, or any other interfaces that humans use. Change one element and the context changes.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment.

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Edthena

JUNE 14, 2022

While acting as a mentor for other teachers, Susanne also tutors many students throughout the school community and is involved in students’ sports tournaments and afterschool programs. Described as a positive team player, Susanne Smock is a pre-kindergarten teacher at Elim Aniguiin School in Alaska. Donna McDaniel.

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Edthena

APRIL 21, 2021

Online tutoring and other student-support services. One unanticipated benefit was that it helped them better understand the competing pressures in their students’ lives. Combined, these strategies led professors to see the link between engagement and learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Blending intelligent tutoring and personalized feedback, the Primer covers a wide variety of relevant academic subjects, along with social-emotional and critical-thinking skills. Set in the near future, “Diamond Age” introduces an interactive, AI learning platform called A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The district hired dedicated remote tutors to support temporary online learners and developed protocols for identifying and tracking remote students. Last year, teachers in Salem Public Schools in Massachusetts had difficulty keeping track of which students were in quarantine, for how long and what individualized supports they needed.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Extensive tutoring programs, both locally and nationally, and accelerated academics are two strategies that could help students recover from Covid learning loss. A tutoring model exists in the Minnesota Reading Corps , an initiative now expanding to 12 other states. Read more on EdSurge: Remote Learning Is Not Going Away Soon.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 30, 2020

K-12 educators have long-held tutoring and work-space time for their students after school, and the idea of virtual office hours is comparable to this. This allows students to have more direct interaction as they can have one-on-one time with the teacher if no other student is present in the meeting.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. Nitta says he was optimistic that Watson could power a generalized tutor, but he knew the task would be extremely difficult. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

Schools report that students are receiving more tutoring sessions when they’re scheduled during the school day without competing instructional activities at the same time. Tutoring is by far the most effective way to help children catch up at school, according to rigorous research studies.

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ED Surge

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. One of those companies, the online tutoring service Paper, got $10.7

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

In similar fashion, problematic edtech companies with grand visions and little follow-through don’t just affect the investors pouring funds into the space; they also potentially put learners into compromising situations. But who was—or is—the Theranos of the education sector? Yet, fast forward to 2022, and AltSchool no longer exists.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Rwanda, an African edtech leader, plowed on with the (formerly) UN-backed One Laptop Per Child initiative without explaining how teachers should work with them. educators were dissatisfied with the training they received; only 15 percent believed they had received satisfactory training in edtech. Bart Epstein, CEO of the U.S.-based

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

educators that lost their gigs tutoring students in China online once that country put in new restrictions against such businesses. And that’s no accident, according to Audrey Watters, a longtime critical observer of edtech who is out with a new book called “Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning.”

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