The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 1, 2014

In two previous posts, "Pearson PowerSchool Disasters in NC and Tech Lessons to Be Learned From It" and "Update! Pearson Sees Most of NC Users as Satisfied with PowerSchool Huh?" I outlined the major issues North Carolina public schools are navigating due to Pearson''s malfunctioning PowerSchool software.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Yesterday, I posted about the many issues we are struggling with North Carolina’s roll-out of the Pearson’s PowerSchool student data system. Today, there was an article of interest on the News and Observer web site entitled “NC Schools Dealing with Problem-Plagued State Computer System.” Now that statement is a bit puzzling.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It’s too bad the state of North Carolina recently forgot this important wisdom when it took on implementing Pearson’s PowerSchool student data system, a new online educator evaluation system called NCEES, or North Carolina Educator Evaluation System, and a new teaching assessment resource system called Schoolnet.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced Education Technology finalists. 2023 CODiE AWARD EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY FINALISTS Best Administrative Solution Lightspeed Digital Insight, Lightspeed Systems Qwickly Attendance, Qwickly, Inc.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2015

Two-way integration between Pearson PowerSchool and Canvas LMS streamlines processes for K-12 teachers. Instructure, the creator of the Canvas learning management system (LMS) for K-12, announced at SXSWedu that it has partnered with Pearson to integrate the Canvas LMS with student information system PowerSchool.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 29, 2016

The stock price for Pearson PLC , the world’s largest education business, dropped precipitously Friday after its announcement of a 7 percent decline in underlying sales to about $2.5 Pearson’s stock drops after half-year results are announced. Kevin Capitani has been named president for Pearson, North America.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

With the software, called AIM, Patterson learned that some of the licenses purchased for the 3,000-plus students in her district, located between Huntsville and Birmingham, went unused. “We We had a [software] platform for remediation and realized it was used for a smaller group of students than we thought,” she said.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

That strategy paid off over 10 years ago when, as a graduate student at Brigham Young University, he found that his peers were disgruntled with the learning management system used on campus at the time. This time around, he’s targeted another behemoth in the education industry: publishers and their homework software.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

As more schools went online and demand for education software grew, more companies began designing and commissioning their own studies about their products. Others sell some of the most widely used education software in schools today. Pearson stands behind its findings. Related: Impact funds pour money into ed tech businesses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

The “attempted security incident” this month knocked out many of Illuminate Education’s digital services, including an online gradebook, Skedula, and a related parent-focused platform, PupilPath, which are used by New York’s public school system. The uptick is happening at a time of record spending on U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Each six-to-nine-month experience combines virtual instruction, in fields such as data science and software engineering, with personalized mentorship and project-based learning opportunities. Back then, the company was a search tool for identifying online courses. Today, it sells workforce training programs of its own.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Evans held similar titles at other large education companies, having previously served as CFO and chief operating officer of Renaissance Learning, a provider of instructional and assessment software, and as CFO of Ruffalo Noel Levitz, which develops tools to help colleges with fundraising and student enrollment.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2023

Level Data – which creates an easy system for enabling incredibly-accurate Student Information Systems (SIS) intuitive for the tasked school employees – is always looking for new and innovative ways to get the right information into the right hands of the right people at the right time in school districts everywhere. Level Data, Inc.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announces the 50 winners of the 2023 CODiE Awards in Education Technology. The winners were presented during a virtual awards celebration hosted on the NewSky XR secure online platform on June 22.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Some of the most common jobs that exist today are doctors, engineers, software developers, lawyers, teachers, and so on. The problem is that educational systems have not kept pace with these advancements. Below you can find a full list of important skills extracted from the Future of Skills report , created by Pearson.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 2, 2016

Buys LTS Education Systems : The online education provider recently acquired ed-tech company LTS Education Systems for $20 million, according to a transcript of the company’s third quarter earnings call last week. Pearson to Sell GlobalEnglish Corp.: Pearson purchased the company in 2012 for $90 million in cash.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

These encompassing assessments — in combination with data collection tools, such as an interoperable “digital backpack” system — can alert teachers to unusual student behavior and identify roadblocks that may be getting in the way of a student grasping the material. . integrated with HP Chromebooks. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 7, 2015

There are lots of servers and a left hand setup for files and databases, along with appliances for different types of software. We are still maintaining some systems and file servers, as well as an Exchange server, but most school systems can get away from that. However, much of it is legacy now.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

That raises the question: is the move to digital homework systems creating a new kind of digital divide at colleges? And the university says it has gotten no grant from Cengage, and that it makes no money from the homework system. On Amazon, the book alone sells for $148 without the MindTap software.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

Unanswered Questions The choice of Course Hero as a host seems odd, Alexander adds, when there were other, less controversial options out there such as MERLOT System, an international association that supports OER, or the Internet Archive. Halpern of Libretext suggests there’s a shift going on in OER as well.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Earlier this year Ferreira stepped aside as CEO, replaced by Brian Kibby , a veteran of major textbook companies including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Early on, Pearson had embraced Knewton’s technology and even invested in the company, but this year that publisher decided to pull back on the use of Knewton’s platform.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Before that, she founded education advisory company Quantum Thinking, was an entrepreneur-in-residence and senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, and worked for Kaplan, Pearson, Ellucian, Blackboard and Oracle. “I Zoom has open LTI, API and SDK—an alphabet soup of acronyms that help product developers connect software.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 9, 2012

Pearson Promo/Intro to OpenClass Just discovered Pearson''s OpenClass , a learning management system with social and collaboration tools. OpenClass is totally free and integrates with Google Apps For Education which we have at our school, so the system is definitely worth a look for our institution! Or does it?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

As Thompson moved among his students, he wielded a slim remote control with a button-activated microphone he uses to command the AI software. At first, Thompson told the AI to start a three-minute timer that popped up on the smartboard, then he began asking rapid-fire review questions from a previous lesson, such as what causes wind. “And

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Few companies have tackled the full range of learners since the days when Pearson was touted as the world’s largest learning company. For instance: Using a tablet’s camera and Osmo’s artificial intelligence software, the system tracks what a child is doing on a (physical) worksheet and responds accordingly to right and wrong answers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

Some publishers pay an annual license fee for branded versions of BibliU’s software. Pearson, one of the publishers featured on the platform, recently reported that its print U.S. The platform also works with most learning management systems used by higher-ed institutions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Before we can discern what to look for in a good blended learning system, what common misconceptions to watch out for, and what to avoid we should first clarify the term. Some school systems think that providing students with a digital learning program to replace in-class instruction will eliminate the problems of poor teaching.

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techlearning

JANUARY 23, 2019

Certiport, provider of performance-based IT certification exams, today announced the release of Compass, a new web-based exam delivery system powered by Microsoft Azure.    Compass is exclusive to Certiport and Pearson VUE and can test candidates in multiple languages with secure browser-based software.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

Pearson has bowed out (but started its own investment fund ). Zyante, the maker of zyBooks, was founded in 2012 by two professors from the University of California system. Textbook publishers, once considered likely and logical buyers for education technology startups, have lost a bit of their appetite.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A recommended strategy is that comprehensive cybersecurity courses include the 30 critical concepts such as IT literacy, concepts, terminology, software, virtualization, hardware and system administration, and networks such as Linux and Windows. However, they should be comforted to know that there are many resources available.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. “At the most general level,” Srnicek writes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

He says the tools from Spain have quality content for Spanish speakers, and for English tools, tech providers such as Pearson and Mcgraw Hill have sufficed in the past, but he is looking for more STEM learning tools now. “I Limin Chen “They want adaptive learning tools, STEM products and learning management systems,” says Chen. “If

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

The announcement reads like a laundry list of new laptop offerings, upgrades to existing software and plans for “sparking creativity” with STEM. In addition, Microsoft announced it has partnered with Pearson to release six new AR and VR apps for schools “in time for the upcoming school year to teach everything from anatomy to math.”

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2015

Mobile grading app joins forces with student information system, enabling teachers and administrators to take action based on real-time achievement data. “Quick Key and PowerSchool are a perfect match,” said Kyle Hansen, PowerSchool Administrator at American Leadership Academy in Spanish Fork, Utah.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2016

The report highlights various examples of how school systems are encouraging students’ digital creativity in an effort to demonstrate how this digital creativity improves engagement, personalizes learning, and promotes collaboration and expanded learning opportunities. Start with conversations. Start young. Redefine collaboration.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. From Courtroom to Classroom: An Inmate’s Tale : If prison is supposed to prepare inmates for society, then the current system is in dire need of improvement. 1:00 p.m.

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