EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Spark Education | November 22, 2022
Spark Education Group (Spark Education), a world leader and innovator in interactive live small-class learning, announced a joint venture with Everest Education (Everest), a leading provider of premium offline and online education services in Vietnam, to bring world-class online learning to Vietnam. Since 2018, Spark Education's portfolio of brands have enrolled over half a million students in its programs. The company is backed by top investors including Sequoia, KKR, IDG Capital, GGV Capital, TrustBridge, Carlyle, and more. Everest helps students in Vietnam to gain entrance and succeed in international academic environments, offering Math and English enrichment courses, test prep, college admissions consulting, and private tutoring to students from Grade 1 to Grade 12. This collaboration merges Everest's online business with Spark Education's proprietary technology platform and courseware, localized for the Vietnamese market. The joint venture localizes VISPARK (www.vispark.edu.vn), and launches with its math program based on Singapore Math concepts taught in Vietnamese. This partnership leverages the competitive strengths of both Spark Education and Everest to bring an innovative learning experience to the Vietnamese market, improving the learning experience of local students.Don Le, CEO of Everest Education, shares his vision for the partnership, "Spark Education has invested over $100M into research and development of the VISPARK curriculum, including high-quality animations, interactive courseware, and a proven technology system that has served more than 500,000 students worldwide. We believe that Spark Education's R&D budget is more than the total amount invested by the entire Vietnamese edtech market. By partnering with Spark Education, Everest gains access to the most engaging learning platform with a track record of scaling successfully."
"We are proud to enter into this partnership with Everest Education, who has already established a strong reputation among Vietnamese families for amazing international learning outcomes through their learning centers and online small classes. They will help us localize our global offering for the unique needs of Vietnamese students, and we look forward to empowering K12 students throughout the country together."
Wilson Li, CSO & CFO of Spark Education Group
About Spark Education Group
Founded in 2017, Spark Education Group is headquartered in Singapore. Its portfolio of education brands aims to combine research-based pedagogy with technology to improve the learning experience and outcomes for students. It was recently awarded "Best Interactive Learning Experience" at EdTech Asia in 2022.
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CORPORATE LEARNING SYSTEMS
Cornerstone | September 14, 2022
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., a leader in adaptive HR solutions, today announced several advancements to EdCast, the industry-leading Learning Experience Platform (LXP) acquired by Cornerstone in May 2022. New skills capabilities, deepened cross-platform integrations and more intuitive insights and dashboards top the list of the latest capabilities being delivered since the acquisition to help customers improve people growth and business productivity. In the past five months, we have made tremendous strides in strengthening the connections between the EdCast and Cornerstone offerings,” said Himanshu Palsule, CEO of Cornerstone. Our priority is to deliver more value to combined customers and their users, while ensuring the EdCast LXP is still open, independent and available broadly to any organization with different learning management tools. We are invested in EdCast and bringing to life innovation that revolutionizes the learning and development market.
Some of the most recent enhancements to EdCast include:
Enriched User Experience: EdCast customers can now take advantage of an updated user experience across products and channels based on a new design system. The new experience provides improved user experience consistency across the platform, visual design with more modern visual identity, improved accessibility standards and more seamless connection between mobile and desktop.
Enhanced Learner & Manager Dashboards: Updates to EdCast’s learner dashboard allow employees to connect to one another more intuitively, track their progress, manage their skills profiles and further personalize their learning experience. Manager dashboards provide new actionable insights with a singular view of how their teams are learning, what skills they have and at what level, and assign new relevant and timely learning content to engage them as an active participant in their team’s development.
New In the Flow of Work Integrations: The next evolution of the EdCast Integrations Hub includes an enterprise-level workflow automation platform with ready-to-use connectors across a variety of enterprise applications and content providers, and the ability to create customized connectors, ensuring customers can seamlessly incorporate learning into the platforms their people are already using. This includes EdCast’s latest integration with Zoom Video Communication, Inc., which embeds learning and training tools within Zoom Meetings to drive productivity and upskilling in the flow of work.
Subject Matter Expert (SME) Empowerment: The EdCast platform now offers more power to internal SMEs so they can share their knowledge and skills with others across their organization. Employees can create their own learning badges to showcase and celebrate skill development and expertise. Employees can also share certification on LinkedIn to promote their skills outside of their organization.While Cornerstone is committed to keeping the EdCast product open and platform-agnostic, the company has also invested in deeper integrations with Cornerstone's existing learning and talent solutions. Together, joint customers will have improved end-to-end content experiences for learners regardless of where they consume learning via a native inline player. A new integration between EdCast and the Cornerstone Skills Graph opens up a taxonomy of over 53,000 skills to develop skill profiles and make skill recommendations based on job roles.
Following its acquisition by Cornerstone, EdCast continues to receive industry recognition for its outstanding leadership in the market. Most recently, MyGuide, the Digital Adoption Product (DAP) offering from EdCast, was recognized as a major contender in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix for DAP Technology.
"EdCast is a critical part of our product portfolio at Cornerstone, and our team is diligently focused on doing what we originally set out to do when we launched EdCast: provide the best learning experience platform on the market,The amount of integration progress we’ve made in this short amount of time is astounding, and we have long-term plans to continue at this pace of innovation and transform learning at work.”
Karl Mehta, Managing Director, EdCast by Cornerstone
About Cornerstone
Cornerstone powers the future-ready workforce with adaptive HR solutions designed to unite technology, data and content and inspire a work environment of growth, agility and success for all. With an AI-powered, skills-forward, experiential system designed for the contemporary workforce, we help organizations modernize their learning and development experience, deliver the most relevant content from anywhere, accelerate talent and career mobility and establish skills as the universal language of growth and success across their business. Cornerstone serves over 7,000 customers and 90M users and is available in 180 countries and 50 languages.
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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY, ONLINE EDUCATION
Dahua Technology | September 26, 2022
Dahua Technology, a world-leading video-centric smart IoT solution and service provider, officially released the Dahua DeepHub Pro Series at its online global launch. Equipped with ultra-low-latency writing, one-tap wireless screen sharing, built-in camera & microphone and other advanced AI functions, Dahua DeepHub delivers a flexible, multimedia approach to teaching and conferencing, providing participants with an immersive, interactive and content-rich experience.
“Dahua DeepHub combines Dahua's advantages in core technologies such as video, audio and high-definition video transmission to offer a complete range of smart interactive whiteboards. From entry-level Lite Series to high-end Pro Series, this product meets the growing digitalization and collaboration demands of both business and education customer groups in the modern-day IoT world,”
Josh Wang, Product Manager of Dahua DeepHub.
The online launch highlighted several features of Dahua DeepHub. For instance, it utilizes Zero Air Gap Technology on the screen to reduce parallax for clearer image display. Ink signal latency is also optimized, providing approximately 50 pages or 1,500 strokes of continuous writing. To enhance visual output and operation, Dahua DeepHub utilizes powerful AI functions including Handwriting Recognition that can recognize intelligible handwritten texts and shapes, and Gesture Control to easily operate the device anywhere in the room. It can even automatically detect and focus on the current speaker for better interaction. Also, on-screen materials can be displayed onto other devices in the room and be edited in real-time through the Two-way Sharing function. Dahua DeepHub also supports SIMS device management system, allowing IT personnel to fully grasp the operating status of the device. It has flagship smartphone-level chip equipped with 8 execution engine GPU to ensure image rendering capability, and an NPU that offers five tops computing power – another unprecedented feature in the industry. Furthermore, it operates using a single Type C cable that can replace HDMI, audio and touchscreen cables, and can supply power to external devices. It supports fingerprint access control, AirPlay, Chromecast, Miracast, and Eshare wireless connections, as well as Android 11 and Windows 10 operating systems that can be flexibly switched. The complete range of Dahua DeepHub Series marks a step forward towards Dahua's goal of empowering cities and enterprises with digital transformation through smart IoT technologies. With more models in the upcoming months, Dahua will continue to deliver better digital experience to global customers.
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