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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. percent in all of 2015 and only 0.2 market from 6 percent of the total shipments of non-desktop PC devices in 2015 to 18 percent in 2017. million shipments from 5.7

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Broadband Provides More Equitable Access to Education and Workforce Preparation

edWeb.net

Digital learning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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FOLLOW THE MONEY: FUNDING INNOVATION

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Designed to support the installation and upgrade of data networks inside school and library buildings, more than 75 percent of applicant sites nationwide have requested Category Two support since Funding Year 2015. What are the one-, two-, and five-year goals for terms of digital learning? ? How do they use those devices? ?

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Why Should Students and Publishers Adapt eBooks in STEM Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

eBooks thus provide a collective learning experience at all times. Students can access various online assessments and activities that are created to improve their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. And even they are moving towards creating digital learning resources. Develops Problem-solving Skills.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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