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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Certiport Names 2023 Microsoft Office Specialist US National Champions

eSchool News

This year marks 21 years since the competition began in 2002. Finalists were given a printed copy of a document, spreadsheet, or presentation to recreate along with printed instructions and digital assets. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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In a Changing Career Landscape, Employers and Workers Need a New Social Contract for Retraining

Edsurge

Many would point to the high-profile announcements of expanded tuition-assistance programs from companies such as Starbucks , McDonald’s , Walmart and Chipotle as evidence of increased employer investment in employee development. This trend is laudable, and it is having an impact—but it masks a much more mixed picture.

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Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source

Iterating Toward Openness

Confusion over the meaning of the word “free” (e.g., ‘if my company uses programs licensed as free software, does that mean I can’t charge customers?’) ’) was the original fear, uncertainty, and doubt that kept companies from engaging in this work. And yet, there were problems.

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Join Us in Chicago for the Fourth Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 15, 2019

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Since 2002, Mortenson has led the organization through significant national expansion, reaching more than 655,000 middle and high school youth and 4,500 educators across 25 states and 5 countries, from offices based in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Searsport had started transitioning to a standards-based diploma in 2002, after receiving a share of a $10-million school reform grant that Gates had made to the Sen. So far, none of the academies are in Maine.

Learning 111
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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy. The first is that a company is unlikely to publish unfavorable results. That might allow an education product company to measure what they’re teaching more precisely. That’s an archive of research that the U.S.

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