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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

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What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1.

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Impero Software partners with Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program to Provide Schools with Student Safety and MDM Software

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6, 2018 – Impero Software, global specialists in remote monitoring and management software for education, has partnered with the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program, a statewide cooperative of Illinois K-12 educational entities, to provide Illinois schools with student safety software and mobile device management solutions.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. Even with competition on the rise from online course providers that have moved beyond education and into corporate learning, Scivally sees plenty of growth opportunities in the industry, he says.

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Don’t Rely on Cute Apps and Games to Teach Coding. Turn to Your Students Instead.

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Much evidence suggests our children’s careers, future industries, and our country’s prosperity will increasingly be shaped by these academic areas. In 2002, I founded a summer coding camp, SummerTech, located on the campus of Purchase College, SUNY. Teach straight coding with a standard editor , the software developers use to code.

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Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

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On paper, Weld North Education is made up of three companies: Edgenuity, a provider of online K-12 courses; Generation Ready, which offers K-12 professional development services; and Imagine Learning, which offers math and literacy software for elementary-grade students. Yet that’s not all.

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

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Software engineers must re-develop their skills every 12 to 18 months. In the finance and transportation industries, workers are likewise experiencing greater “skills instability”—or the need for more continuous retraining for workers to keep up in the increasingly digital economy—according to research from the World Economic Forum.

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

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In late 1997 and early 1998, the free software movement had two problems that were impeding its growth. First, the way its proponents talked about free software came across as incredibly judgmental and holier-than-thou. ’ If you didn’t support free software it was due to your personal moral shortcomings. .’

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