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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

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Sponsor: It’s a new year and time to plan your professional development with Advancement Courses. They offer over 280 online graduate-level PD courses in 20 subject areas. And right now, you can save 20% off each course with the code COOL20 — that’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours.

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

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Since 2016, a California company has set out to make Montessori mainstream through building and acquiring a network of schools and technologies, and offering professional development programs to prepare future Montessori teachers and leaders. based company has raised $70 million in venture capital. To date, the Lake Forest, Calif.-based

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Game-Based Learning Gains Steam in Higher Education: Triseum Raises $1.43 Million to Transform Educational Experiences for Students

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New investment into Triseum continues to provide growth opportunities for a company already breaking barriers with over 40 percent of its staff being female. “This combination is enabling us to expand course subjects and grade levels throughout educational systems around the world.”. . Triseum announces new funding round of $1.43

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What Can Traditional Higher Ed Learn From Hamburger U?

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And as they do their homework on how to set up and run their online programs, some colleges are even looking to other sectors, like the corporate trainings that big companies run for their employees online. Kidwell: Back in 2003, real estate was a crazy market. Berkshire Hathaway is not a bad company to be in league with.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

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Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now.

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Teaching from Home and Still Making a Difference: Meet Katharine from 51Talk

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I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. After finishing I decided I still had a lot of the world that I wanted to see, so I enrolled in a TEFL course in Guadalajara, Mexico. I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts in 2002.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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And it doesn't help, of course, that there is, in general, a repudiation of history within Silicon Valley itself. By "many people," of course I mean Jared and Ivanka. We already have, of course. Do the math there on the per course costs.) The former would pay $200 a course; the latter $250.