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Windows Server 2003 Migration Looms: Is Your School Ready?

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff Organizations that stay on the operating system face a host of IT challenges.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

Edsurge

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. Even within institutions, we're terrible at data.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

This isn’t because the internet is down or due to a device malfunction—it’s because the online gradebook isn’t able to share data with the student information system (SIS). When two systems don’t “speak” to one another or store data in the same format, it makes it hard to pass information back and forth.

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

Edsurge

The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds.

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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

link] (Big Data). She got started with integrating technology in the classroom in 2003 and dabbled with app design in File Maker and HTML. Here are a few… Teaching Python Resources Mentioned in this Show. teachingpython.fm – Kelly and Sean’s Show. Twitter: @ teachingpython. kellypared. link] (Calculating Pi).

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.

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Chief Privacy Officers: A Small But Growing Fleet in Higher Education

Edsurge

When Kathleen Sutherland took the helm as Chief Privacy Officer for the University of Colorado in 2003, there weren’t very many people in higher ed she could turn to for guidance and advice. There are so many types of data on our campuses now that there’s a need for a privacy officer more so than in other enterprises,” he says.

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