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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify. But Kenneth R.

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CDI’s Chromebook Division Reaches Milestone by Supporting more than 2,000 School and District Initiatives

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The company provides a variety of Chromebook custom services (white glove), device management, software, warranties, professional development, and the accessories needed to ensure successful implementation of the technology. The company holds ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications, and processes more than one million I.T.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups.

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How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

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Berenice Espino and her Quest for Space teammates had gathered in the engineering classroom to watch as a SpaceX rocket was launched into the atmosphere heading for the International Space Station, carrying onboard a science experiment they’d designed. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice.

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Flogging the Dead Horse of RSS

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Really Simple Syndication for me was the poster child technology for the era where the early internet began to shift from a place where only certain folks with technical skill and software could contribute to the web to a place where user-generated content was now dominant and more importantly, anyone could easily interact with that content.

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How Internships Connect First Generation College Bound Students to STEM Careers

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Berenice Espino and her Quest for Space teammates had gathered in the engineering classroom to watch as a SpaceX rocket was launched into the atmosphere heading for the International Space Station, carrying onboard a science experiment they’d designed. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

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We can flip the classroom. The EBS spectrum was first called ITFS (Instructional Television Fixed Service), back in 1963 when the FCC reserved it for broadcasting instructional TV in classrooms. Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice?