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Chegg to Buy Coding Bootcamp Thinkful for $80 Million

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For Chegg, founded in 2005, this latest acquisition will expand its direct-to-student learning platform and add more technology career courses. It expects total 2019 revenue of between $400 and $404 million, an increase from $398 million to $402 million reported in July. Chegg had been holding onto $1.1

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Capstone and Buncee Invite Classrooms to Help Share Holiday Cheer “Holiday Hugs” Program To Bring Messages and Books to Patients at Children’s Minnesota

eSchool News

December 3, 2021 – Capstone, an innovative publisher and education technology provider of children’s content for schools and home, and Buncee, its newly acquired creation and collaboration tool for students and educators, are inviting students to help create kind and supportive Holiday Hugs messages to children in the hospital this holiday season.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

They can show you have to use technology to unlock deeper student relationships with your students. Robert currently serves as the Managing Director of Learning and Digital Product at ASCD, where they lead teams in integrating curriculum design, learning theory, and educational technologies into various learning programs.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The pace of change, driven predominantly by the rapid encroachment of digital and now AI technologies, has accelerated dramatically. The fast-paced evolution in educational technology and methodologies necessitates a fresh look at what features teachers should exhibit to be effective and relevant in this ever-changing environment.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. We see an explosion of startups.

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What Investors See in a ‘Highly Fragmented and Under-Teched’ Early Childhood Education Market

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In 2019, total U.S. Prior to the pandemic, the number of child care facilities has been declining since 2005, driven largely by fewer home-based providers. From 2005 to 2017, the number of licensed small home-based child care programs dipped by almost half, according to data from the U.S.

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Research-based Strategies for Teaching Sight Words

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2019) [ 1 ] and several other researchers (e.g., Drawing on the research by Ehri (2005) [ 7 ] , the core of learning sight words lies in a connection-forming process, where children associate the spellings of written words with their pronunciations and meanings, building what is known as graphophonemic awareness (i.e. McIlwain, M.