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5 Great Software Functions!

WJU EdTech

Typically there are 5 types of instructional software functions. Teachers must analyze a software carefully to determine which instructional function it will serve to ensure that it supports the needs of the class. The nice thing about drill and practice software is that the programs often offer quick, simple feedback.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

Edsurge

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. Lambda School allows students to pay nothing upfront, in return for 17 percent of their salary for two years once they get a software-related job that pays more than $50,000. TechCrunch reports the company is forecasting $3.5 million in profit.

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Adobe Flash End of Life & the Threat to Education

myViewBoard

For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. Many of their technologies are in our school computers, software programs, and internet applications we use every day. Countless software and computer applications used Flash. No need to download a plug-in.

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Top 15 Best Online Quiz Makers For Teachers In 2022

Fractus Learning

Why Use Online Quiz Testing Software To Create Online Quizzes For Students? No, it’s not difficult if you use the right quiz builder software. Online quizzes are highly interactive; users receive instantaneous results in delightful reports and advanced analytics explaining the outcome. What Is an Interactive Quiz?

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A New Model for OER Sustainability and Continuous Improvement

Iterating Toward Openness

(Longtime readers may recall that the research group I founded at Utah State University in 2003, the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities group, became The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning in 2005, which I directed until I moved to BYU.) The empirical work on the sustainability of open source software (e.g.,

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A Call to Remake the Maker Faire

Edsurge

The story starts in 2005 when Dale Dougherty founded MAKE: magazine as a quarterly publication with his long-time business partner, Tim O’Reilly. Their message was simple: Think creatively about hardware, much like people think about software. Google, a newly public business, reported a mere $6 million in revenue at the end of 2005.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Google) biotech company, Calico. “ Coding Boot Camps Attract Tech Companies,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story that contains this gem: Google , which has hired workers from Flatiron and other academies, recently studied the efficacy of coding camps. .” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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