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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. But, how does the 2010 vision for edTech match what’s actually happening today? This is a bonanza for the tech industry and other vendors.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

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What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. Panels and keynotes covered the latest industry trends.

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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

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Nevertheless, an article published in the International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications one year later in 2010 uncovered that 88% of teaching professionals saw a need for integration of the service. It registered as one of the lower ranking fields on the list, but it still managed to position itself in the top ten.

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Mark Cuban, ECMC Lead $1.8M Round for Cluster to Develop Industrial Tech Talent

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The allure of “tech jobs” and the salaries they command have given rise to new industries, from coding bootcamps to specialized recruiters. Yet the likes of Google and Facebook sometimes overshadow sectors that have been—and remain—core to the American economy: industrial manufacturing. million such openings have been added since 2010.

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2023 CODiE Awards Announced

eSchool News

SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. Over the years the awards have become recognized as the leading peer-recognized program in the business and Ed Tech industries. Founder of BrainPOP As a physician, scientific researcher, and entrepreneur, Avraham Kadar, M.D.

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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system. This is a must bookmark, must share resource.

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It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between High School, College and Work

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For example, even as early as 2010, 15 percent of community college entrants (or 1.4 More than 7,100 Texas high school students earned associate degrees in the 2018-19 academic year, and many of those credentials included industry certifications. In many ways, these arbitrary boundaries are already starting to blur.

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