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Sony, Edmodo, partner on math challenge

eSchool News

Sony’s Global Math Challenge will expand to more than 190 countries. Sony Global Education, Inc. By working with Edmodo, Sony Global Education will make its Global Math Challenge, a worldwide online math competition, accessible to teachers and students in over 190 countries. will partner with Edmodo, Inc.,

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

Summer 2014 After 10 years in business, our tutoring company, SurePrep Learning goes under after the elimination of a federal tutoring program. October 2014 My wife and I patch things up. As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. We switch to an all-access subscription model.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. Investors might be less interested in buying and trading tokens for a streaming service that they can access for regular cash. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout. Other users can view the platform’s premium content by paying those same tokens.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt. “The industry would be very satisfied if higher education was taking care of it,” said Eaton. “I

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10 Super Geeky Tips for the New Year

The Daring Librarian

At first I thought I could leave out the password comic & tip and then the Sony thing happened. It was recently released that some Sony employees had a password of s0ny123 and the worst, "password!" Also, with brute force hacking making the rounds, I decided to update a few of my tips. centuries. —

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

Hack Education

Students at these schools will not immediately lose access to financial aid – that’s one of the implications of an institution’s loss of accreditation – but many students are rightly concerned about their ability to finish their degrees. But again, what count as a “quality postsecondary credential”?