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The Uphill Battles Facing Asia’s Education Technology Startups

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In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands. Launched this March, the Boston-based firm traces its roots to a Japanese educational research and assessment company, JIEM. Last year, Tokyo-based Arcterus won the Global Edtech Startup Awards, an annual international competition that began in 2014.

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

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That effort got a boost in 2014, when the California Department of Education awarded Career Pathways Trust Grants to K-12 and community college districts to support work-based learning and career pathway opportunities for high school students. Today there are three main components to PilotCity’s programming.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. Sony and IBM, for example, say they have developed a system for storing education records using blockchain technology, which relies on people called “miners” to solve cryptography problems in order to add transactions (in this case, digital transcripts) to the ledger.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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One of the ways in which we define a “real college” – and perhaps punish those which might not be sufficiently “real” – is by assessing the employability of its graduates. According to its later report from the Lumina Foundation, more than 45% of Americans between age 25 and 64 did in 2014.).