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Nepris Raises $5 Million Series A Round to Bring Field Trips to the Classroom

Edsurge

Founded in 2014, the company has amassed a network of 70,000 educators and 31,000 industry professionals, all with the goal of showing different career paths to students as early as kindergarten. The Plano, Texas-based company can also count some more investors as part of its network. Kids don’t know what’s out there.”

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PROOF POINTS: The life of an online tutor can resemble that of an assembly line worker

The Hechinger Report

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. Keeping track of students’ questions and chatting with them in real time can feel more like being a short-order cook during the breakfast rush than an educator. At least his commute to work is great. The pace is grueling.

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KITABOO Offers 99.9% Uptime Through Automation Technology

Kitaboo on EdTech

So it may be that it deploys a new upgrade but if there is a problem in deployment for even five minutes, the company will roll back the new upgrade and immediately switch to the previous version. Related Read: 9 Reasons Why Publishers Should Move to Digital eBook Libraries. 9 Benefits of eTextbooks for Better Student Engagement.

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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Here are just a few of their stories.

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Brightspace Excellence Awards highlight innovation in online learning

eSchool News

To increase motivation and completion rates of optional material, a reward system lets students unlock coupons and drawing entries for campus experiences as they complete modules and pass quizzes. D2L currently serves learners in 50 countries, and the company’s track record of innovation has been widely recognized.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

edWeb.net

Contracts with publishing companies ensure equal availability and pricing for Idaho’s large population of rural schools. They are now in their fifth year of 1:1 with iPads for grades K-12, and have designed learning environments to create student engagement. Dr. Rocco received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

Student engagement suffered. Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. Logged On but Logged Out: Are Students Engaged? If they are logged in, are they engaged?