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Network Essentials for School Board Members

Education Superhighway

While there are other factors that may affect the amount of bandwidth your district needs—cloud-based applications, storage, online assessments, etc.—having Here are three key funding sources that can help: The FCC’s federal E-rate program provides public schools and libraries with funding for Internet services.

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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

(Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). percent in 2014. Despite the negative global outlook for 2016, Futuresource expects the market to bounce back in 2017, and grow at a 19 percent rate over the dip this year. Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” But new technology hasn’t made it easy. ConnectEDU.

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