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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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The Uphill Battles Facing Asia’s Education Technology Startups

Edsurge

In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands. But when it comes to the education technology industry, few people outside the country can name Japanese companies off the top of their heads. In education, the tutoring center Kumon has franchises across the world. But they will for coding.”

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

In the education technology industry, we see an abundance of press covering venture-backed startups and their funding rounds, acquisitions and other noteworthy milestones. Summer 2014 After 10 years in business, our tutoring company, SurePrep Learning goes under after the elimination of a federal tutoring program. My mom passes away.

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

Edsurge

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

Edsurge

In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. But the underlying blockchain technology is complex, and attracting droves of interest from the likes of IBM and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout.

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

The Hechinger Report

So when the alumnus, who worked for Microsoft, told him that the Redmond, Washington-based technology behemoth would be hiring huge numbers of people to specialize in data analytics, he went back to the campus to fast-track a new degree program in that subject. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said.

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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!" Note to my future self, keep the original boxes of new technology. centuries. — I did this with my iPhone4S and got $165.

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