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Transcription and Accessibility—New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon

Edsurge

On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Via Microsoft Translator , a translation service, students in classes and lectures can get automated transcriptions on their mobile and desktop devices. The company says its transcription technology is also useful at a broader level.

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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

The Hechinger Report

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. She chose the high school because she believed it could give her access to the type of company she wants to work for in the future. million donation from H-E-B in 2016.

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

Marketplace K-12

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). percent in all of 2015 and only 0.2 million shipments from 5.7

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. So why do I still want schools to use them? Unified gets a $3.26-million

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?Overcoming Hacking and Cybercrimes — The Next Obstacle to Edtech

Edsurge

Providing hosted services rather than giving districts the software to install on their own servers is better for edtech companies; it makes their products easier and cheaper to deploy and maintain. And perhaps in the future, E-rate can be modified to help districts fund cybersecurity when the current program expires in 2019.

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Why the Education Expenses are Rising and How to Deal with it?

Evelyn Learning

Bill Gates dropped out of college at the age of 20 and made a revolutionizing company, “Microsoft”. In the academic year 2015-16, the state’s funding was reduced by 11% as compared to the last 10 years, which is the result of a hike in education expenses. Now, the time has changed. There are two ways to overcome this situation.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Tagged on: August 27, 2017 DeVos Invested in Company Under Investigation for Misleading Claims | Education Week → When U.S. public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘a majority of all classes online;’ and, 3.6

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