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Will cybersecurity receive E-rate funding?

eSchool News

A recent Sophos survey reveals that in 2022, 80 percent of schools were targeted for a cyberattack, up from 56 percent in 2021. Having more devices to manage on a small district budget is even more challenging without security management software for staff and students.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

Edsurge

The nonprofit publisher of K-12 curriculum launched in 2016 expecting an audience for its digital offerings. No More Predictions One of the assumptions behind the Gates’ prediction is that the growth of instructional software will replace textbooks. Spending data suggests that instructional software is indeed growing in classrooms.

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Are Free Educational Videos Worth It?

myViewBoard

of teachers surveyed use video in their teaching but access and the quality of good educational videos are a growing concern for teachers. The majority of teachers who responded to our survey reported they tend to search for videos online using search engines such as YouTube (83%) and Google (61%).

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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How Districts Can Unlock Actionable Data

edWeb.net

In a 2018 survey , the majority of school districts either have 1:1 as a current goal or have already achieved it. Along with a 1:1 goal, comes the deluge of edtech tools, software, and applications into classrooms. Mike Schwab has spent his career in finance, enterprise software sales and edtech. Suzy holds a B.S.

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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

The Hechinger Report

In order for colleges to manage the complex financial math behind tuition discounting, many have turned to enrollment management companies that provide software to game out their strategies. A 2016 survey of rising seniors and their parents by the firm found that half of respondents said they would never consider a school with high tuition.

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Apps: a call for nominations and a round-up of review ources

NeverEndingSearch

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors. I especially trust their reviews. Follow them @BalefireLabs.

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