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Edtech Trends From 2020 And Beyond

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I’m the CTO of a tech company and for more than five years I have been busy with teaching programming courses and sharing my expertise with novice specialists. However, due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus and the global lockdown, distance learning became vital in 2020. 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020.

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Edtech Company Encourages Its Employees to Volunteer as Substitute Teachers

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And at least one edtech company is making a similar offer: Instructure, the learning management system provider that runs Canvas, is encouraging its employees to volunteer as substitute teachers for districts. The staffing shortages “got really acute” at the end of last year, says Steve Daly, who’s been CEO of Instructure since 2020.

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2020: The Year Of the Edtech Paradox

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In many ways, 2020 has been THE year of edtech. Yet, 2020 also saw an acceleration of inequities in education. The divide in access to digital tools , systemic racial gaps and biases , increased learning and opportunity disparities and rising poverty have all affected learners from under-priviledged backgrounds.

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Companies go to high schools for career training

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Since the second semester of his senior year of high school, he has responded to field calls as an employee of the largest underground utility locating company in North America — the Indianapolis-based U.S. Infrastructure Company (USIC). You learn how to work with people,” he said.

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Predictions for 2021: An Acceleration of 2020?

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Lest 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind—a hope more than a few of us hold—existing trends that accelerated during the pandemic will continue in 2021. That’s what lies ahead, at least in the realms of education and employment, according to three college presidents and executives at large companies. Here’s how it breaks down: 1.

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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

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A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. million credentials to date, growing at a 61 percent pace from 2019 to 2020. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7

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How will the edtech boom transform the existing education system?

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Enter the education technology (edtech) boom since 2020 and the very ideology around teaching and learning has been revolutionized. Highlighted by the coronavirus shutdowns, edtech has emerged as a viable–arguably superior–alternative to traditional education systems.

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