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The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global

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Braced for the next wave of edtech? The most recent player to step into the edtech spotlight is India’s Byju’s. Byju’s growth demonstrates how the edtech market is truly becoming borderless,” says Isabelle Hau, a longtime global impact education funder who is working on a book on early childhood learning. “We It will be big.

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Epic Outages of Edtech Tools Show K-12 Schools Are Vulnerable to Cyberattacks

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edtech: Information technology for K-12 public schools in America is a $760 billion sector, affecting over 50 million students. Many districts are small, and may only have a handful of staff for all of their technology operations. public schools in that time. At least 128 school districts have seen repeat attacks.

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Digital Signage Growth Helps K–12 Schools Get Their Messages Out

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A recent report from Technavio found that revenue from digital signage in the education market is expected to grow 10 percent by 2021. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! They can promote activities to students while using the same technology to guide parents to the corresponding events.”.

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Illuminate to Sunset Student Information System in 2021

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Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. That reasoning has some similar undertones to the explanation given by Pearson when it sold its student information system, PowerSchool, in 2015. Illuminate , based in Irvine, Calif.,

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gener8tor and ECMC Group’s Inaugural OnRamp Education & Workforce Innovation Accelerator Cohort Addresses Learning & Labor Challenges with Creative, Tech-first Solutions

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June 17, 2021 — MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — gener8tor , a concierge startup accelerator program, and ECMC Group , a Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization with a mission to help students succeed, have selected five startups to participate in the inaugural OnRamp Education & Workforce Innovation Accelerator.

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The Best Teacher Tips and Lesson Ideas of 2020

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Let’s make 2021 the best year yet! The goal of this blog has always been to provide teachers with digital learning resources, tips, and tricks, and help teachers find ways to integrate technology meaningfully in the classroom. This list helps me decide what content to create and how to best help teachers in 2021.

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Former Pearson, edX Exec Raises $7.5M to Build AI-Powered Digital Courseware

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The demand for innovative digital learning technology has never been higher. And investment continues to flow into the edtech space. Shrier has led graduate business courses at institutions including Oxford, MIT and Imperial College; Porter was a vice president at Pearson and edX, the nonprofit online course platform developer.

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