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How virtual schools will lead the ‘next normal’

eSchool News

billion by 2027 , growing at a CAGR of 18 percent from 2020 to 2027. Recent reports show that investments in edtech startups reached $2.2 Video conferencing platforms like Zoom and Google Meet, used now by traditional-turned-online schools, continue to rise in popularity, too. billion in 2019.

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ISTE23 Redux—AR/VR Over AI?

eSchool News

According to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s “Virtual Reality In Education Global Market Report 2023” report, space grew from $8.67 billion in 2027. Major players like Google, Microsoft Corporation, Meta, Samsung and Lenovo continue to invest major resources into its development. billion in 2022 to $11.95

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K–12 Teachers Use Virtual and Augmented Reality Platforms to Teach Coding

EdTech Magazine

Since 1990, jobs in science, technology, engineering and math have grown by 79 percent , and are expected to grow an additional 13 percent by 2027 , according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey. . Coding skills are in high demand and will soon become a necessary skill for nearly all industries. by Eli Zimmerman.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

The Hechinger Report

The Google campus in Mountain View, California. Businesses like Google, IBM, and Accenture have also made high-profile moves to boost skills-based hiring and remove bachelor’s degree requirements. The Burning Glass “degree reset” report, which Fuller co-wrote, found that between 2017 and 2019, the number of positions requiring a B.A.

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How 60 Minutes Oversimplified the Gender Gap and Overlooked Women in Tech

Edsurge

Reinforcing the Pipeline Though computer science is more accessible to all students now, thanks to new state legislation and district-wide initiatives to offer coding classes, two-thirds of states with computer science programs report seeing no increase in participation from girls, according to research Saujani cites in her Medium post.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” Michael Teitelbaum, a scholar on the history of STEM, said in 2014 to an audience of education reporters that the post-war U.S. The rate nationally: 16%.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” “A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. More on Claypool’s resignation from WaPo’s Valerie Strauss.

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