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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

This information abundance amplifies shortfalls in the current system, including limited access to high-quality learning experiences from early childhood to adult learning, the increased need to reskill workers throughout a lifetime and broken models of education that do not deliver equal access to underserved populations.

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Don Johnston Incorporated Joins Texthelp Group; Edtech Giants Join Forces to Help Students Across North America and the Globe

eSchool News

10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Texthelp , a global leader in literacy and accessibility technology, today announced that they will acquire the Education Technology Division of Don Johnston Inc., Texthelp’s goal is to use its assistive technology to help 1 billion people with reading, writing, and numeracy by 2030.

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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

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Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. China’s Education Modernization 2030 Policy and Ten Year Development Plan for ICT and Education 2010-2020 are among government initiatives named that intend to improve the country’s education in the long run.

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Pearson’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education

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Yet at the same time, I was also dismayed by the enormous challenges many learners face just trying to gain access to affordable, basic, high-quality education. Your knowledge of COBOL or Fortran (or maybe even Ruby) won’t do you much good if you’re looking for a software engineering job today. Which brings me to.

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10 Ways Interactive Touch Screen Displays Improve Education

ViewSonic Education

Add collaboration software and students can cast and share content from their seats. By 2030, 30 to 40 percent of jobs will require strong social-emotional skills. Like captions, text highlighters and text-to-speech software. An ADA-compliant lift with robust functionality adds accessibility. Analyze text or images.

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Some Very Bad News about the UNESCO OER Recommendation

Iterating Toward Openness

The strong requirement that the public be permitted to retain OER – that is, “the right to create, own, and control copies of the content” as per the public draft – has been replaced in the final version with the indescribably impoverished requirement that the public be allowed “access” to OER. . Imagine if access was all you had.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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