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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

Edsurge

Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. No country studied by the report had a perfect way for educators and entrepreneurs to connect on product quality. Extending access to education technology beyond schools is also key.

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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. Forget telling students about the results of scientific study. By 2030, 30 to 40 percent of jobs will require strong social-emotional skills. A recent study compared the results of traditional vs tech teaching with students age three to six.

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

Edsurge

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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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. “Over the next 10 years,” he wrote, “I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.”

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NetSupport’s keyword monitoring now supports multiple languages

eSchool News

In an effort to help districts cope with an ever-growing student population speaking languages other than English, NetSupport is adding multiple languages to its keyword monitoring software, which lets schools keep an eye on student communications by automatically flagging certain phrases or words. In 2014, a record of 63.5 million U.S.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

“The message is getting clearer and clearer: This is what our postsecondary population looks like,” said Alexandria Walton Radford, co-author of a new study by the American Institutes for Research that identified 67 “promise” programs across the U.S. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The governor of Virginia has approved a bill requiring all public higher education institutions in the state to take steps to adopt open educational resources – freely accessible and openly copyrighted educational materials.” The reading software-maker has raised $3.2 million total.