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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

During a recent edWebinar , edtech experts provided an overview of the E-Rate program, state matching funds, and ways to obtain grants for technological development. Accessing the E-Rate and Matching State Funds. is one of the nation’s leading experts in E-rate and is passionate in her work to close the digital divide.

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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

EdTech Magazine

Augmented data analysis, blended digital tools and connected networks will reign among technology innovations in the coming year, according to IT analyst group Gartner’s top 10 tech trends of 2019. . Digital transformation in schools is already happening at a rapid rate, and there seems to be no sign of slowing down.

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Product knowledge training: Unleashing the beast in your salespeople

Brainscape

This drives home the importance of proper product knowledge training. Read: What every employer should know about online sales training ] Employer: “Here’s your homework for the weekend! Product knowledge training. A talented performer is nothing without knowledge of the game. The result?

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5 Tips for Improving Your Organization’s Microlearning

Edsurge

While vendors and e-learning service providers promote microlearning as an off-the-shelf solution to be used like a genie’s lamp to solve all the learning and development issues in your organization, they fail to understand that microlearning is not a technological solution—it is a learning strategy. Would anyone understand it?

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

In the previous posts on this topic our examination found that technology can and does help when it comes to improving completion rates , reducing tuition costs and helping universities to bridge the revenue gap. It seems that technical training is less relevant here than e-learning course design.

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‘It was the most unfair thing’: Disobedience, discipline and racial disparity

The Hechinger Report

Black students in Ohio are, on average, kicked out of classes for these offenses at four and half times the rate of white students. A Hechinger Report analysis across 20 states found that these types of categories are cited as justification in nearly a third of all suspension and expulsion records.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

One reason for the growth is the sort of advertisement that attracted Nemergut, which often touts the schools’ long experience in online instruction and teachers specially trained in remote learning. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates. Stride spent about $1.8 Connections Education spent $1.2

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