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The Uphill Battles Facing Asia’s Education Technology Startups

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In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands. Launched this March, the Boston-based firm traces its roots to a Japanese educational research and assessment company, JIEM. Japan has earned a reputation for exporting successful products and services from different industries.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Sony and IBM, for example, say they have developed a system for storing education records using blockchain technology, which relies on people called “miners” to solve cryptography problems in order to add transactions (in this case, digital transcripts) to the ledger. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout.

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WHAT’S NEW

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It includes a variety of assessments, multiple-choice and claim-evidence-reasoning assessments, along with extensive support for teachers such as embedded professional development and instructional resources to support a differentiated learning experience for each student. to streamline workflows for assessment and data analysis.

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