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The Uphill Battles Facing Asia’s Education Technology Startups

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Japan has earned a reputation for exporting successful products and services from different industries. 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.

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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

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Sony Global Education Inc. says it has developed a system to bring “blockchain” technology–meant to serve as a decentralized-yet-secure system for transmitting data–to education, as the concept slowly begins to attract attention in the K-12 space. Goodbye, Middleman?

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How “blockchain” technology could influence education

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Sony Global Education sims to build a new, widely applicable educational infrastructure that enables diverse methods of evaluation, open sharing of academic proficiency and progress records. As education paradigms evolve, technological innovation is expected to diversify the ways in which tests are designed and individuals are evaluated.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. Each chapter concludes with an assessment to prove employee understanding. Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. Founded in 1999 and based in Deerfield Beach, Fla.,

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

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The tall ceilings, roof-top windows, exposed steel beams and air ducts hints at its industrial past. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. One group proposes using them for sidewalk maintenance work; another for traffic intersection safety assessments.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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How might new technologies – education or otherwise – and new economies reshape “what counts” as a credential , “what counts” as credit? If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree. What is the implied promise? Jobs for Grads.

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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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