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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Making Time for Research The promise of media and technology to transform student learning has led schools in the U.S.

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The Business Benefits of Video Conferencing

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Online meetings have become critical to many companies’ collaboration strategies. Move a company more effectively towards its goals . Below are some of the main reasons companies are using video conferencing more than ever before: . far outweighs the expense of a VC system that can be used by the entire company. .

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A Record Year Amid a Pandemic: US Edtech Raises $2.2 Billion in 2020

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education technology startups raised over $2.2 Many education entrepreneurs have long mused about how new technologies would usher in a “disruption” of the education market. companies reached a record $130 billion in 2020 , or up 14 percent from 2019. edtech companies selling their services directly to consumers.

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Rideshare Startups for Schoolchildren Change Lanes to Survive COVID-19

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Since February 2019, those three rideshare companies have raised at least $65 million in venture capital, and together employ more than 200 people. The companies have offered to deliver food and learning materials like laptops and textbooks to students’ homes. The company still plans to expand further into those markets.

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The Big 3's War Over EDU: A Comparison of Apple, Google, and Microsoft

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With that, I think it's worth taking a look at where each of the three big companies stands in regards to Ed. What's makes that perception of Microsoft fascinating is that there is a whole other segment of technology professionals who see Microsoft as being far behind. It could get there though if they keep making acquisitions.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., As campuses locked their gates out of fear of infection, most American college students rushed to their laptops to study from home.

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Microsoft’s Many EDU Updates—and a Window of Opportunity to Win K-12 Market Share

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Microsoft has long had a beef with Google—even if the company won’t always admit it today—dating back to the “Scroogled” advertisement campaign that critiqued the search giant’s Chromebooks and privacy policies. based company again took a swipe at the search giant in today’s announcement to its educational offerings.