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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

On the other hand, there is a paucity of coverage about edtech companies that grow their businesses with little or no venture capital or outside investment. Bootstrapped companies rarely have “unicorn” potential and most aren’t nearly as sexy as their venture-backed counterparts. In a way, it makes sense. Below is our story.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. We talk about the days long gone when companies trained employees from the ground up and now we’re talking about companies training employees again.

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IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB Dual Mode 8MP Document Camera

Kathy Schrock

IPEVO VZ-R USB CONNECTION TO LAPTOP OR DESKTOP (2020) Of course, true to its roots, the IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB can attach to a laptop, Chromebook, or computer desktop via a USB cable, and mirror what is on the "stage" for recording and sharing a screen of information with others. 3.07” x 1.57” x 11.42” (7.8 x 18.9” (270 x 480mm) [16:9] 13.5”

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

Edsurge

A couple decades later, tractors were assembled here for Caterpillar, the construction machinery company. They have been working with local governments and tech companies to design solutions to problems such as homelessness, water conservation and clean energy. It was subsequently used as a storage warehouse.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Seck instead learned to code in a one-year programming course run by a nonprofit, where he stuck around for an extra year to master more advanced skills. Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. Now, at 27, he’s making more than $90,000 a year.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Robots are much more ideal as workers, because of course they cannot unionize. These have all been separate articles in each series. Bootcamp or Bust.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New York Times : New York governor “ Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons.” Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ’s CTO, Brian Pinkerton , is leaving the company.