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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching

Edsurge

Faculty members who have been teaching seminars face-to-face for years, encouraging peer-to-peer interaction, animating engagement and debate may not find the shift online as intuitive when facing a screen. Afterward, we spend the next virtual classroom hour in conversation exploring what they discovered offline.

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4 Ways to make sure the teachers in your school are properly trained

Neo LMS

If a regular company would invest in its employees if it would work towards their advancement and education in order to have said employees achieve great results, why would a school be any different? You can’t just throw it various seminars and educational summits without an afterthought. However, the basic principles are the same.

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Buying an Office Projector: 5 Things to Consider 

ViewSonic Education

And how can you elevate your office environment by using them beyond the confines of the meeting room? Read on to discover how to choose the perfect business projector for your needs. Everything you need to know is just a scroll away! Or explore ViewSonic’s full range of lamp-free office projectors here.

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Buying an Office Projector: 5 Things to Consider 

ViewSonic Education

And how can you elevate your office environment by using them beyond the confines of the meeting room? Read on to discover how to choose the perfect business projector for your needs. Everything you need to know is just a scroll away! Or explore ViewSonic’s full range of lamp-free office projectors here.

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

Edsurge

For the book, she tracked what schools in each state are actually teaching about climate science, and uncovered the watered-down standards and outright climate change denial adopted by some states, as well as a well-funded campaign of misinformation spearheaded by fossil fuel companies.

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Students Size Up Edtech’s Dark Side

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5. This made a great deal of sense.