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

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

Kathy Schrock

That low-cost ($69) device demonstrated to us how effective a document camera could be in supporting teaching and learning. USING THE IPEVO DOC CAMERA FOR REMOTE LEARNING The IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB , using the USB mode, can be used to support remote teaching, learning, and meetings. 3.07” x 1.57” x 11.42” (7.8

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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. “We

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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. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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WHAT’S NEW

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Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. ALMA START ( www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies launched an enrollment and admissions management tool called Alma Start.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer.