eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

This trend is expected to continue over the next three years, prompting many public libraries to transition their budgets from DVDs to streaming and prepare for changes and challenges. Kanopy is extremely grateful to the hundreds of librarians who took the time and effort to participate in our survey,” said Kanopy CEO Kevin Sayar.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2020

Steve Albrecht's newest Library 2.0 webinar is coming up on Friday, August 28th: " Your Library and the Police: Time for a New Relationship." This 6 0-minute webinar with Q&A is part of a special Library 2.0 Topics include: Typical police responses to library safety and security issues: What needs to change or stay the same?

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Did you know that according to a United States Department of Education survey, 94% of public school educators buy supplies with their own money ? For example, do this directly by donating supplies, funding a GoFundMe page set by a teacher, or by pitching in their Amazon (or any other company) wish list. Helping with classroom supplies.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Endless Network , a global organization dedicated to promoting equity and accessibility, invests strategically in companies worldwide to address challenges such as limited access to quality education. This article focuses on one of those organizations, Learning Equality. billion people worldwide without internet access.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

According to a soon-to-be released Kanopy survey of more than 730 librarians — primarily in the U.S. –50% of public libraries believe it is their responsibility to provide their local K-12 schools with streaming films that support their curriculum. About Highlights. About Kanopy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 20, 2021

We've posted a new blog post from Dr. Steve Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security" section of Library 2.0 : "Is There Hidden Bias at Your Library?" It has been illegal for many decades for companies to use biases to discriminate against people during hiring, and how they are supervised or promoted.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 11, 2020

We've posted a new podcast episode and a new blog post in the " Library Safety and Security with Dr. Steve Albrecht " section of Library 2.0. The 30-minute podcast is on the topic of " Special Libraries. " Albrecht's newest webinar, coming up on Friday, August 28th: " Your Library and the Police: Time for a New Relationship."

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With mental health issues and racial injustices on the rise, Gale, a Cengage company, is helping the Charleston County School District (CCSD) provide its students and school staff with authoritative digital resources to support social and emotional learning (SEL) and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). About Cengage and Gale.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

We interviewed a number of leaders and decision-makers in the space, including heads of learning and development, workforce strategists, and executives and corporate development teams of public and private education companies. In a SHRM survey, 68 percent of respondents reported sustaining their training budget through the pandemic.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Annually, Kahoot Pro costs $12 per teacher for K-12, the company’s primary market in education, and $60 per instructor for higher education. Premium users will also have access to a library of millions of images, which are displayed on the quizzes, and performance reports that track student progress.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

SYDNEY – Canva , the world’s only all-in-one visual communication platform, today announced the launch of a suite of K-12 education products as part of its Canva for Education platform, making it the first company to introduce AI-powered educational tools at scale. Teachers can browse lessons by grade, subject and topic.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Instead, many turn to technology companies that aim to offer high-quality instruction to the masses. A startup with offices in New York and São Paulo, Brazil, the company has raised millions of dollars for its adaptive software designed to teach English to people who want to learn it for work. “That’s something we work hard at doing.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

It's obviously a lot of apps now are using the GPT plug ins and calling on the GPT libraries to run generative AI features in their own apps, so it's kind of technically impossible to ban it fully anyway. Job Loss by McKinsey and Company. It's not just out there on its own. It's not just the OpenAI website on its own.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2019

One in 3 parents surveyed in a 2018 PDK Poll say they feared for their students’ safety—nearly three times the percentage in 2013. Last year, RealNetworks, a Seattle-based company, offered its facial recognition software to schools, and a few have pioneered the tool. Over the years, Impero Software, a U.K.-based

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

When I asked you about your problems on this year’s reader survey, here was your answer: I’ll keep writing productivity tips for you. They get an email when new content is added to the membership library. The company I am recommended will pay me if you choose to sign up for this program. Sign up now.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. According to Manpower’s annual labor shortage survey , 45 percent of U.S. businesses reported difficulty finding appropriately trained workers, up from 32 percent reported in 2015.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

One example is New Jersey, where schools and districts were required to submit to the state “a survey weekly of how many students lacked devices and/or WiFi,” according to Erica Hartman, Director of Technology Integration at New Jersey’s Morris School District. Still, no new regulations have yet emerged from that data gathering.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Based on a survey of families with children ages 3 to 13 and with incomes below the national median of $75,000, the report determined that, in 2021, 1 in 7 children do not have broadband internet at home, leaving them either unconnected or with poor quality connections. Shawn Lambert, Brunswick School Department.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

In a national survey of HR leaders that we at Northeastern University conducted last year, 64 percent of employers said that they expect the need for continuous lifelong learning will demand higher levels of education and more credentials in the future. According to PWC’s 2018 Global CEO survey , only around half of U.S.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The News Study findings are the result of an online survey of 5,844 respondents and telephone interviews with 37 participants from 11 diverse colleges and universities. Today’s young news consumers are “multi-modal”: 67% of the survey respondents received news from five pathways to news during the preceding week. Survey Instrument.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

He specifically faults measures such as the National Student Survey , a satisfaction poll administered to undergraduates during their final year of study in colleges throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. His work focuses on British universities, where he says McDonaldization has taken hold more firmly than in the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Their report , titled “Access and Engagement to Education Study,” surveyed over 1,400 parents and professionals in the U.S. Fifty-six percent of the children of survey respondents had disabilities beyond a visual impairment. The library now has a shipping area from which tactile materials are sent to remote learners. “A

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

E-rate is a US Federal Program for funding telecom and technology in K-12 schools and Libraries. The program is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) under direction by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Key components of the program include: Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nearly two-thirds of high school seniors now say a degree is not worth the cost , according to a survey by the left-leaning think tanks New America and Third Way. Students walk to Shipman Library at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. Consumers today want to study subjects they see as leading straight to careers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. An education technology company called Course Hero surveyed students last month about their financial needs; among the more than 14,000 who responded, rent and food were nearly tied for first place. Credit: Maria Romo-Gonzalez.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

These tools help create instructional content, interactive lessons, polling surveys, activities, and students’ opportunities to ask questions and communicate effectively. Teachers don’t have to create classroom videos on different subject matters; they can use suitable videos from an online video library. Khan Academy.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Gottschalk was one of many Amazon customers claiming that they e-commerce company shut down their accounts over the past few weeks. Instead, she had to check out a physical copy of the book from a library a city over from where she lives. “It Gottschalk says that didn’t happen. She can only see her order history and Prime benefits.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures.

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Libraries Survey E-rate Report 157

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The free tool, called SkillsEngine , contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet. Leaders in Minnesota used it to build training pathways for personal care assistants. And that’s not all. Employers could do that.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 29, 2019

The audio company is composed of professional audio fiction podcast talent as well as the synthetic voices of Alexa and BRITT. Complete the short survey to let the folks at Britannica know the sites to which you and your kiddos would like to travel to address the next Time Tears. You can save and return to your game.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 144

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

More than 75 percent said they don’t think they’re receiving a quality learning experience , according to a survey of nearly 1,300 students by the online exam-prep provider OneClass. Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Within weeks of the transition, New Visions for Public Schools also began working with a pilot group of schools to provide rich data about students’ patterns of engagement with remote learning, requests for remote learning devices and responses to surveys about internet access.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

More than 75 percent of online students enroll at an institution within 100 miles of their homes, according to recent research from The Learning House (and consistent across past surveys over time).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Libraries can now change the look and feel of their websites instantly with the release of Stacks , a hosted, turnkey web content management system designed specifically for libraries. Stacks is available through EBSCO Information Services , empowering libraries to engage their patrons anytime, anywhere.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Fill out this five-minute survey , and you can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. They might call the position a different name, but the purpose of the position is to help faculty utilize either library resources or affordable resources, at Penn State we say affordable is $50 or under per course, or utilize OER. So what's next?

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