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Savvas Learning Company Acquires Outlier.org 

eSchool News

In addition to providing students a path toward their college degree, the Outlier offerings also give those looking for valuable career and workforce training the opportunity to earn credit-bearing professional certificates from leading technology companies like Google, Meta, and Salesforce. To learn more, visit Savvas Learning Company.

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Universities Turn To More Public-Private Partnerships To Meet Student Needs

Edsurge

“I think, fundamentally, colleges are just faced with new challenges to serve today's students,” says Shalin Jyotishi, a senior policy analyst for the think tank New America. To meet this demand, public universities are showing an increased interest in public-private partnership agreements that bring profit motives into the public sector.

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Educators Have Some Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

Edsurge

This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ” It offers advice to tech companies that are jumping into the metaverse, with principles from learning science for how to shape the development of their products and services.

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Successful Distance Learning for Young Kids

The CoolCatTeacher

From successful online meetings to screentime and essential things to include, Nancy encourages us to do what seems impossible. Nancy Frey with Doug Fisher – Bio as Submitted We are professors at San Diego State University in Educational Leadership and focus on policies and practices in literacy and school leadership.

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Buying an Office Projector: 5 Things to Consider 

ViewSonic Education

Office projectors have been a workspace essential for many years, and it’s safe to say there’s hardly a business on this planet that doesn’t have one in their meeting rooms. And how can you elevate your office environment by using them beyond the confines of the meeting room?

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What Do I Do If I Think Chat GPT Wrote my Student’s Paper?

The CoolCatTeacher

They state in this paper “We recognize that many school districts and higher education institutions do not currently account for generative AI in their policies on academic dishonesty. Recommendation: Consider writing into policies that all written work can and will be "spot checked" with conversations about the written work.

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What Every Edtech Company Needs to Know About Schools and Data Privacy

Edsurge

New federal and state laws —and a greater focus on the issue by districts—are giving edtech companies a lot to consider. With that in mind: Be prepared to share a company policy on PII retention and destruction, and have one ready. The data privacy landscape looks a lot different than it did even a few years ago.

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