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Edtech Providers Collaborate for a Unified Approach to Interoperability

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Andrea Press Classroom Assessment Technical Support Supervisor Pearson Interoperability in education allows different software applications to communicate and work together effectively. Ali DeGeorge Product Line Manager Skyward EdSurge: What is the challenge in the edtech ecosystem that necessitates data standardization?

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Illuminate to Sunset Student Information System in 2021

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In an email sent Tuesday morning, the company notified customers to plan for a replacement for the Illuminate Student Information product, also known as ISI. That reasoning has some similar undertones to the explanation given by Pearson when it sold its student information system, PowerSchool, in 2015.

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I Moved a Drone With My Mind. Soon Your Students Will Too.

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Hovering here and there and lurching around a bit but most certainly skyward. The drone was part of a demonstration of the powerful technology that the neuroinfomatics company EMOTIV offered at a conference on the power of technology and education. UP, UP, UP,” I thought fixing my mind on the drove. And, amazingly, up it went.

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