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How today’s tech departments are moving into the future

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Gabe Soumakian: With E-rate modernization, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and more taking place at once, what are you looking at in terms of changes to the way you’re funding technology these days? Stuart Burt : When they changed E-rate a couple years ago, it was a learning curve.

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Chief Education Officer Factors that Affect the Success Rate of Under Represented Minority Students (URMs) in STEM Education - Berta Hayes Capo Program Professor of Science Education MIT BLOSSOMS for Interactive STEM Education - Richard C. Sueann Galt, STEM Coordinator Does the use of ‘Learning Menus’ increase students’ intrinsic motivation?

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” (Juul is an e-cigarette that markets its product to teens and peddles social emotional learning content.). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. Interactive Whiteboards. (For

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The NAACP endorses OER. “5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” The Business of Job Training. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

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” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below. “New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. The Business of Job Training. Memos from HR.

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” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. ” Google announces “Google Cloud Platform Education Grants for computer science.” ” And via Inside Higher Ed : “The U.S.