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Edtech Providers Collaborate for a Unified Approach to Interoperability

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In the realm of education technology, a similar disarray unfolds without a standardized system for edtech interoperability. Educators and students grapple with navigating multiple platforms, each with its own unique interfaces and data structures. Why is implementation worth it?

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Illuminate to Sunset Student Information System in 2021

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Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. That reasoning has some similar undertones to the explanation given by Pearson when it sold its student information system, PowerSchool, in 2015. Illuminate , based in Irvine, Calif.,

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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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