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Sony, Edmodo, partner on math challenge

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Sony’s Global Math Challenge will expand to more than 190 countries. Sony Global Education, Inc. a global education network, to enhance math literacy among students in primary and secondary schools across the world. After this, Sony Global Education will hold competitions twice a year, in the Spring and Fall.

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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

Marketplace K-12

Sony Global Education Inc. says it has developed a system to bring “blockchain” technology–meant to serve as a decentralized-yet-secure system for transmitting data–to education, as the concept slowly begins to attract attention in the K-12 space.

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Lirica Raises $1 Million to Improve App for Language Learning Through Song

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Sony Music, Veridian Ventures and a group of private investors participated. “If Based in London, Lirica is not alone in its approach to turning pop songs into educational lessons. Custance, 34, came up with the idea while working as a finance director at Sony Music. Across the Channel, Paris-based Studytracks raised about $1.2

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Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers

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For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. Members include Walmart, Sony and T-Mobile. Still, companies report that they can’t fill open IT positions.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. The industry would be very satisfied if higher education was taking care of it,” said Eaton. “I Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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Even with competition on the rise from online course providers that have moved beyond education and into corporate learning, Scivally sees plenty of growth opportunities in the industry, he says. Trivantis has served businesses, government agencies and educational institutions in more than 125 countries.

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