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What You Need to Know About Teaching Cybersecurity

edWeb.net

A recommended strategy is that comprehensive cybersecurity courses include the 30 critical concepts such as IT literacy, concepts, terminology, software, virtualization, hardware and system administration, and networks such as Linux and Windows. About the Host.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Most educators and students are not technology professionals and prefer classroom solutions that are simple to use and easily work with the various programs, software and other hardware which educators have grown accustomed to. 2024 will be a mix of states and districts spending their remaining funds while also looking to the future.

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Twelve Years Later: How the K-12 Industry and Investment Landscape Has Shifted (Part 2)

Edsurge

The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson. If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. The stuff—software logins, workbooks, kits—continues to pile up.

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OER: Some Questions and Answers

Iterating Toward Openness

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” If I purchase the rights to an out-of-print textbook from Pearson and relicense it CC BY, is it now more or less effective than it was the day before? This is a ridiculous question.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Pearson cut 4000 jobs – 10% of its staff. The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech. The learning management system is a piece of “enterprise” software after all.