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Sony, Edmodo, partner on math challenge

eSchool News

Sony’s Global Math Challenge will expand to more than 190 countries. Sony Global Education, Inc. By working with Edmodo, Sony Global Education will make its Global Math Challenge, a worldwide online math competition, accessible to teachers and students in over 190 countries. will partner with Edmodo, Inc.,

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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. Sony Global Education , a company affiliated with the Japanese electronics corporation, defines blockchain as a decentralized network technology in which the same data are recorded and maintained on multiple nodes–computers connected to a network–that are geographically isolated.

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

Edsurge

Sony Music, Veridian Ventures and a group of private investors participated. “If What could give Lirica a leg up is a partnership with Sony, which helps it navigate licensing issues that can emerge when it comes to repurposing billboard hits for the classroom, says Lirica founder and CEO Paul Custance. Screenshots of Lirica app.

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

Edsurge

In April, the Government Accountability Office published a report that recommends that employers develop apprenticeship programs to help workers weather economic disruptions. Prime Minister—reported in January raising $44 million to bring apprenticeships in data, software engineering, digital marketing and project management to the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

The Manpower Group reports that 40 percent of employers are having trouble finding workers with the skills they need. And the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine warned in a report in late October of “a growing sense of an impending crisis” as universities struggle to respond to these complaints. “A

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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. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. Part of the problem for Bridge may have been too many players already in the corporate learning space, which is about three times the size of its academic counterpart, according to an October report from investment bank SunTrust Robinson Humphreys.

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