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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. 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. 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. Goodbye, Middleman?

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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 other technology startups that incorporate songs into lessons, including Lingokids and Roybi , have won over investors. Custance, 34, came up with the idea while working as a finance director at Sony Music. million this week. In the U.S.,

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

Edsurge

More companies are assuming the costs and risks of preparing people for entry-level technology roles by offering apprenticeships. The Rise of Technology Apprenticeships The number of U.S. Information technology offerings account for just a small fraction of programs. Members include Walmart, Sony and T-Mobile.

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

The Hechinger Report

So when the alumnus, who worked for Microsoft, told him that the Redmond, Washington-based technology behemoth would be hiring huge numbers of people to specialize in data analytics, he went back to the campus to fast-track a new degree program in that subject. I don’t think there’s a desire to get into this space, other than that it’s not.”.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. But by some accounts he faces tough competition at home, competition that was partly blamed for the recent failure of education technology company Instructure to break into corporate learning. Founded in 1999 and based in Deerfield Beach, Fla.,

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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. He chose the nonprofit Per Scholas, which offers tuition-free information technology training. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.