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The Uphill Battles Facing Asia’s Education Technology Startups

Edsurge

In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands. But when it comes to the education technology industry, few people outside the country can name Japanese companies off the top of their heads. Tokyo-based adaptive study tool Cerego has operations in San Francisco.

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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. company, then graduated from a Japanese university, he said.

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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

Technology has also begun to play an interesting role in educating ASD students. In fact, it has been shown that, in general, ASD students respond comparatively well to technological inputs when contrasted with social or human inputs. How AI is changing special education.

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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

One , with the release of a new book ( BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World ) from Don and (his son) Alex Tapscott coming in May 2016 focused exclusively on the potential of blockchain, expect to hear much more about the technology in the popular press.

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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. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said.

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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. He chose the nonprofit Per Scholas, which offers tuition-free information technology training. While he continues working on website projects, Seck is now teaching coding to high school students at a skills academy in Stamford.

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Mix2Go: Inside The World’s Smallest 3D Mix Facility

techlearning

But as the music industry evolved, they saw their potential profits begin to diminish with the onset of fiber recording technologies. This served as the catalyst for them to depart the mobile recording world for a new focus on 3D audio and world class mixing technologies.

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