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2U, Inc. Announces $3 Million Scholarship Fund to Expand Access to Tech Boot Camps
2U, Inc., in partnership with more than 30 top non-profit universities nationwide, today announced the launch of a $3M Scholarship Fund designed to expand access to critical tech training boot camps for historically underrepresented candidates experiencing job loss or financial hardship. Scholarships of $2,500 each will be available to Black, Latino, and Indigenous learners, as well as women,…
Asking the Tough Questions for Education: Remote Possibilities
Elliott Levine is never one to mince words. As Distinguished Technologist and Director of Education of the Americas for HP, he influenced and advocated for innovative uses of tech in schools. Now as Chief Academic Officer for STS, he is confronting the issues of this new reality. In this conversation with host Kevin Hogan,…
Digital Divide Worsens During COVID Crisis
LearnPlatform released this week The Exponential Growth of the Digital Divide – a new analysis of student and teacher use of K-12 edtech tools across a cross-section of U.S. school districts since the transition to remote instruction began on March 15 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report introduces a new approach to quantifying the impact of the…
JPMorgan Chase Investing $75 Million to Prepare Young People for Future of Work
JPMorgan Chase recently announced a global initiative to better prepare young people for the jobs of today and tomorrow by investing $75 million and advancing smarter policy solutions. The new five-year, 10-site investment and policy priorities are part of New Skills at Work, the firm’s $350 million commitment to prepare adults and kids for the…
Will Schools Be Buying Tech For Next Year?
In the report released today, National Research Study: K-12 Education and the Coronavirus Pandemic, IESD presents quantitative data and analysis based on a large-scale, national survey conducted during April and May 2020 aimed at better understanding district and school leaders’ experience with the coronavirus pandemic. The purpose of this research is to inform providers of…
Who are the Top 100 edTech companies in Latin America?
Think Silicon Valley is the sole source of innovation when it comes education and technology? One of the most interesting aspects of the space is that new technologies are flourishing all over the world. Since education is delivered differently across the planet, the products and services provided are different too. But as the world continues…
How Teletherapy is Providing Support to Students: Remote Possiblities
Want to hear about an impossible situation that gets even more difficult? Listen to host Kevin Hogan talk to PresenceLearning CEO Kate Eberle Walker to discuss how districts are utilizing teletherapy to deliver special education-related services. The company works with hundreds of school districts across the country and since COVID-19 related school closures, hundreds…
Building a Strong Middle Class Through Career Pathways Programs
The Center for American Progress recently released a report that both identifies the gaping need for the restructuring of the American education system and suggests ways to accomplish this with a renewed emphasis on CTE (Career and Technical Education). Author Laura Jimenez writes: “One key solution is to ensure that there are meaningful pathways from…
A Look Into the Future of EdTech
In this episode of Remote Possibilities, Sean Slade, Senior Director of Global Outreach at ASCD, details the best education practices that will now become mainstream as a result of this madness. Topics include: Learning Communities “Our learning communities can be our classrooms, whether they are in person or, as we are now, online. They…
MarketScale Online Learning Set to Empower ‘Fans First’ Approach
Dallas, Texas – MarketScale announced the launch of Fans First by MarketScale, a new Original Online Learning production. Fans First is your ticket to creating a holistic, engaging and awe-inspiring customer experience that, prior to this course, you likely thought impossible. Featuring Jesse Cole, owner of the Savannah Bananas, as the instructor and guide, the…
More Investment Dollars Flow for Global Education Initiatives
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will provide an additional US$250 million to help developing countries respond to the immediate and long-term disruptions to education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This brings GPE’s total coronavirus response funding to more than US$500 million. The funding will help sustain learning for up to 355 million children in 67 countries….
Robots Won’t Replace Teachers, But AI Can Be a Great Assist
AI and machine learning have made a major impact in many industries—why not teaching? The frequent question is, will robots replace teachers? No, that’s unlikely ever to happen, but new technology can provide assistance to teachers. In this Online Learning Minute, host Brian Runo explains why these advanced technologies have the capability to reimagine…
25 Free Online Classes Available Right Now
There’s never a bad time to learn something new. Whether you’re looking to advance your career, broaden your knowledge, or just pass the time, pursuing a new interest is a great way to exercise your mind and inspire growth in your life. Thanks to the internet, taking on an educational goal has never been easier….
ACT Announces Change in Leadership, Cost-Cutting Measures
ACT, the nonprofit organization that develops and delivers the ACT test, announced today a change in leadership and a series of cost-cutting measures to enable it to continue to serve students into the future, despite the current negative business impact of COVID-19. CEO Marten Roorda is leaving ACT, with Chief Operating Officer Janet Godwin selected…
Feds Approve Second Wave of Perkins Career and Technical Education State Plans
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced this week the Department of Education has approved nine additional career and technical education (CTE) state plans. Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming are the latest states to have their CTE plans approved under the new, bipartisan Strengthening Career and Technical Education…
DroneUp Releases Operation Last-Mile: Critical Drone Delivery – a Part 107 Report
Virginia Beach, Virginia, June 2, 2020 – DroneUp recently partnered with Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) in tests designed to determine how unmanned aerial systems can assist with critical delivery during times of crisis under the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Part 107 regulations. The test participants conducted exercises from April 6 through April 9,…
Success in the Next Normal Starts with Employee Education and Reskilling
Hiring has historically been the most common tactic for addressing skills gaps. It is also extremely expensive (as high as 3x a yearly salary according to some models). Contrast that with reskilling which is becoming increasingly cost-effective and scalable. Advancements in technologies and delivery methods have created whole sub-sectors of learning and development that are…
How Workplace Learning Must Adapt: Remote Possibilities
Not all the news coming out of this madness is bad. Sam Herring, Vice President and General Manager of Intrepid by VitalSource talks about how this current crisis can be a time of resourcefulness and innovation in the workplace learning space. He illustrated these thoughts with how one of largest not‐for‐profit, academic health systems…
The Problem With Unregulated Screentime
A survey released recently by ParentsTogether, a national parent-led organization with over 2 million members, shows the vast majority of parents are concerned about a massive spike in their children’s screen time during the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly half of respondents’ kids (48%) are currently spending more than six hours per day online (a nearly 500%…
Supers to EdTech Companies: Don’t Call Us, We’ll call you
From this survey published by the National Superintendents Roundtable COVID-19 has unleashed a tsunami of work for school superintendents as they distribute food to students, implement distance learning, and prepare for a different fall school environment. What’s not helping, they say, is a flood of sales calls from technology vendors offering to help. The National…
Online Learning is Here to Stay. Learn What that Means for Universities.
Of the many things that are uncertain about how American higher education will look in fall 2020, one thing is not: Online learning is here to stay. That doesn’t mean that there will be no in-person instruction Whether or not they are offering some in-person instruction, colleges will need to enable students to participate remotely….
3 Big EdTech Deals Of The Week (May 28, 2020)
Top Hat, the leading active learning platform for higher education, announced it is acquiring more than 400 higher education textbook titles published by Nelson, Canada’s largest educational publisher. Top Hat will convert these print-only titles into digital courseware on its platform and infuse them with interactive elements, enabling educators to bring active learning to life…
What the Data Says About Learning Loss During COVID: Remote Possibilities
The first data are in regarding learning loss during the pandemic and the results don’t look good. In this episode of Remote Possibilities, Kevin Hogan talks with Stuart Udell, CEO of Achieve3000, and one of the authors of a new study by the Successful Practices Network and the Center for College & Career Readiness,…
Exploring the State of University Online Learning
This episode of the MarketScale Online Learning Minute featured Ray Schroeder, professor at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS), senior fellow of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and founder of the Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service. Ray has been a pioneer of the online learning field and launched the UIS’s…
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