On October 7, seven talented edtech entrepreneurs will take center stage at the final event of the 2019 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC). Each finalist hopes to impress the expert judges with a winning pitch as they vie for a share of more than $120,000 in cash and prizes. It’s been a long […]
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At the age of 18, most aspiring developers seek a place studying computer science at college. They come out with the skills to pursue an exciting and highly rewarding six-figure career. But what if you don’t want all the debt or you can’t just start again? That’s where the Complete Computer Science Master Class Bundle
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The Chubb’s Third Annual Cyber Report reveals employee education is key for small businesses to prevent cyberattacks. Even with headline after headline about the latest data breach, people are not encouraged to defend against their cyber exposure. The goal of the report is to determine the level of understanding individuals have about their cyber risks.
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Interesting interview with Anna Brailsford – Code First: Girls, CEO What is your background briefly? I’ve been working in edtech for over ten years. My first introduction was actually through the family business. I studied English and History at Edinburgh and would return home to work during the holidays. Early exposure taught me a great
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The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Online higher education may cost more than it could for students and earn less for universities thanks to a little-known $1 billion industry of for-profit
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Boosters of online higher education have long held out the lofty promise that it would bring down the spiraling cost of college while also widening its reach. But a little-known industry of for-profit middlemen, which is skimming off as much as 80% of the proceeds and has U.S. revenues of $1 billion annually, may be
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PATCHOGUE, N.Y., Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The evolution of technology has been accompanied by a myriad of changes across a host of industries, education included. The ways that students absorb information, as well as the strategies teachers use to dispense said information, have shifted with new technology in mind. Online marketing agency, fishbat, explains
Digital credentials can be found in a variety of places. In educational games, a learner may get a badge after reaching a certain level or mastering a certain skill within the game. In the workforce, a digital badge certifies that a person has taken a professional development course and demonstrated mastery of a set of
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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is a priority for governments around the world. For example, the UK’s current commitment to increasing investment in research and development to 2.4 percent of GDP by 2027 means that we need to train 260,000 more researchers to carry out this work. There has long been a perceived
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About 1,200 adults in uniform went “Back to School” yesterday. No, not to their wooden desks, blue books and plastic seats. But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). Now in its 19th year, the
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