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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

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Yet the results revealed that devices, by themselves, have a limited impact, at best, on learning outcomes. Two and a half million laptops later, some critics point out the project’s failures with its Western-centric approach and “technologically utopian” vision that hailed technology as the answer to difficult social problems.

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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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eLearning Brothers’ CIP Defender game Stay Above Competition Founded in 2009, eLearning Brothers currently offers more than 500 pre-made online courses in areas from management to workplace safety to cybersecurity, and which also work on mobile devices. “We want to play in the major leagues.” million stock images and graphics.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

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That was when he saw firsthand “not only the scale of educational failure on the continent, but also the barriers to solving it,” he recalls via email. To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps.

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Future Proofing Your Video Platform: A Cautionary Tale About Obsolescence

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Famous failures abound: Blackberry remained committed to the physical keyboard as its competitors leapfrogged them with smartphones and mobile apps. For CIOs, future proofing is about guarding against obsolescence and extending the useful life of technology investments. Passive video linked from an LMS no longer cuts it.

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

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This is a great opportunity for students to make good use of their mobile devices, which most own, and those devices usually have recording features that allow them to record an interview using just audio or audio and video, or even record right into a learning management system.

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Robust Networking and Data Center Solutions Power Tech Tools in the Classroom

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District leaders and community stakeholders typically express more excitement about highly visible end-user technologies such as mobile devices and interactive whiteboards, Brantley says. “A “And that was only possible because of the upgrades to get our infrastructure right.”.

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How Transparent is School Data When Parents Can’t Find or Understand it?

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Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students.