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4 Ways Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Earn Trust and Unlock New Opportunities With Education Customers

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The broader post-secondary landscape, including higher education and workforce development, has also quickly embraced online learning and up-skilling opportunities to better engage students and employees remotely.

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Leading the Digital Transformation in Rural Districts During Crisis and Beyond

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One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. Now, they are employing creative methods, such as expanding the reach of the school’s broadband so students can do work from the parking lot or in the surrounding area, having off-duty patrol cars become hotspots across the district.

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

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Source: EdSurge Higher Education & Post-Secondary Post-secondary tools altogether saw a notable bump in funding. based provider of an online K-8 math product has been around since 2006, but last year enjoyed a 40 percent increase in district adoption, according to John Rogers, who leads education investments for Rise.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

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I can’t help but notice that mobile technologies have been one to three years out from widespread adoption since 2006. Here’s what fourteen years’ worth of predictions look like: Click for full-size. “Smart objects” (a.k.a. “the Internet of Things”) have been on the horizon since 2009.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

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The agency issued an order to support affordable access to high-speed broadband in particular (not merely “access to the Internet”) and to boost access and bandwidth of schools’ WiFi networks. A $21 million settlement paid by NEC in 2006 for price-fixing. ” Among them: an $8.71

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