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edsurge | February 06, 2020

The U.S. Department of Education hopes that the blockchain technology transforming the finance and logistics industries could play a role in making education records more portable and transparent. The federal agency has provided $2 million to the American Council on Education to organize a new Education Blockchain Initiative, the council announced Thursday. The endeavor will support research about blockchain systems and fund a competition to select experiments testing ways to apply the technolog...

Study International | April 08, 2020

Did you know you could access hundreds of courses from Ivy League universities on one platform alone? Class Central offers 450 free online courses from Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. For many, studying at any of these prestigious institutions would be an academic dream come true. Well, now you can make that happen – remotely. Here are the free online courses from Ivy League universities, classified according to subjects by ...

prnewswire | October 06, 2020

iD Tech, the global leader in STEM education, has launched online math tutoring as part of their popular Online Private Lessons—live, one-on-one remote instruction customized to students' interests, skill levels, and goals. Sessions are led by subject-matter experts - who serve as mentors as much as they do teachers - and are being rolled out to meet the growing need for new and dynamic learning experiences that are also relevant and personal in nature. The best-in-class tech education...

edsurge | March 11, 2020

Career day and field trips—two staples of American education. But organizing them can pose logistical and financial challenges for schools. Finding presenters, syncing calendars and arranging transportation are just some of the headaches that may arise. Now ways exist to beam those experiences into schools. Among them: Nepris, provider of an online tool to connect classrooms and workplaces through live and recorded video streams with a professional. Founded in 2014, the company has amassed...