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edsurge | April 07, 2020

As schools and colleges shutter across the world, Khan Academy has seen unprecedented web traffic to its online instructional videos and exercises. Before COVID-19 struck, the site saw about 18 million users each month. In recent weeks, “we’ve seen traffic grow two-and-a-half to three times the normal,” says Khan in an interview. He anticipates that could grow to seven-folds in the coming months. On top of that, users are spending twice as long on the site as they usually would...

Study International | April 13, 2020

Imagine you’ve been set a university assignment that you need to find specific scholarly articles, reports, online books and other materials for. But ou don’t have much time to complete it and you don’t want to waste your time scrolling through web page after webpage. Introducing your next best friend: the Google Scholar search engine Otherwise known as the academic version of Google, the Google Scholar search engine saves the day by searching repositories of publishers, univer...

2U | June 23, 2020

Education technology company 2U will offer scholarships of $2,500 each to "Black, Latino, and Indigenous learners, as well as women," to attend online technical training programs. According to the company’s June 10 statement, it will provide the scholarships, totaling $3 million, to candidates demonstrating "both need and merit." 2U said the program is specifically for individuals from underrepresented groups enduring financial hardship or who lost their jobs.The ...

prnewswire | September 10, 2020

Have you ever wondered how a Toyota vehicle is designed? Or how the Toyota Camry, America's best-selling sedan for 18 straight years, is built? Or what it is like to work in a modern manufacturing environment? Well, now you can easily find the answers to those questions virtually. Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) has launched an exciting new virtual education hub providing visitors with an immersive experience and a chance to visit many of its U.S. manufacturing facilities. The hub includes...