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Tencent | April 30, 2020

Education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, remotely and on digital platforms. The COVID-19 has resulted in schools shut all across the world. Globally, over 1.2 billion children are out of classroom. ...

edsurge | February 19, 2020

In an effort to help educators, parents and other education technology consumers make better choices about the products they use, Digital Promise spent the last year developing a “research-based design” product certification. And earlier this month, the nonprofit announced that 13 education companies had become the first to earn the distinction. The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms&md...

edsurge | March 19, 2020

As educators across the United States grapple with the new reality facing them and their students as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, many are being advised to implement digital learning—some for the first time.Whether teachers have done this before or not, it’s new territory for everyone. An e-learning day or two during a snowstorm last winter does not amount to what the education field is facing right now: prolonged, indefinite school closures enforced with hardly a moment’...

Study International | March 24, 2020

Many universities are switching to online exams during COVID-19.For one, Oxbridge’s summer assessments are moving online. Over at Imperial College London, 280 medical students successfully completed final-year exams last week. The university says this a historic first for medical studies.If you’re worried about this shift to online exams during COVID-19, fret not. History tell us it’s a pretty untapped area, but there’s potential to be uncovered.Online exams during COVID-...