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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

prnewswire | January 21, 2021

Labor force improvement pioneer Penn Foster today declared a critical new speculation from BayPine and Two Sigma Impact to quicken the form out of its computerized learning stage zeroed in on planning frontline laborers to flourish inside high-development, high-expertise occupations. The two speculation organizations will band together with Penn Foster to acquire new capacities information science and trend setting innovation to help the organization keep on contribution down to earth, reasonabl...

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

Infosys Foundation USA | August 18, 2021

Infosys Foundation USA, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to computer science (CS) and maker education across the U.S., announced today that it is adding four additional computer science modules for K-12 teachers to its digital learning platform, the Pathfinders Online Institute. Educators can now choose from over 30 unique courses and trainings geared to meet different skill-levels, grades and programming interests. The new offerings are meant to help ease teachers back into the classr...

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...

nasdaq | April 06, 2020

The novel coronavirus has spread across 208 countries and infected over a million people worldwide. Stay-at-home orders have been issued by governments for safety against the spread of the coronavirus. Such lockdowns have impacted education of nearly 1 billion children globally. Hence, schools and universities have resorted to existing technology platforms like Microsoft and Google and other conferencing apps like Zoom to impart lessons. This has boosted the online education industry. Remote sch...