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Common Sense | June 30, 2020

With the prospect of another distance learning school year on the horizon due to the coronavirus pandemic, a new analysis released today finds that a full 15 to 16 million public school students across the United States live in households without adequate internet access or computing devices to facilitate distance learning. The analysis, from Common Sense and Boston Consulting Group, also finds that almost 10% of public school teachers (300,000 to 400,000) are also caught in the gap, affecting t...

edsurge | March 03, 2020

Open educational resources have gone global and may help make learning more accessible, equitable and inclusive around the world. So says the new Educause Horizon report, which identifies technologies and trends that are changing higher education. This year’s forecast was created by nearly five dozen higher education experts, a third of them from institutions outside of the U.S. OER was one of six “emerging technologies and practices” the panelists highlighted as most likely to...

Education Technology

Zayo Group | June 03, 2022

On June 2nd, Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (Zayo), announced the acquisition of Education Networks of America (ENA), a prominent solutions provider for K-12 school districts specializing in cybersecurity, network connectivity, and communications. ENA serves schools that specialize in E-Rate, a federally-funded program. Zayo has served K-12 consumers for over six years and today powers school districts across states, including Texas, Oregon, California, Washington, Georgia, Arizona, Co...

Education Technology

prnewswire | November 03, 2020

Ambow Education Holding Ltd, a leading national provider of educational and career enhancement services in China, has entered a strategic partnership with Cisco, the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet, to cooperatively launch international career education, training and certification services, all online.With this partnership, Ambow and Cisco will provide high-quality online courses as well as authoritative certification of IT and the Internet, for college students and indus...