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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

CapStone Holdings | February 08, 2022

CapStone Holdings Inc, a self-funded family office business incubator and investment group – announced today their partnership with the Mr. October Foundation to bring its STEM initiative to St. Louis this spring. The collaboration includes a national leading STEM curriculum from STEM 101, the newly emerged City Foundry STL, and added funding and support from Jim Crane, CEO of Crane Worldwide Logistics. The Mr. October Foundation, led by Major League Baseball legend Reggie Jackson, and STE...

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

businesswire | December 07, 2020

IHRDC recently delivered two major virtual learning programs for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) a two-week program for 400 Management Graduate Trainees and an eight-week program for 650 Technical Graduate Trainees. The need was stated by Fatima Suraj Yakubu, NNPC’s General Manager Talent, “We have 1,050 recent graduates, isolated at home because of Covid.19, who need to develop strong backgrounds in job-related oil and gas industry topics. We asked ...

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

Instructure Holdings, Inc. | November 09, 2021

Instructure Holdings, Inc. (Instructure) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Kimono, a leader in cloud-based data integration and interoperability for education. A long-time partner, and preferred integration solution of Canvas LMS, Kimono will be rebranded as Elevate Data Sync as it joins the Instructure Learning Platform. Elevate Data Sync is a solution built specifically for education that enables secure syncing of student, staff, and learning data across applications ...

educationdive | February 13, 2020

The EdTech Genome Project, an initiative of the nonprofit Jefferson Education Exchange aimed at helping schools and districts make better-informed decisions when purchasing ed tech solutions, has determined 10 factors that influence whether classroom tech implementations will succeed, with further study on these variables occurring over the coming year. Each year, educators spend more than $13 billion on ed tech tools and products, but the vast majority of purchases go unused or are not implemen...