EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
SAP | March 15, 2021
SAP SE today declared an achievement of 5,000,000 course enlistments on its openSAP stage – a free online stage that offers imaginative, master drove gigantic open online courses with going with microlearning and web recordings across a scope of themes for students, all things considered.
openSAP was set up in 2013 to give people fundamental information and the chance to gain the abilities important to explore the SAP® programming scene, all with the adaptability to gain from anyplace whenever. Utilizing attempted and confided in learning ideas, the online stage incorporates highlights, for example, gamification and conversation gatherings to permit students to collaborate with specialists and companions in a manner that is impactful and pleasant. Facilitated and run by the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), SAP can think back on numerous long stretches of close joint effort and effective codevelopment with the establishment drove by Director and CEO Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel.
"In today's digitally-driven age, it's important to create a learning environment that is accessible for all," said Professor Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE. "With the COVID-19 pandemic upending all facets of life and forcing many to move to a remote working and learning environment, it has become more important than ever to lower the barriers to essential knowledge to provide learners with the right tools and resources to continue to achieve and further their skills. It is tremendous to see what we have achieved so far with openSAP, and we are excited to continue to be part of our customers' learning journeys as we work to meet their evolving needs."
The web based learning stage has as of late seen sped up development, with the quantity obviously enlistments multiplying throughout the most recent three years. Enlistments in around 250 unique courses normal out to 20,000 enlistments for every course, adding up to 1.2 million students no matter how you look at it. While the stage keeps on giving new seminars on the most recent subjects and developments, like SAP S/4HANA®, SAP Business Technology Platform, canny incorporation, advanced change and AI, more seasoned courses are as yet significant and reliably pull in new enlistments.
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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 within a school environment.
"The acquisition underscores Instructure's vision of building education's most integrated platform and demonstrates our deep commitment to openness. We want to give schools the freedom of choice to connect with their preferred applications. By incorporating Kimono's adaptable, cloud-based integration and interoperability solution as Elevate Data Sync, we strengthen our ability to more seamlessly connect users with the applications they love."
Steve Daly, CEO of Instructure
Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, the team at Kimono has over 20 years of experience developing integration solutions for K-12 and higher education. The company serves six state education agencies, over 2300 districts, 27,000 schools and universities, and more than 16 million students globally.
The move extends Instructure's learning data integration and rostering capabilities for student information systems (SIS). With bi-directional sharing, Elevate Data Sync ensures data, grades, and rosters stay synchronized between edtech applications and student information systems (SIS). Schools ensure the accuracy, security, and accessibility with complete control of their integrations—sharing only the data elements they choose and only with the applications they authorize. Because Elevate Data Sync is standards-agnostic, it supports industry-standard data models and protocols—such as OneRoster, LIS, SIF, APIs, and CSV—and also offers the flexibility to meet needs of schools and applications.
"We developed an adaptable, cloud-based platform that is the most comprehensive education interoperability solution available," said Steve Curtis, CEO of Kimono. "Adding that technology to the Instructure Learning Platform will accelerate Instructure's plans to provide broad support and deeper integration points to the platform for thousands of edtech providers globally. As a result, schools and higher education institutions will be further empowered to craft the digital learning environment that meets the unique needs of their students."
The Instructure Learning Platform is an open, reliable, and extensible learning ecosystem enabling a digital learning environment for educators, students, and institutions. The platform is made up of several key pillars—such as learning management, assessment, and analytics —that work together to enrich, support, and connect every aspect of teaching and learning. Elevate Data Sync will be a vital part of the platform, driving interoperability and ease of use.
ABOUT INSTRUCTURE
Instructure is an education technology company dedicated to elevating student success, amplifying the power of teaching, and inspiring everyone to learn together. Today the Instructure Learning Platform supports more than 30 million educators and learners around the world.
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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
prnewswire | December 14, 2020
Computer based intelligence World School (AIWS) is dispatching its distant self-learning stage giving AI and Coding innovation training to understudies from ages 7 to 18.
AIWS declares the worldwide dispatch of its independent internet learning stage giving AI learning encounters to understudies at home, to self taught students and in K12 schools.
The world is changing quicker than at any other time in the midst of these testing seasons of COVID. Youngsters wellbeing is principal like never before, and they need to confront these difficulties and explore them effectively later on. To battle this, AIWS accepts that advancement, innovativeness and STEM abilities will be basic to set up one's' kid to get future-prepared. Artificial intelligence and Coding gives an upper hand when applying to universities, temporary jobs, and for profession openings. It is significant that each kid is carefully proficient from the wellbeing of their homes, to flourish and prevail in an undeniably mind boggling world.
Kids today grow up around AI-controlled gadgets. AIWS accepts that with the information on how AI functions and its effect, they can possibly make creative answers for true issues changing social orders and molding the eventual fate of the planet.
The AIWS Founders and Governing Board who have been engaged with training, mechanical technology and software engineering for quite a long time, have cautiously curated another understudy focused far off learning scene zeroed in on the five Big Ideas of AI. The course is intended to be fun, inventive, collective, moral, sympathetic, comprehensive, intentional and for social great.
Understudies ages 7 to 18 will rejuvenate their undertakings with simple to-utilize age-suitable coding instruments, for example, S4AIWS Scratch AI augmentation, Sn4AIWS Snap! Man-made intelligence expansion, Phiro Code cell phone application, MIT App Inventor, Python and JavaScript.
The 200+ active continuous coding encounters are instinctive, independent, self-coordinated with an assortment of STEM difficulties and undertaking based learning draws near. The learning results of the experiential educational plan are required to quicken singular execution, and drive both school and vocation achievement.
About AI World School
We are a team of educators and technologists who are passionate about helping students explore and understand the fundamentals of AI and coding and the role that it plays in our daily life.
Our mission is to help students become future-ready as they prepare for careers that will require an understanding of artificial intelligence as a key skill to prepare children to flourish in the era of AI.
AI World School is brought to you by Robotix the makers of Phiro, Robobricks, and Playbits which are products used in classrooms around the world. In 2016, Phiro from Robotix was recognized by Intel as one of "America's Greatest Makers."
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