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How Publicly Available Broadband Data Can Help Us Close the Connectivity Gap

Education Superhighway

These are critical questions, and we are committed to ensuring that when it comes to our work, the answers around our use of broadband data are clear. As a result, more schools can upgrade their broadband networks and give their students equal access to countless digital learning opportunities. TRANSPARENCY DRIVES CHANGE.

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Network Essentials: Securing Buy-In For Your Network Upgrade

Education Superhighway

Effective network improvement projects are complex and require educational alignment, careful budgeting, and stakeholder management to be successful. Before embarking on a network upgrade, school districts should agree on a compelling vision for how students can benefit from new technologies. Assemble your support team.

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3 ways we support school districts

Education Superhighway

High-speed broadband that can support digital learning requires a combination of scalable fiber-optic connections, sufficient and affordable bandwidth, and robust internal networks that can deliver information onto student devices in the classroom. Translate your technology plans into reality using e-rate funding. NAVIGATE E-RATE.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

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OPINION: Tribal colleges, lifeline to rural and disenfranchised Native communities, need our help more than ever

The Hechinger Report

For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. Many offer much-needed internet service, providing access to some of the 35 percent of tribal land residents who do not have broadband service.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business. DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." Layoffs at General Assembly (7% of staff). Why, schools of course.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

Edsurge

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., While here in the U.S., boasts merely 120,000 enrollments.