Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For those of us who also focused on training, instruction, and professional learning for nonprofits, the New Media Consortium , has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale for the past ten years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There’s nothing easy about learning a language, and so it’s also maybe no surprise that there are plenty of startups that want to make life easier for students. One of the latest entrants to this market is MagniLearn , an AI-centric startup that provides students with individualized lessons based on their progress.

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Tableau

JUNE 15, 2021

Drumroll, please: Nominations and applications for the 2021 Tableau Ambassador Program are now open! Before we opened this nomination cycle, we asked the community for input on how to improve the ambassador programs. They teach, share, lead, innovate, and inspire. Senior Community Program Manager, Recognition Programs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

An Indian startup that began its life after the global pandemic broke last year said on Tuesday it has concluded its third financing round as it enables hundreds of thousands of teachers in the world’s second-largest internet market to run classes online and serve their students. Bangalore-based Teachmint said today it has raised $16.5

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

a system that trains LLMs and the RAG ystem together, resulting in Contextual Language Models that are tuned for specific purposes for which they outperform leading commercial and open source models. The tool now helps teachers, too, giving them access to detailed reports on student progress.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But they’re not apps necessarily designed for classrooms, and that fact has opened a gap in the market for those looking to build something more fit to the purpose. “Younger kids need face-to-face contact, but in college, many students are now juggling work, family and studying, and online can be much more convenient.”

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Teach Some Curiosity. I want students to be playing with technology — using it, finding out what they like, what they don’t like. It’s necessary to point students towards resources, but it isn’t always necessary to choose tools for them. This opened my world to social media and its impact on business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation.

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Tableau

JUNE 12, 2023

Britt Staniar Senior Community Program Manager, Recognition Programs Ateken Abla June 12, 2023 - 10:41pm June 14, 2023 Nominations and applications for the 2023 Tableau Ambassador Program are now open. They teach, share, lead, innovate, and inspire. Nominations will be open from June 14, 2023, through July 14, 2023, at 11:59 p.m.

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Tableau

JUNE 8, 2022

Nominations and applications for the 2022 Tableau Ambassador Program are now open. You can find them answering questions in our forums, publishing content on social platforms, leading or speaking at user groups, contributing code on Github, and teaching people about data visualization. They teach, share, lead, innovate, and inspire.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see this lesson in the local councils of London trying to open up their data and their leadership. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. To Mama With Love is an open, community campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. Its an exciting time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

As with every edtech startup, a common tension exists : the platform has to be hard enough to teach consumers something, but fun (or easy) enough for them to actually use it. We want to create the go-to platform where a student, anywhere in the world, can access content in the most frictionless way possible,” Ruano said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms. The obvious place for Atom was to start was online learning aimed at students.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas. The application is against the public interest.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. multiple students inquired.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 2, 2018

It allows students the opportunity collaborate in live time from any device, and from any location, in addition to constantly making learning visible. Strong, powerful, and coherent text is always important- don’t get me wrong- but there are always ways to increase and promote student creativity within Google Docs. #1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Saudi Arabia to teach a course at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as part of the Winter Enrichment Program. During my time at KAUST I was able to meet with various student groups as well as university staff to learn more about their projects, initiatives, and ideas.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

A diverse collection of students with big ideas will split about $95,000 in prize money after competing in T-Mobile’s Changemaker Challenge. STEM for the South Bronx (Bronx, New York) A high school robotics team with a vision to create an education center that is open to the public to explore the world of STEM. .

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

When I showed up, 16 eager students quietly listened to my story of starting and running businesses, and helping other entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground. After discussing a range of ideas, the class was all in agreement: They wanted to open an ice cream store. Not just any business, however. Staying competitive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. For a minimum of $3,000, it offers to teach people skills, such as technical writing, and help prime them find high-paying tech jobs. The students attending her academy, MyTechBestFriend, were upset.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Tableau Ambassadors teach and share while fostering a positive and supportive space within the data community. Tableau Ambassadors serve one-year terms in one of seven branches: Forums, User Groups, Student, DataDev, Public, Social, and CRM Analytics. What do Tableau Student Ambassadors do? Britt Staniar. Alyssa Jenson.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

With both sides of the spectrum in mind, he wants Coderhouse to sit somewhere in the middle, combining the affordability of MOOCs (massive open online course providers) and the engagement of bootcamps. Sosnik thinks that graduation rates are a good proxy for impact and student satisfaction. Centralize it all.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2020

Back in 2015, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he had started a school to teach his five kids, eventually expanding it as a non-profit school for some children of SpaceX employees. I just wish he would have chosen instead to partner with Oakland or Alum Rock, a school district that serves low income students in Silicon Valley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The grad students in my class will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and around the world.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

When he came home to Tunis, he met many students who wanted to build products like him each summer. His new job was to open a subsidiary for a French open source tech startup and that required hiring developers on the ground. Students on the platform go through two types of programs.

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Forum One

MAY 14, 2009

I've just been introduced to what look like useful new online tools for reproductive health students, faculty, and professionals, produced by The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP). Organizations can recruit students by listing program information online.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Real teaching involves sight and sound, but also the context of how something is delivered in the vernacular of how a student actually learns,” Ma said. With Numerade avoiding both live learning and Wolfram Alpha-style explainers that just give the answer to students, the company has turned to a third option: videos.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The company claims that there’s an estimated 1 million software engineering job openings in Latin America, but fewer than 100,000 professionals that have training suitable for those roles. Lambda School’s ISA terms ask students to pay 17% of their monthly salary for 24 months once they earn $4,167 monthly. The Henry team.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The software was called Proctorio, an online test-proctoring tool that monitors students for suspicious behavior while they take virtual exams. This is the one that will show you, beyond a doubt, the emotional harm you are doing to students by using this technology.”. They are afraid of students. Proctorio is afraid.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2007

Our opening keynoter at the 8th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance was Tony Deifell, who has been working as the senior strategy person at Kaboom!, The questions were illustrated by the stories behind the pictures shot by his students at the state school for the blind in North Carolina. Tony Deifell rocks! Yeah, she's white.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Instead, Huang left teaching after seven years because of how New York City handled the coronavirus pandemic in schools. Tensions between educators and NYC officials grew over the past few weeks, as school openings were delayed twice and staffing shortages continue. Honestly, I have no confidence in the city,” she says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network of HASTAC, announced its second annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. A few days ago, the John D. and Catherine T.

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