TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Many rural areas don’t have good learning centers and as a result, students travel to capital Dhaka to prepare for their university admission exams. Access to education in Bangladesh is filled with inequalities, say the founders of edtech 10 Minute School. Originally […]

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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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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. Proctorio, and other programs like it, is designed to keep an eye on students while they’re taking tests.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Engaged student and alum supporter: My daughter gets very excited when she hears talk about the university she attended. That’s because her school did a great job of engaging her while she was still a student. The university kept her engaged as life changed. She was able to engage with prospects and recent alums.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Founded in 1898, Dallas Baptist University (DBU) offers a variety of educational opportunities for individuals of all ages and academic backgrounds. According to Schubert, the school has used the same Student Information System (SIS) for over 20 years to meet recruitment and admissions needs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. This results in many students feeling that their universities didn’t give them adequate career support.

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The Verge

AUGUST 16, 2020

College student Liam Porr used the language-generating AI tool GPT-3 to produce a fake blog post that recently landed in the No. OT usually results in ideas that are impractical, impossible, or even stupid. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. 1 spot on Hacker News, MIT Technology Review reported.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Secrets to Gaining Admission to the World’s Topic Universities,” and is CEO of Crimson Education , a university admissions consulting company. The dropouts are no ordinary dropouts – they had won places at the most prestigious universities in the world and took high school extremely seriously. Jamie Beaton. Contributor.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I How did one email lead to a university-wide ban?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Jordan Wright is the co-founder & CEO of Comfy, an Austin startup changing the way university students find housing. In today’s crowded app stores, you must put in the elbow grease to help your app show in top results. Build it and they will come” hasn’t worked in app stores for years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The admissions process for international students applying to colleges is outdated. students are able to use to apply to a variety of schools in one go. Instead, international students must navigate thousands of schools, each having their own requirements and application process, on a one by one basis.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

There was a time when that annual rite of passage known as spring break meant one thing for nearly every college student: the chance to let loose—usually in a warm climate—and party down. Indeed, a spring break sojourn was, and is, a de rigueur part of the university experience as much as dorm rooms, lecture halls and frat parties.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded in 1863 as a land-grant university, the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) has remained unwavering in its commitment to social change and creating a better world. News & World Report’s Best Colleges Guide, making it one of the most improved institutions among top tier public universities in America.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a math major at the University of Waterloo, created a mini fusor that resembles an actual tokamak and hooked it up to a humble 12kV neon sign transformer for power. The result was a setup that could successfully produce plasma, which is where the fusion magic happens. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Now, co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko and Tyler Whittle, a senior associate with the firm, have developed a new program to help student teams similarly develop an understanding of what big ideas look like — and why most concepts are not big ideas. Are you funding these students? Were these students primarily from Stanford?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Teams made up of like-minded people from similar backgrounds are limited in their breadth of perspectives, and, as a result, they limit the potential of their companies. Let’s take specific actions that will result in more female leadership in the startup world. Hiring to improve results.

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NetWits

JULY 11, 2012

Schools have a unique opportunity to build their Facebook following and stay connected with alumni due to the captive audience and deep relationships that are built with students, families and faculty. Get “Likes” from Students & Families. The best time to build that relationship is while they’re a student at your school.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

When Vipul Patel lost half of his college credits while transferring from Florida Institute of Technology to Boston University, he began digging for answers. Patel soon stumbled upon equivalency tables , where universities track which courses from other institutions can be counted for credit during a transfer process.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Many teachers and parents in Indonesia rely on WhatsApp to keep in touch, creating “multiple groups that often become messy and highly ineffective, and result in confusion or lost threads,” says Rizky Aniez, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Gredu. The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said Monday it’s reinstating requirements that students provide scores from the SAT or ACT standardized tests for future admissions. At the start of the pandemic, many schools waived standardized test requirements for incoming students or, like MIT, made reporting them optional.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. From math problem solvers and note-taking tools to book trackers and summary apps, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite educational and organizational apps for students to try this year.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

Image: University of Liverpool. The machine, designed by scientists from the UK’s University of Liverpool, is far from fully autonomous: it needs to be programmed with the location of lab equipment and can’t design its own experiments. The robot mixed samples, exposed them to light, and analyzed the results.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Applying to colleges is one of the hardest parts of high school, especially for students who want to study abroad. The team told TechCrunch in an email that Pasari was prompted by his own experiences as a student. As a result, students were left to navigate the college application process on their own.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Instead of only being able to report your overall funding totals, fund accounting allows you can report the total number of students supported, the total dollars that were dispersed, average award size, and other key statistics. At a university,?a has a different meaning?in nonprofit organization.? a fund may be an endowment.?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Between August 23rd and 24th, Ian Linkletter, a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), made a series of tweets criticizing a software that his school uses. The software was called Proctorio, an online test-proctoring tool that monitors students for suspicious behavior while they take virtual exams.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

Cloud for Good provides Salesforce implementation services for institutions looking to modernize their platform to meet the ever-changing needs of students, staff, and faculty. This will provide prospective students with a consistent, data-backed experience no matter who they speak to on the recruitment & admissions team.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 17, 2022

Louisiana State University Online and Continuing Education (LSU Online) is a part of the LSU family of institutions, a group of accredited, top-tier universities leading the charge toward innovations in distance learning. LSU’s Continuing Education program has been helping students realize their potential since 1924.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If 2020 was about the initial COVID-19 shock and our emergency responses, and 2021 was about trying to understand the implications of all the unprecedented events going on and appointing new leaders to lead us out of this crisis, then 2022 will be about bold actions and investments that will result in long-term impact and success in the era ahead.

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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 26, 2014

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. Instead of trying to market directly to students at those schools (“but we already have a social network!”) Facebook targeted schools in the vicinity, which would inevitably be home to friends of the target school’s students.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

EPIC claims that the firms violate the privacy rights of students. Others track students’ activity during the test via their webcams and microphones and flag potentially suspicious behavior to their instructor, using either algorithms or live monitoring. So, too, has scrutiny on its providers.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As James Madison University (JMU) prepared for Fall 2020 classes, freshman parent and Tableau Partner, Lee Feinberg, volunteered to help improve the school’s Stop The Spread dashboard. Editor's note: this story was originally published on James Madison University News. . Sometimes help comes from unexpected places.

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2012

Where : Student Center, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122. We've put together an agenda that includes sessions for both nonprofit staff and leadership - and we encourage you to bring more than one person from your organization, for a broader learning experience. Cost : Free! The full agenda is available online.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Posted by Sherry Yang, Research Scientist, and Yilun Du, Student Researcher, Google Research, Brain Team Building models that solve a diverse set of tasks has become a dominant paradigm in the domains of vision and language. image sequences) as a universal interface for conveying action and observation behavior in different environments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. Our vision is to provide equal opportunities for students with disabilities and help them overcome a major barrier to accessing to the most valuable prize in society: a great education. copyright law.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

The ongoing conversation about student debt and the value of a college credential exacerbates the issue for higher education institutions. do not feel their education was worth the cost, colleges and universities have to work harder and smarter to recruit, enroll, and retain students.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s a vital component of effectively delivering results. Robert Morris University’s mission is to help students become engaged, productive, and successful citizens. Technology is a key enabler for RMU, helping the university understand and serve the needs of its community.

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