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Choosing a Scholarship Award Management System

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They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who fit donors specific requirements, shepherd those students through the application process, manage scholarship review committees, disburse awards, and report back to the donors how their funds were utilized. What is an award management system?

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YouTuber designs and 3D prints a 35mm analog video camera

TechSpot

The industrial design student created a few prototypes to trial different film transfer methods, ultimately settling on a synchronized gear and cam mechanism driven by a single DC motor.

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Professor Scott Galloway just raised $30 million for an online school that upskills managers fast

TechCrunch

We talked with Galloway yesterday about who, specifically, Section4 aims to serve, what percentage of its students is outside the U.S., ’ TC: You say Section4 has already taught 10,000 students; when did you start offering your programming? TC: You’re promising students access to top professors like yourself.

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Numerade lands $100M valuation for short-form STEM videos

TechCrunch

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. There are supply and demand mechanics inherent to synchronous tutoring,” Ma said. Student learning from Numerade videos. Image Credits: Numerade.

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Engageli nabs $33M more for its collaborative video-based teaching platform

TechCrunch

Having better tools to teach remotely are critical for situations when the physical experience has to be shut down, but even when things are “back to normal”, better tech can still enhance what educators and students can do, and to whom teaching can be delivered. “Now everyone is much more focused on multi-modality.”

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Prezi is releasing new video features to make virtual teaching more exciting

The Verge

That’s doubly important when trying to keep young students interested in an online class. Surveys have shown that students were less engaged after their courses went remote in the spring. Anything that’s allowing educators to be connected with either the students or the parents or the communities, I think that’s the number-one need.”.

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Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech

TechCrunch

Now, nearly a year since students were first sent home because of the coronavirus, a cohort of edtech companies is emerging, emboldened with millions in venture capital, ready to take back the market. Upon joining the platform, each student is placed at a virtual table with another small group of students.