TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Language is first and foremost a social, relational phenomenon,” said Sébastien Dubreil, a teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “It But that’s also not true with learning a language in a university, that’s not true with buying books, that’s not true with any other app.”. Image Credits: Duolingo.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Western Michigan University (WMU) is a large, public research-intensive university that has been helping students reach their potential through a pursuit of purpose since 1903. The post Enhancing Student Success Across Campus with Western Michigan University + Salesforce appeared first on Cloud for Good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. 2) Information Hub.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 29, 2022

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit that recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding leaders who make an initial two-year commitment to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to end educational inequity. Written by Blake Becker.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. million in October to bring digital learning to college universities. Four of the companies that are gaining traction include Class , Engageli , Top Hat and InSpace.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Over a 13-week course called Logic School (delivered free, with support from the Omidyar Network), the school aims to teach tech workers to organize to help identify and rectify structural inequities. The Logic School wants to teach tech workers activism by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Specifically, developers are invited to create their own teaching applications on the Wandelbots platform. The company says it’s also working to bring interoperability to a wider range of systems, a list that currently includes Universal Robots and Yaskawa, powering robots for clients like BMW and VW.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Scholar Program Award to share her expertise at the University of Eswatini. 2023-2024 HBCU Fulbright Award Institutions visualized by Mary Dunaway We spoke to Dr. Dunaway about her impressive career journey, the growing importance of data in today’s society, and how she uses Tableau to teach data skills to students and educators.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Matthew Mendelsohn’s accession to become Yale’s new chief investment officer marks a milestone for the rise of university endowments investing in venture capital. For instance, students at many universities have been pushing endowment leaders to divest from fossil fuels.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

” Also there is a very practical selling point to providing better tools to university classrooms: “People pay those tuitions to have access to professors and other students, and this is a way to provide that in a remote world,” he said. gallery ids="2060568,2060569,2060570"].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The money will be used to get more students into its universe of tools, as well as help Novakid expand into international markets with high populations of speakers who want to learn English. degree or higher, as well as an international teaching certificate such as DELTA, CELTA, TESOL or TEFL.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE , Founder and CEO at The International Social Impact Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, adapting to the digital realm has become a pivotal challenge.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

With most teaching repetitive coding, in a very rigid, instructional way, it tends to appeal more to boys than girls, says EAK. After R&D of two years, it came up with a game designed to teach kids and girls as young as eight skills such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript through highly gamified, story-driven gameplay.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. In addition, the university debuted a new minor in virtual production. And other organizations are using AR/VR itself for educational purposes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

TechCrunch is thrilled to announce Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian is speaking at our Pittsburgh event on June 29. Pittsburgh is a fantastic startup ecosystem quickly growing by leveraging its incredible universities, a welcoming local government and experienced investors. You can register here. The Duolingo EC-1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

CEO and co-founder Vishal Garg was universally criticized for being cold and unfeeling in his approach. It was hardly the first company to lay people off over Zoom during a global pandemic. But it was the manner in which it was handled that offended so many.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Image: University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was drawn to Hawaii partly because of his love of surfing, and in 1966, took a faculty position at the University of Hawai’i (UH) M?noa’s Hawaii helped give Abramson’s seminal project its name: ALOHAnet was created by Abramson and his collaborator Franklin Kuo, while teaching at UH.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Mark explained throughout his four-minute pitch that his company teaches kids Spanish through games and stories. He likened FabuLingua to Prodigy Education’s ultra-popular education product that teaches math through a similar gamification service. The company was founded by Leslie and Mark Bergert.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Also, for university administrators, budgeting meetings require a larger conference room while one-on-one conversations are in private offices. For these different activities, energy needs vary.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 18, 2022

March 11, 2022 [Asheville, NC] – Today Cloud for Good announced Western Michigan University (WMU) as the latest higher education institution partner for the Talent for Good apprenticeship program. About Western Michigan University. million trained workers in the U.S. in just the next 3 years. www.cloud4good.com.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2021

To help us answer some common questions about social enterprise, we talk to TechSoup's Niko Malkovich and Saerin Cho, who are currently teaching Social Enterprise: Innovations in Creating Social Value at the University of San Diego's School of Leadership and Education Sciences ( SOLES ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

Just to give you a few examples: He is a co-founder of Teach a Man to Fish , a global network that promotes “education that pays for itself,” partnering with dozens of organizations around the world to establish self-sufficient schools in rural areas that teach independence and sustainability to young people from poor families.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round for his newest company, Section4 , a platform for business “upskilling” that has now raised $37 million altogether. How do the schools for which they teach feel about this?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Universities have programs on learning how to run social enterprises. Once universities have courses in a subject area, it would seem clear that the term is quite generic. The widespread use of the term “social enterprise” to describe business undertakings that have a socially beneficial component makes the term manifestly generic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Dr. BJ Fogg founded the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University, where he directs research and innovation. In addition, he teaches industry innovators how to use his models and methods in Behavior Design. The purpose of his research and teaching is to help millions of people improve their lives.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

EdSights uses AI chatbots to help colleges and universities identify students who might be at risk of dropping out, in part by increasing student engagement. On average, universities that use EdSights see a 4% increase in student retention, with some citing rates as high as 14%.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Orca mothers teach their babies, and in the film, you can watch the people who knew Tilikum recall the way he cried for his mother when she was taken from him. Different orca groups communicate in different dialects. They let each other know what kind of yummy fish are nearby.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Yuanfudao’s physical footprint, which includes 30,000 employees in teaching centers across China, could fuel its online services. In 2014, it set up an AI Research Institute and technology laboratory with elite schools including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Microsoft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I introduced a framework from Dr. Carol Dweck of Stanford University who has been studying people’s mindsets towards learning for decades. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Following the considerable success the University of Vermont (UVM) found using Salesforce Marketing and Service Cloud to safely and efficiently reopen their campus in the wake of COVID-19’s emergence, UVM once again engaged Cloud for Good to take their Salesforce technology to the next level by expanding their Salesforce usage.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. . Tableau Academic programs help instructors teach data literacy by providing free software and learning resources for students and teachers. Here’s how: .

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Candid

JUNE 17, 2022

From kitchen tables to campuses of Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Juneteenth is well revered in the Black community as an important narrative thread with a rich and complex tapestry. It is not a coincidence that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) came into prominence around the same time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. He holds degrees from Claremont McKenna College, Syracuse University and the University of North Carolina. Marshall won an award for excellence in organization development from the American Society for Training and Development.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. Tableau Academic programs help instructors teach data literacy by providing free software and learning resources for students and teachers.

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Tableau

JUNE 16, 2021

Universities have a great opportunity to bridge this gap. Instructors at accredited institutions can request a free Tableau for Teaching license for instructional use or noncommercial academic research. . Instructors gain access to our curricula—which can be tailored as desired—after approval of their Tableau for Teaching license.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Those experiences not only informed my teaching, but it became a personal passion to bring foundational data skills to all. Both courses are designed to cover a typical ten-week course (one quarter) at an accredited university. Without closing the data skills gap, these challenges would continue into their professional lives.

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