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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

ED Surge

However, many young children have limited access to high-quality educational opportunities because of socioeconomic factors and technological barriers. Mahajan shares, “Rocket Learning’s mission is to make quality education and learning accessible to every child from the earliest stage possible. Programmatically, we reach about 1.5

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Students Know What They’re Looking for Online. Are Colleges Delivering What They Want?

ED Surge

A recent analysis of federal government data by Jeff Seaman of Bayview Analytics shows that enrollment in on-campus courses fell nearly 11 percent in the past decade and almost 30 percent from 2020 to 2021. Many depend on accessing course resources and lessons seamlessly from online textbooks or other digital resources.

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An Attempt to Demystify the European Accessibility Directives

Magic EdTech

For *Differently abled people the rate of poverty is 70% higher than the average partly due to limited access to education and employment. * In respect of equality, I would like to use Differently abled people in lieu of disabled people. The much-awaited Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 and WCAG 2.1

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Will Banning TikTok Make Kids Safer Online? It’s More Complicated Than That

ED Surge

While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation. While the U.S.

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

ED Surge

Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. Hypothesis 2: Tech-Infused Schools Every classroom and workplace now has reliable access to the internet.

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Do Tech Companies Need To Step Up Their Accessibility Game?

The Innovative Educator

Is accessibility baked into to the development process? Their site says: When you Tweet photos using the Twitter app for iOS or Android, or on twitter.com, you have the option to compose a description of the images so the content is accessible to people who are visually impaired. Twitter has not stepped up its accessibility game.

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deadline uk accessibility laws 30 september

Magic EdTech

Accessible educational content isn’t just a good idea—in many cases, it’s a legal requirement. In the UK, new accessibility laws were passed that require a wide range of customizable features for learners with both physical and cognitive challenges. Lisa Jo Rudy. Who Is Regulated?