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Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset for Career Success with SkillPointe
Adopting an entrepreneurial mindset is increasingly essential in today’s diverse professional world. This approach, emphasizing resilience and innovation, is applicable in various careers, encouraging individuals to see opportunities in challenges and to think beyond conventional methods. SkillPointe recognizes the importance of aligning this entrepreneurial spirit with career aspirations. The organization assists individuals in transforming […]
Closing the Skills Gap with Earn and Learn Programs: A New Era in Workforce Training
Faced with a significant workforce training gap, America is seeing a rise in innovative solutions, notably the earn and learn programs. These initiatives are pivotal in addressing the disconnect between available jobs and the skills of the workforce, particularly benefiting those without a four-year college degree. SkillPointe emerges as a key player in this […]
Body Slams and Branding: Breaking Down the Similarities Between Wrestling and B2B
In this episode of Pro AV Today, host Ben Thomas brings together Chris Neto, Jimmy Vaughan, and Dan Vollmayer for a discussion on the parallels between professional wrestling and the world of B2B. This unusual combination reveals significant insights into personal branding and content strategy. Chris Neto, a self-proclaimed wrestling fanboy, discusses how wrestling’s narrative-driven […]
Schools Struggle to Reach Their Education Technology Goals. Here’s Why and How To Fix It.
As we hit the two-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education sector continues to struggle in adjusting to virtual and hybrid education at scale. In 2020, McKinsey estimated that, due to COVID closures and the abrupt transition to online education, kids lost almost 7 months of learning regardless of socioeconomic background, a level of […]
The GSV Cup Elite 200 Announced; Startups Will Compete For $1 Million In Prizes
ASU+GSV Summit, the annual education technology conference hosted by GSV Ventures and Arizona State University, announced today the selection of 200 pre-seed and seed education technology startups as finalists in its annual GSV Cup competition. These companies were selected based on rigorous criteria by a panel of 152 esteemed judges from global venture capital firms and […]
Supers to EdTech Companies: Don’t Call Us, We’ll call you
From this survey published by the National Superintendents Roundtable COVID-19 has unleashed a tsunami of work for school superintendents as they distribute food to students, implement distance learning, and prepare for a different fall school environment. What’s not helping, they say, is a flood of sales calls from technology vendors offering to help. The National […]
3 Big EdTech Deals Of The Week (May 28, 2020)
Top Hat, the leading active learning platform for higher education, announced it is acquiring more than 400 higher education textbook titles published by Nelson, Canada’s largest educational publisher. Top Hat will convert these print-only titles into digital courseware on its platform and infuse them with interactive elements, enabling educators to bring active learning to life […]
Three EdTech Insights To Follow During Quarantine
One advantage to quarantine is some extra time for deep reading. Each successive day there are new ideas and trends being posted on the reinvention of edtech. Rebecca Heilweil reports on issues surrounding remote learning and cheating for Vox: Still, these students’ experiences are another sign that, amid the pandemic, the hurried move to re-create […]
How to Enhance Listening in the Classroom and Why it’s Crucial to Student Success
As technology develops at an exponential rate, experts are racing to harness the power of tech in the classroom. With so many advanced tools at our fingertips, which one will be the key to enhancing student learning? The answer is more simple and surprising than expected. David Solomon, CEO of Lightspeed, talks about technology […]