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COMMITTED TO IMPROVING PUBLIC EDUCATION EdTec is a social enterprise committed to improving public education by supporting charter schools with business, operations, and performance services. What is the definition of EdTech? EdTech, or education technology encompasses everything from the simple use of computers to teach maths and reading to children in elementary schools by Stanford University professors in the Sixties, to the submission of homework online, entire online degree platforms, informal mobile learning applications, gamification or virtual reality techniques. As edtech giants accelerate integrations and partnerships, the learning continues. INTERVIEW by Victor Rivero New integrations between SMART Technologies, Read More. Photo by Julia M Cameron from Pexels. Pandemic education made clear the need for learning platforms that reliably support rich in-person and remote learning experiences.
Catalyzing an edtech movement
to expand reach and impact of adult and youth education
The EdTech Center @ World Education leverages technology to increase the reach and impact of education and workforce initiatives and to enable everyone to thrive and be active, informed citizens in the new digital world. We work with partners to accelerate learning, digital literacy, college and career readiness and economic mobility. Together we are catalyzing an edtech movement that puts the needs of learners and instructors first. Join us now!
Professional Development
Online and in-person training to share best practices and foster edtech leadership
Research & Evaluation
Research, identification, and testing of new tools, emerging best practices, and delivery models
Edtech Companies
Innovation
Meeting learners’ needs in partnership with tech developers and education and community organizations
Edtech Mayo
Advocacy
Ed Tech Certification Maine
Education on the power of technology for adult learning and advocacy for greater Internet and technology access
What’s New
Our latest projects, professional development resources, and blog posts
The Transforming Distance Education course is now live on our site! The free and open course offers four learning modules developed by the EdTech Center @ World Education with support from the US Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education (OCTAE) to provide timely, high-quality professional development on distance and blended learning.
The EdTech Center @ World Education has partnered with Adobe and Readability Matters to bring you this webinar on readability in digital texts and literacy. We’ll introduce readability and why it matters and share promising tools for supporting enhanced, personalized readability in digital texts for learners. We’ll also show examples of how you can use these tools with content and articles from The Change Agent. Register here.
New Report: Leveraging Technology to Increase Opportunity