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Two ed-tech companies team up with hopes to improve transfer

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Meanwhile, fewer than a quarter of colleges and universities share transcripts with each other electronically, according to a 2021 report by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO). Transfer students, on average, lose 43 percent of their credits, the U.S. “Tuition wasn’t cheap.

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IEEE Life Member

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers sent me an IEEE Life Member certificate in the mail. With this comes free lifetime membership. At first I thought this a scam, as it is unexpected.

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Disabilities and edtech: How the pandemic sparked a revolution

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This allowed him to have more effective meetings where it was easy for him to electronically take notes or have an example shared on a screen at extra-large resolution that enabled him to understand and share in the specific topic better.” “He found that during the COVID lockdowns his one-on-one advisor meetings were held on Zoom or Teams.