Student data privacy is one of the most crucial aspects of educational management. Every school administrator, IT leader, and educator must ensure that student data remains safe. There are specific guidelines that govern how, when, and what student data schools are allowed to share. There are also federal requirements requiring schools to allow parents to […]

EdTech Solution Providers Can Leverage Vonage Video, Voice and SMS Communications APIs to Provide Safe In-App Engagement    Alameda California – June 2, 2021 – Today, Global Grid for Learning (GG4L) , announced its strategic partnership with global business cloud communications leader Vonage to deliver a combined offering – the School Passport platform – to […]

GG4L is proud to help pioneer the effort to make open standards the norm in educational technology. To facilitate this effort, GG4L joined in with other contributing IMS Global members to sign the Standards First pledge. “The Standards First Initiative validates our strategic direction. As an industry collaborative for data exchange between schools and EdTech […]

Students begin sharing data with schools before they are even conscious of the fact. Parents fill out forms to enroll students in school from the minute they begin preschool. Unfortunately, students are often the last to know what information has been shared and the first to be impacted by any kind of breach or cyberattack. […]

Imagine you send your child to school and the information you complete in order for the school to enroll your child is used to track their habits and build a profile on them that allows marketers to target them, not now, but in the future. Would you feel invaded and uncomfortable? There are risks. For […]

Student Data Security is in the News Recently, the Buffalo, New York school district was hit with a cyberattack. They were forced to close schools for the day, but the ramifications of the attack are much more serious. And, Buffalo is only the latest in a string of incidents impacting schools across the nation and […]

According to the World Economic Forum’s Closing the Skills Gap 2020 report, “42% of the skills demand for jobs across all industries will change between 2018 and 2022.” The rapidly transforming skillset that will be in demand within the next few years must be addressed now – and one way to do that is by […]

Schools are supposed to prepare students for the future. But what if your school is trapped in the past? Every year, education trends shift and evolve as schools attempt to provide a better learning experience for students. Your own school has two choices here: to evolve or be left in the past! Wondering what the […]

Teachers and students are headed back to the classroom, but what that looks like varies from school to school. Schools have undergone significant shifts in the delivery of instruction to include virtual, digital and blended learning. What was achieved under extraordinary circumstances last Spring has been refined and reimagined for the start of the school […]