Analyzing ROI Helps IT Leaders Make Decisions Ahead of the Funding Cliff

October 6, 2022

The coming years are set to see a slowdown — if not an outright stop — in the emergency government funding that supported many K–12 school districts throughout the pandemic and beyond. The technology solutions districts purchased and relied on during that time, notably subscription-based software applications, now present a problem: The money will stop, but subscription fees won’t.
The result is that K–12 district leaders are facing a funding cliff. “Come the 2024-2025 school year, a combination of declining enrollments, stimulus funding running out and an economic downturn could lead to a…

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Uses for Audiovisual Technology Beyond Remote Learning

K–12 school districts invested in many remote learning devices for teachers and students to ensure continued education during the pandemic. Districts rolled out one-to-one device…

June 6, 2022

Meta is letting select Instagram US creators test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won’t charge fees until 2024 (Kate Irwin/Decrypt)

Kate Irwin / Decrypt:
Meta is letting select Instagram US creators test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won’t charge fees until 2024 — Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”

November 2, 2022

Everything we know about FTX’s collapse: losses are likely >$15B, trades became increasingly risky, SBF was erratic, rash, and relied on stimulants, and more (Milky Eggs)

Milky Eggs:
Everything we know about FTX’s collapse: losses are likely >$15B, trades became increasingly risky, SBF was erratic, rash, and relied on stimulants, and more — If you want to read a poorly researched fluff piece about Sam Bankman-Fried, feel free to go to the New York Times (PDF).

November 16, 2022

An Australian court fined Uber A$21M for threatening cancellation fees it never charged and overstating fare estimates on some rides; ACCC sought a A$26M fine (Byron Kaye/Reuters)

Byron Kaye / Reuters:
An Australian court fined Uber A$21M for threatening cancellation fees it never charged and overstating fare estimates on some rides; ACCC sought a A$26M fine — An Australian court fined Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) A$21 million ($14 million) on Wednesday for threatening cancellation fees …

December 7, 2022

How to Measure ROI to Show the Value of Ed Tech Purchases

Educational technology investments in K–12 are soaring to new heights, putting millions of dollars into the hands of district administrators. However, it’s not always easy for IT leaders to use quantitative methods to analyze the return on ed tech investments.
With our 85-plus years of combined experience in purchasing millions of dollars of technology, we recommend fellow school technology leaders use more creative ways to measure ROI, or what we call “return on instruction.” We define return on instruction as a results-based process that both quantitatively and qualitatively measures the…

November 18, 2022

New York-based Carbyne, which offers cloud-based tools for emergency services, raised a $56M Series C led by Cox Enterprises and Hanaco at a $400M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
New York-based Carbyne, which offers cloud-based tools for emergency services, raised a $56M Series C led by Cox Enterprises and Hanaco at a $400M valuation — Emergency services, long run on legacy platforms, are now getting a big boost of technology, and today one of the bigger players …

September 7, 2022

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