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Magic Software is an education technology company that partners with the world's leading publishers, universities, educational and training companies to build next-generation digital learning products, for all devices, for an international audience.

Create Email Newsletter That Users Actually Read. By crux creative solutions October 23, 2019 Email marketing is impressive, killer and always works.

Create Email Newsletter That Users Actually Read

If your business is not already using this great platform, it needs to. As soon as possible! Digital marketing space has changed rapidly since smartphones started dominating the market. Power of Digital Learning - Through the use of digital learning product and solutions. Prateeksha Dutt February 14, 2019 In the 21st century, the term “digital learning” means much more than simply accessing information on a computer.

Power of Digital Learning - Through the use of digital learning product and solutions

Ensuring Quality Through the Software Development Lifecycle. Kimberly Hulbert November 27, 2019 Techopedia , a popular digital news portal, defines quality assurance as “a process that ensures that developed software meets and complies with defined or standardized quality specifications.

Ensuring Quality Through the Software Development Lifecycle

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is an ongoing process within the software development life cycle (SDLC) that routinely checks the developed software to ensure it meets desired quality measures.”For a successful digital transformation of any organization, it is of utmost importance that there is sufficient emphasis on quality assurance. Quality Assurance or QA is primarily focused on the prevention of defects. It ensures that the right techniques, approaches, and methods are being implemented. This also includes performance and source code quality testing, as well as functional testing. Activate the Braincells Through the Art of Storytelling. The Right Assistive Technology Can Maximize Accessibility for People with Auditory Impairment. Tarveen Kaur November 12, 2019 World Health Organization estimates that there are approximately 466 million individuals across the world with some form of hearing loss, of which 34 million are children.

The Right Assistive Technology Can Maximize Accessibility for People with Auditory Impairment

If this figure is surprising, the prediction that there could be a whopping 900 million people worldwide with hearing loss by 2050 will be devastating. Boost Your Business By Publishing Accessible Web Content. Kimberly Hulbert November 8, 2019 In today’s web publishing world, accessibility is becoming a requirement.

Boost Your Business By Publishing Accessible Web Content

This is especially true in the educational publishing world which caters to students with a wide range of physical and cognitive needs. How AI is Making Assistive Technologies More Powerful. Girijesh Tripathi October 30, 2019 You might be surprised to learn that the telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, was a result of his work with the deaf community.

How AI is Making Assistive Technologies More Powerful

Bell’s mother was deaf. If we are to believe the statistics published by the World Bank , almost a billion people around the world suffer from some type of significant disability. Teachers Need the Right Tools for Students of the Digital Era. Dedicated and enthusiastic teachers play a significant role in shaping the lives of our future generations.

Teachers Need the Right Tools for Students of the Digital Era

They have done so through the years, despite significant challenges. Although technology has disrupted practically every sphere of our lives, it has been late to make its mark on the education sector, leaving teachers at the mercy of antiquated instruction methods.But, teachers from different grade levels are increasingly realizing the benefits of technology in the classroom. In 2017, over 63% of K-12 educators were using technology in classrooms daily, according to a survey by the University Of Phoenix College of Education.

A Balancing Act: Using Student- and Teacher Centered Approaches. Kimberly Hulbert October 14, 2019 Critics of contemporary education complain that school systems no longer meet the needs of the 21st century.

A Balancing Act: Using Student- and Teacher Centered Approaches

One of their biggest criticisms is that the paradigm needs to change from teacher-directed instruction to student-centered instruction. Top 10 Benefits of Hiring an Offshore Development Team. Kimberly Hulbert October 7, 2019 “If you deprive yourself of offshore development and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.”These are the famous words spoken by the late Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore in the 1990s.

Top 10 Benefits of Hiring an Offshore Development Team

Back then, offshore hiring was an absurd concept. Today, however, it is a significant strategy adopted by businesses to drive down operating costs while gaining access to quality talent from around the world. Silver - Looking Towards the Future of WCAG 2.1. Girijesh Tripathi October 1, 2019 In 2016, advances in technological innovation and assistive technologies and a deeper understanding of the needs of people with disabilities drove the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) to authorizeSilver, the temporary name assigned to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0.

Silver - Looking Towards the Future of WCAG 2.1

Silver will address two major issues: “The process of making content and functionality accessible to people with disabilities, including the roles of content authoring, user agent support, and authoring tool support” “current technological and cultural web accessibility requirements” (WC3 WAI) A Brief History The WC3 is responsible for developing international standards for the World Wide Web and its accessibility to people with disabilities. Silver Goals. Types of Digital Technology and Possibilities in EdTech. Kimberly Hulbert September 23, 2019 In the past, learners took in information through books and lectures. Presentations and texts started at the beginning of a theme or topic and proceeded in a linear fashion to the end. Teachers who wanted to enrich the learning experience led real-time live discussions, labs, or other forms of interactive collaboration.

Content Authoring Tools For Digital-First Publishing. Arvinder Sharma September 11, 2019 In our first blog on the evolution of digital first publishing Publishing Success with Digital First Publishing, we discussed how the publishing industry led by decreased sales in education textbooks initially adopted a general digital first workflow. This second blog will discuss how technology entrepreneurs facilitated the implementation and reach of the workflow. Publishers have a number of entrepreneurial solutions to increase their effectiveness in the digital publishing environment. Several are listed below to demonstrate the depth and breadth of their offerings. Maximize Learning Benefits for People Suffering from Dyslexia with Accessible Content.

Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability, characterized by difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition, spelling and decoding reading. Dyslexic learners need support, and technology can go a long way in making content more accessible and learner friendly. Understanding Dyslexia Language-based learning disabilities (LBLD) are fairly common, given that one in five American students are likely to experience language-learning disability, who find it hard to communicate.

The term includes a whole range of conditions, such as Dyscalculia, auditory processing disorders, psychomotor difficulties and Dyslexia. Mayo Clinic defines dyslexia as a learning disorder that involves difficulty in reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words (decoding). Creating Solutions for Dyslexic Thinking. Digital Adoption and its Impact in the EdTech Industry. Kimberly Hulbert August 27, 2019 Digital technology adoption is the process of accepting new digital technology into our personal or business lives.

There are five types of technology adopters; each type says “yes” to new digital technology at a different speed. The “innovators” are the inventors—those individuals and organizations that actually conceive of and create new digital technologies. Infusing Games in Learning: Key Advantages. Make Reading Accessible To All With Our EBook Conversion Services- Magic EdTech.

How Accessible is Accessible Learning Today? 6 Killer Ways in Which AR/VR Can Change Chemistry Lessons - By Magic Edtech. MagicBox Solves a Common Publishing Challenge to Deliver Content in Multiple Formats. Possibilities and Limits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Ed. Artificial intelligence is here to stay. It’s having a profound impact on education, and that impact will almost certainly expand over time. Magic EdTech - Custom Digital Learning Products & Solutions for K-12/Higher Education, Corporates.